Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The Moral Entertainer.

Detached THOUGHTS.

HUMILITY

if she be not their mother she is their nurse; and if she be not pompous enough to serve them for an ornament, she is courageous enough to serve them for a defence.

It is a strange thing, but withal exceedingly true, that of all the virtues there is none more natural, nor yet a greater stranger to man than humility; for she is born with him. He carries the principles thereof in his soul and in his body; in that the one is drawn out of nothing, the other is formed out of the earth. He must forget his extraction to give the least admittance to pride; and he need only study himself to be sensibly affected with humility. Of a happy necessity she makes an excellent virtue; and profiting by her miseries; grows great by diminution; for glory is the portion of humility. She cannot shun that honour she flies from, and that which seems to threaten her ruin, becomes at last her recompense.

Whatsoever you yield to the importunity of a suitor, in the way of marriage, before you are married, will be the subject of your disgrace; and when he shall have wedded you, should you live as chaste as Susanna, he will continually imagine you will be liberal to others, of that whereof you was so prodigal to him.

Neither choose all, nor not at all for beauty. A cried up beauty makes more for her own praise, than her husband's profit. Let there be no great disproportion in age:--They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves; in hope that one will come, and cut the halter.