The economy of human life / [Anon.] By Robert Dodsley.

  • Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.
Date:
1797
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Credit: The economy of human life / [Anon.] By Robert Dodsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee: aN Economy of Human Lite, LLL LLL BOOK I. Duties that relate to Man, considered as an In- dividual. I. CONSIDERATION. Commune with thyself, o man, and consider wherefore thou wert made. Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be direc- ted in all thy ways. Proceed not to speak or to act, before thou hast weighed thy words, and examin- ed the tendency of every step thou shalt take: so shall disgrace fly far from thee, and in thy house shall shame _ be astranger; repentance shall not visit thee, nor sor- row dwell upon thy cheek. The thoughtless man bridleth not his tongue; he speaketh at random, and is entangled in the foolishness of his own words. As one that runneth in haste, and leapeth over a fence, may fall into a pit on the other side which he doth not see; so is the man that plungeth suddenly