CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN: LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK. "RICH AND OF DEVICEFUL THREAD."-Chapm 270. g. 741. By love serve one another. If thou wouldst keep from disorder, PREFACE. Book of Good Deuites may very reasonably demand attention and acceptance from those that have any impressions of the most reasonable religion upon them." So wrote Dr. Cotton Mather, in his famous "Essays to do Good," which were so highly spoken of by Benjamin Franklin. The idea of the present volume was suggested by this remark; and in it the Editor has endeavoured to gather together, for the guidance and edification of youth, the opinions and experiences of eminent men, esteemed for their piety, patriotism, and wisdom, or famed for their commercial success and practical knowledge of every-day life. The object of the Editor has been to select such passages from the writings of the authors here Curb thy desires. Commit thy way unto the Lord. |