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    by her father to carry up stairs to a visitor same of his clothes , which had been sent down to be brushed . Somehow or other this child had got it into her head that there was indelicacy in doing this ; and her resentment against her father for requiring

    this degradation ot her was most strangely strong and bitter . Indeed her grief that her father should desire her to do a wrong thing was so much the deepest feeling she had , that , at this distance of time , it is the only one which remains ; it has so entirely overpowered the feeling which she must have had according to

    the result of the contest , that she even forgets what the result was . It is most probable she was conquered ; and it is very certain that she was severely and long punished during her resistance . To be very careful not to tax a child unjustly with obstinacy , to be very careful not to engender it by ill-advised

    demands , and to be content , when it exists , to let it melt away gradually under the influence of growing affection and sympathy ; such should be the course adopted towards the obstinate . Nor should one ever lose sight of the fact , that all wrong is but excess of good , and that that which , under the name of obstinacy , looks so hideous , springs from the very principle of our nature , which , well directed , we should all venerate under a thousand lovely shapes , such as firmness , fortitude , liberty , decision , &c « &c .

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    A LONDON SUNDAY .

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    A London Sunday * 501

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    Sunday , if Sir Andrew Agnew would let him alone , is a sober , decent , well-behaved day enough : I have my doubts whether

    Monday would dare to show his face before him , and invite a comparison between them . Even Saturday , who prides himself on his exceeding cleanliness—his rubbings and scrubbings , his domestic providence , his marketings , his carrying home this , and ordering home the other , &c . &c . might ' hide his diminished head * in his presence . Friday is , we know , superstitious , abstinent from meat , and addicted to salt fish ajad thirst , which induces him to go too often to the ale-barrel , and sends him to bed not quite so sober as he should be—so that what he saves of sin

    in meat he loses in sin in malt ; Thursday is of pretty indifferent character ; Wednesday intolerant also of beef and mutton ; and Tuesday is notoriously employed in putting such things to rights in his

    ^ Monday dissipation threw into disorder , —in holding-up his sick head , —and in making mutton-broth for his queasy , debauched stomach . Do not , then , dear , decent Sunday , be persuaded 1 o think yourself worse than you are ; but show your cheerful , shining face , and though a million of Agnews speak ill ° fyou , and charge you with this and that , heed them * not a jot , ' W put on your best ' bib and tucker , ' as usual ; go to church in the morning , as ditto }—in the afternoon , too , if you like to do so ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/31/