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572 Housebuilding and Housekeeping .
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( Contiitued from p . 494 . ) It is written somewhere , I think in the ' Spectator / odd volumes of which the society for the confusion of political knowledge recommend poor men to purchase at book-stalls ; it is written that a gentleman once overheard a porter wishing he had five hundred pounds , and thereupon told him that he would give him five
hundred pounds if he would tell him the uses he would apply it to . The porter declared he would instantly leave off work-and enjoy himself , describing the meals he would have of boiled beef and greens for dinner , and a welch rabbit for supper . After some discussion , the gentleman told him that his time would hang
heavy on his hands , as he would have nothing to do but eat and walk about . The porter agreed to it , and at last concluded that lie was better without the five hundred pounds , and , by merely following his occupation , could do all that riches would enable him to do , and employ his time into the bargain , agreeably enough according to his own taste .
The story contains a moral which most of those on the ravenous hunt after riches may well appl y to themselves . All the world is anxious * to make a fortune and retire . ' After spending a life in acquiring the fortune , those who are successful find at last that fortune-making and not fortune-enjoy ing is the only thing for which they have a zest ; that they might have enjoyed all that
they had a taste for , just as well without the fortune as with it . Outshining their neighbours in ostentation is the great aim of the indwellers of this most aristocratric land , hungering with an insatiable appetite after something which they have not got , and never making the most of that which they actually possess . To such people , who are not capable of applying the moral of the story , I do not write . I merely aim at pointing out to those who
can appreciate quiet , comfort , and leisure , the means of attaining them with less expense of time and money than has yet been practised .
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Round thee wild winds liowl , Dashing thee to earth , Where thy tranquil soul , With unalter'd mirth , Gleams—as in our fierce world , sweet innocence and worth Thro * the tempest loud Thou dost calmly pierce , From the perfumed shroud Which thy beams immerse , — As thro * the storms of time the poet ' s balmy verse .
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HOUSEBUILDING AND HOUSEKEEPING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/42/
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