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& seek their comfort & happiness in all respects. They are bound to conform themselves to the rules & regulations of their father's family - to bear their proportion of labor in provid.g for the support of the family, & when their parents become helpless by age or infirmity, to provide for them, - to strive to make their condition as comfortable as may be, by kind & tender behaviour & dutiful expressions; to bear with their pevishness, their roughness - their unfashionable behaviour & their Words & ways, however they may be contrary to children's taste & notions. | & seek their comfort & happiness in all respects. They are bound to conform themselves to the rules & regulations of their father's family - to bear their proportion of labor in provid.g for the support of the family, & when their parents become helpless by age or infirmity, to provide for them, - to strive to make their condition as comfortable as may be, by kind & tender behaviour & dutiful expressions; to bear with their pevishness, their roughness - their unfashionable behaviour & their Words & ways, however they may be contrary to children's taste & notions. | ||
A principle of gratitude for kindnesses recd from parents, binds children to fulfil these duties to their parents. Those infirmities that frequently attend old age, children above all others, are bound to bear with meekness & patience. If aged infirm & helpless parents find not that indulgence from their children, which their condition & comfort require, they cannot expect to find it from any others. | A principle of gratitude for kindnesses recd from parents, binds children to fulfil these duties to their parents. Those infirmities that frequently attend old age, children above all others, are bound to bear with meekness & patience. If aged infirm & helpless parents find not that indulgence from their children, which their condition & comfort require, they cannot expect to find it from any others. | ||
There is in general among children, that natural gratitude & affection in children towards their parents, that prompts them to help, comfort & support them in old age. Those who treat their helpless parents with neglect & disrespect & see them suffer without a disposition to afford them relief are condemned by the World as void of every good principle, - as violators of the lats of nature - humanity & gratitude, - as brute beasts in human shape. | |||
Filial piety, is seen in the most amiable light, | |||
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147 & seek their comfort & happiness in all respects. They are bound to conform themselves to the rules & regulations of their father's family - to bear their proportion of labor in provid.g for the support of the family, & when their parents become helpless by age or infirmity, to provide for them, - to strive to make their condition as comfortable as may be, by kind & tender behaviour & dutiful expressions; to bear with their pevishness, their roughness - their unfashionable behaviour & their Words & ways, however they may be contrary to children's taste & notions.
A principle of gratitude for kindnesses recd from parents, binds children to fulfil these duties to their parents. Those infirmities that frequently attend old age, children above all others, are bound to bear with meekness & patience. If aged infirm & helpless parents find not that indulgence from their children, which their condition & comfort require, they cannot expect to find it from any others. There is in general among children, that natural gratitude & affection in children towards their parents, that prompts them to help, comfort & support them in old age. Those who treat their helpless parents with neglect & disrespect & see them suffer without a disposition to afford them relief are condemned by the World as void of every good principle, - as violators of the lats of nature - humanity & gratitude, - as brute beasts in human shape. Filial piety, is seen in the most amiable light,