. Thackerayana;. THE tatler: 245 It is observed by all the charitable society, as an instruction intheir epistles, that they tell people of nothing but what is in theirpower to mend. I shall give another instance of this way ofwriting : two sisters in Essex Street are eternally gaping out of thewindow, as if they knew not the value of time, or would call incompanions. Upon which I writ the following line :— 1 Dear Creatures,—On the receipt of this, shut your casements. But I went by yesterday, and found them still at the can a man do in this case, but go in and wrap himself up inhi
. Thackerayana;. THE tatler: 245 It is observed by all the charitable society, as an instruction intheir epistles, that they tell people of nothing but what is in theirpower to mend. I shall give another instance of this way ofwriting : two sisters in Essex Street are eternally gaping out of thewindow, as if they knew not the value of time, or would call incompanions. Upon which I writ the following line :— 1 Dear Creatures,—On the receipt of this, shut your casements. But I went by yesterday, and found them still at the can a man do in this case, but go in and wrap himself up inhis own integrity, with satisfaction only in this melancholy truth,that virtue is its own reward ; and that if no one is the better forhis admonitions, yet he is himself the more virtuous, in that hegave those advices ? No. 79. The Tatler.—Oct. 11, 1709. Mr. Bicker staffs sister Jenny is going to be married. The Tatler tells the following anecdote, as a warning to be abovetrifles :— This, dear Jenny, is the
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