. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. man of superior intel-lect, and received a good education. His large and indis-creet Benevolence, however, was his principal failing. Ifhe had married a person with equally large Benevolence,they would have squandered all their property, and wouldhave been thrown upon the charities of others for a sup-port. They would have been wanting in energy and econ-omy, without which no family can prosper; and their chil-dren would never would have accomplish
. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. man of superior intel-lect, and received a good education. His large and indis-creet Benevolence, however, was his principal failing. Ifhe had married a person with equally large Benevolence,they would have squandered all their property, and wouldhave been thrown upon the charities of others for a sup-port. They would have been wanting in energy and econ-omy, without which no family can prosper; and their chil-dren would never would have accomplished much in theworld, but would have been so good, as to be good fornothing. But, if the wife possessed more of the ener-getic qualities, more decision, of charater, and less disin-terestedness of feeling, then she would be a gentle checkto his sympathies, a spur to his energy and economy, andwould do for him, as did a woman for her husband, liv-ing in P. He gave her twenty dollars per week, to meet Note. For further particulars in relation to the three cuts above, see Phre-nological Almanac for 1847. IMPORTANT GOTTFRIED. 209. No. 32. their family expenses ; but she, knowing his prodigalityand liability to lose all his property, saved ten dollarsevery week, and continued to do so year after year. Even-tually, (as she expected,) he failed, greatly in debt, andwould have been obliged to sacrifice all his property, tomeet the demands of his creditors, had not his wife, like agood angel, ministering to him in the hour of his distress,referred him to the Bible for consolation, (a book that hadbeen heretofore sealed to him,) on opening which, to hisgreat surprise, he found as many ten dollar bills betweenthe various leaves, as they had been married weeks: enoughto satisfy all his creditors, and to enable him to start againin business. Cuts 32 and 33, are correct outlines of a woman, whose his-tory is given below. As a young lady she was fair, very social,entertaining,
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