Complete Letter Writer; Containig a Great Variety of Letters on the Following Subjects: Relationship, Business, Love, Courtship and Marriage, Friendship, and Miscellaneous Letters, Law Forms, Etc

Marion & Hitchcock, 1853

Índice

• Fioni a young lad at a boarding school in the cc antry to his brother an apprentice in New York: 1
• The brothers answer: 2
• From a young miss to her parents: 4
• From a young miss to her brother in the country: 5
• Answer to the preceding: 6
• From a brother to a sister in the country upbraiding her for be ing negligent in writing: 7
• From the daughter to the mother in excuse for her neglect: 8
• From a father to his son at school: 9
• From a youth at school to his father: 10
• From an elder to a younger brother at school: 11
• From an apprentice to his father in praise of his master and family: 12
• From a lad to his mother during his apprenticeship: 13
• From a young lady to her mother: 15
• The fathers answer: 16
• The fathers letter to the master: 18
• From a mother in town to a daughter at school in the country ib recommending the practice of virtue: 19
• Let Page: 20
• The answer: 22
• From a young gentleman clerk to a merchant in town to his father in the country soliciting pocket money: 23
• The fathers answer: 25
• The fathers answer: 27
• The mothers answer: 28
• From an uncle to his nephew an apprentice on his keeping cad company bad hours c: 30
• Let Pagc 68 The tradesmans reply: 33
• From a daughter to a father wherein she dutifully expostulates: 48
• 104 The brothers answer: 54
• From a young man whose master had lately died 34: 55
• The answer 36: 62
• From a tradesman unable to honor ois acceptance to a merchant: 69
• From a merchant to a tradesman demanding money and ex pressing disapprobation of his proceedings 39: 70
• The answer: 71
• To a person who wants to borrow money of another without any claim but assurance 40: 72
• Refusal to lend money 41: 74
• From a teuant to a landlord excusing delay of payment: 75
• The answer: 76
• From an insolvent debtor to his principal creditor requesting the acceptance of a composition: 77
• The answer: 78
• From a tradesman to a wholesale dealer to delay payment of a sum of money 43: 79
• The answer: 80
• From a mother to her son on the same subject ib 82 From a father to a son on his negligence in his affairs 19: 81
• From a father to his daughters on courtship and coquettish: 82
• The gentlemans answer 44: 83
• The masters answer 45: 85
• The answer: 86
• From a country storekeeper to his friend in New York desir ing him to send him some goods 46: 87
• The answer: 88
• From a country storekeeper to a merchant in NewYork com plaining of the badness of his goods: 89
• The answer: 90
• Fron a tradesman in distressed circumstances desiring a letter of license: 91
• The answer ib PART III LOVE COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE: 92
• From a young gentleman to a lady witı whom he is in love 48: 94
• The gentlemans reply 49: 96
• The young ladys answer 50: 99
• The young gentlemans answer: 100
• From the lady after marriage to an unmarried cousin 52: 102
• The ladys letiter to her brother an attorney concerning the above: 103
• From the lady to Mr Morten: 105
• From a young gentleman in expectation of ar estate from a penurious uncle to a young lady of small fortune desiring 55: 106
• The ladys prudent answer: 107
• From a young officer to a lady with whom he is in love: 108
• The officers letter to the ladys father: 109
• The young ladys letter to her lover: 110
• The fathers answer to the young gentleman: 111
• From a young man just out of his apprenticeship to his sweet heart in the neighborhood 59: 112
• The answer: 113
• The Bishop of Rochester to Mr Pope: 115
• Let Page: 118
• From the gentleman 60: 119
• From a lorer to his mistress lately recovered from sickness: 120
• From a rich young gentleman to a beautiful young lady with no fortune 66: 121
• The young ladys answer: 122
• The gentlemans reply: 123
• The ladys rejoinder: 124
• From a lady to a gentleman complaining of indifference: 125
• The gentlemans reply: 126
• From a young officer ordered to his regiment in Minorca to a young lady whom he had courted: 127
• The ladys answer 70: 129
• The answer 72: 131
• The mothers answer: 132
• From a young tradesman to a gentleman desiring permission to visit his daughter: 133
• From the saine to the young lady by permission of her father 74: 135
• From a young lady to a gentleman that courted her whom she could not esteem but forced by her parents to receive his visits: 136
• hèr acquainting hiin with an offer made to her of marriage 75: 137
• The answer: 138
• From Mr Smith to the young ladys father 76: 140
• The ladys answer 77: 143

Passagens conhecidas

Página 112 - We thus enter the bowers of ease, and repose in the shades of security. Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure; we approach them with scruple...

Página 138 - And to quit and deliver up the premises to the lessor, or its attorney, peaceably and quietly, at the end of the term, in as good order and condition, reasonable use and wearing thereof, fire and other unavoidable casualties excepted, as the same now are...

Página 136 - He shall not waste the goods of his said Master nor lend them unlawfully to any...

Página 115 - As for you, my good friend, I think, since our first acquaintance, there have not been any of those little suspicions or jealousies that often affect the sincerest friendships; I am sure not on my side. I must be so sincere as to own that, though I could not help...

Página 137 - Massachusetts, yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey to the said...

Página 113 - We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.

Página 128 - Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Página 113 - ... yet remains one effort to be made; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavors ever unassisted, that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose, commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence, and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.

Página 32 - I rather advise might be by a new gift and creation from himself, than by any other means, to the end you may pay the thanks to him without having obligation to any other.

Página 112 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: Complete Letter Writer; Containig a Great Variety of Letters on the Following Subjects: Relationship, Business, Love, Courtship and Marriage, Friendship, and Miscellaneous Letters, Law Forms, Etc; By Carrie Carlton, ps for Eliz.Chamberlain
• Editora: Marion & Hitchcock, 1853
• Original de: Universidade da Califórnia
• Digitalizado: 7 Dez 2007