The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
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33. A young woman observing that this officer, who conducted the happy to _Elysium_, was so great a _beautifier_, longed to be in his hands, so that, pressing through the croud, she was the next that appeared at the bar, and being asked what she had been doing the five and twenty years that she had passed in the world, I have endeavoured, says she, ever since I came to the years of discretion, to make myself lovely, and gain admirers. 34. In order to do it I past my time in bottling up Maydew, inventing white-washes, mixing colours, cutting out patches, consulting my glass, suiting my complexion, tearing off my tucker, sinking my stays--_Rhadamanthus_, without hearing her out, gave the sign to take her off. Upon the approach of the keeper of _Erebus_ her colour faded, her face was puckered up with wrinkles, and her whole person lost in deformity. 35. I was then surprised with a distant sound of a whole troop of females that came forward laughing, singing, and dancing. I was very desirous to know the reception they would meet with, and withal was very apprehensive that _Rhadamanthus_ would spoil their mirth; but at their nearer approach the noise grew so very great that it awakened me. 36. Employment of time is a subject that, from its importance, deserves your best attention. Most young gentlemen have a great deal of time before them, and one hour well employed, in the early part of life, is more valuable and will be of greater use to you, than perhaps four and twenty, some years to come. 37. What ever time you can steal from company and from the study of the |
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