Ascending HonorFor honour, worthily obtain’d (as for Example that of our Officers), is in its Nature a personal Thing, and incommunicable to any but...
Influence of Society on ChildrenThey grow up in litters; if they put a foot on the ground, they are held up by helping hands on either side. We like it if they say...
Praying for childrenCertain parents were sacrificing to the gods, that a son might be born to them. “But,” said he, “do you not sacrifice to ensure what...
Good FatherAgesilaus (King of Sparta) was excessively fond of his children; and it is to him the story belongs, that when they were little ones, he...
Persian fatherhoodNext to prowess in arms, it is regarded as the greatest proof of manly excellence, to be the father of many sons. Every year the king...
A powerful childThemistocles: Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and, by his mother’s means, his father also, to indulge him, he told him that...
Passing on the faithIn ancient Sparta: There were also vaunts of what they would do, and boasts of what they had done, varying with the various ages, as, for...