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$ñCT.
I V.1
IN REGARD
TO
OURSELVES.
497
ing
consequences
;
thou
wilt
bear
the cross
incidents
of
life without the
ruffle
and disturbance of
thy
own
inward
powers,
without
the
pain and
terror
of
thy kindred and
friends,
and without
giving
half
the
street
notice
of
thy
folly.
But,
"
strange doctrine
is
this," saith the
master
of
the house,
"
must
X
not
ktear
rule
in
my own
family
?
Must
I
not
be
heard;"
says
the
mistress,
"
and obeyed
by
my own
servants
?
Must
nof the
authority
of
a father
appear
among
his
childklzen,,%nd
the
mother demand due
honour
?"
Yes
by
all
means
:
And
the
superior charac-
ter
should always
appear
and shine bright
before
the
household
in the wisdom
of
the
command
or reproof,
and not
by
the loud and
haughty
words or
the
terrible
airs
of
the reprover.
The
authority
of
a parent
or
a
master
has
but a poor
support
where
it
is
maintained
with such
unreasonable and
noisy
resentments.
Thus
far concerning wrath and tyranny
of
the
violent
and sonorous kind
:
But pride and humour
in some
com-
plexions have their private and
sullen airs, as
well
as
in
others the sounding and
the clamorous
ones.
The soul
may
be
full
of
self
and the man an
intolerable
humourist,
and
yet never shake the
house,
or
affright the neigh-
bourhood.
Should
you happen
to cross
his will
in
a
trifling instance, he puts on
a sudden
gloom
of counte-
nance and
assumes
a forbidding
brow
without a
single
word
from
his
lips
;
and
sometimes
it
is
hard
to
know
what
has
offended
him.
Here
the haughty and
the
sullen
humours
mingle
their cursed
influences
;
the
soul
is
like
a
prisoner
in
majesty, the wretch
stalks
about
in
dark
resentment
and supercilious
silence: a short and
dis-
dainful sentence
full
of
spite and
rancour
and
fire
shall
break
out at
certain intervals and
give
notice
of
the hell
within.
The
proud
wrath which
is
pent up
in the bosom
as in a close
and
boiling furnace,
must
have time
to
vent
itself
by slow
degrees
;
in a day
or
two,
or
sometimes
more, perhaps the ferment
may subside,
and the man
return
to his speech again,
and
to
his
'hours
of
business,
of
food and rest.
But after
all
the poisonous leaven
is
left
still
within,
and
waits only
for
some
new
occasion
to
heave and
swell
and raise
à
fresh
disturbance.
I
name
the
man
only in this
cursed and hateful character,
if
the
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