F. Family, the care of it is the wife's part, 235. Should be the epitome of a church, 236. Practice of re ligion to be obferved there, 237. The bigger the worse, 240. Should be inflructed in religious prin ciples, 264. Family prayer, the duty of it, 262; and of family religion, ibid. Fancy in the cafe of marriage muft yield to obedience, 19. in widows must be reftrained, 235. Father, when he forfeits his right to relief from his fon, 23. Favorinus the philofopher, his advice to mothers to nurse their children, 117. Fear, children not to be governed by it, 197. Feet of children to be washed in cold water, 172. Of Chinese women, how little, 177. Fidelity, the extent of this duty towards wives, 60. Flattery of fervants fpoils children, 215; and their prefents, 216. Fondness of parents ruins their children, 118, 119. Foolish husband, when the wife may have an advantage by it, 80, 81. Fortune, how careful the wife fhould be of the huf band's, 63. Friend, neceffary qualities of one for a wife, 69. Friends, (hufband's) how the wife fhould carry herfelf to them, 82. Friendship, a duty of wives, as well as love, 54. Fruit, when hurtful to children, 182; when not fo, 183. Fury of a woman, jealoufy fuch, 58. G Gaiety in old women, what Diogenes said of it, 230. Gifts of fervants to children not to be suffered, 216. 144. Good looks no fecurity for love, 257. Governeffes, children not to be trusted to them, 123. Gracchi, Romans, bred by their mother Cornelia, 123, Grace, fervants as well partakers of it as maflers, Gratitude (common) obliges to love parents, 2. .H Habits, ill ones to be corrected in children, 190. Hardships, mind as well as body to be inured to them, Hating of children fpoils them, 215. Health of children, how to be provided for, 170. Ge- Heirs fuffer by their mothers frugality, 219; injured Hierocles his faying of the honour we owe parents, 23. History should be ftudied by women, 108. Home education, the disadvantage of it, 220. Humor Humour not to be indulged by youth, 10. Not al ways i in hufbands when four, 77. Rugged in women to be corrected, 116. Humouring children fpoils them, 195, 203. Hufbands, what arts are ufed to fet their wives against them, 67. Not to be flighted publickly, if foolish, 81. Idleness begets vice, 97. To be corrected betimes in children, 124. Jealoufy, the danger and mifchief of it, 56. How inconfiftent with modesty, 74. Jews, their fevere treatment of women, 15. Their kindness to their parents in diftrefs, 23. Imperioufness in wives, the mischief of it, 62. In miftreffes, lofes the love and obedience of fervants, 260. Impertinence of fervants not to be hearkened to by new-married women, 82. Indulgence of parents the ruin of children, 118. Infancy, feven years of it the life of an animal, 121. Its will pliant and manageable, 122. Infirmities of hufbands, to be concealed by wives, 63. Irish, how hardy they breed their children, 174. Juftification, the means of it to be used towards jealous husbands, 59. L Labour, the great fault of parents in not putting their children to it, 89. Lacing ftrait, the mifchief of it to women and chil dren, 176. Latin, mothers should learn it to teach their children, 136. Lavish wives, their fin, 66. Lawgivers, men are so to women, 71. Laws of nations for the right of parents to difpofe of their children in marriage, 12, 14. Learning, children get an averfion to it by the peevishness of tutors, 136. To be taught them by their mothers, ibid. Lenity of parents to children, rules for it, 156. Liberties (innocent) when to be avoided by discreet wives, 59. Library (ladies) the defign of it, 262. Life (woman's) the moit critical part of it, r27. First ten years of a boy's to be well inftructed, 129. Lincoln (Countefs of) her book called the Nurfery, 117. Living well, what is meant by it, 193. Locke (Mr.) his excellent advice about education, 132. 136. Love, the best quality in marriage, 13. Lungs, bad ones got by ftrait lacing, 177. Lying, children taught it, 192. M Maids, old ones, their impatience and fault, 25, 26. Malta (inhabitants of) how they bear the heat, 171. Manners (Good) an excefs of it, 71. Errors concerning it, 213. Marriage, how far parents confent is required, 4, 11, 14, 15; never good without love, 14. Christian, the restraint of it, 16. Children may have a fecond without parents leave, 17. The wife's an adoption into the hufband's family, 55. Its inflitution too facred to admit objection to it, 72. The great hazard of it, 225. Should be of one religion, 282. Martyrs book has preserved the Protestant religion, 160. Mafters, Mafters, their duty to their fervants, 238, feq. Matches unequal, widows cautioned against them, 227. Matrimony, the church's excellent preface to it, 36. Meals (childrens) not to be at conftant hours, 180. Mean education, the mifchief of it, 93. Meat, flesh not to be given to children, 178. Meeknefs in wives, the great use of it, 49. The grace and merit, 52. Melanthon, his faying of three difficult things, 137. Memories of children not to be overcharged, 208. Milk (ftrange) hurtful to children, 139. Mind, provifion to be made for it by parents, as well as for the body, 88. Good temperature of the body helps it, 121. Mifery or happinefs, a man's own making, 169. Miftrefs, the rule for her in the governing her fervants, 236. Modefty, the great virtue of it in children, 145. Monica, St. Auftin's mother, faved him by her Frayers, 168. Mothers, the duty of children to them, 20. Advice to one by a Prelate how to educate a daughter, 110, &feq. The tenderness of the title, 116. Should make their daughters their companions, 124. Mourner, the true character of a widow, 234. N Nakedness of parents not to be expofed, 1. Nature has given the fuperiority to the man, and why, 39. Plain and rough, better than affectation, 212. Neglect of parents in marrying their children, excufes their marrying themselves, 18. Niggardlinefs, the vices of it, with refpect to the education of children, 134. |