Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland; As to Their Conduct for the Service of Their Country, as Landlords, Masters of Families, as Protestants, as Descended from British Ancestors, as Country Gentlemen and Farmers, as Justices of (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816. Excerpt: ... deserving of our children, riots and revels in an overgrown fortune (and what is a very great aggravation of the evil is thereby tempted to spend it abroad, ) while many younger sons, and daughters are left in the poorest, and lowest circumstances. There are none who cannot recollect many living instances of this kind, both as to the merits, and distress of tbe younger children, in many families, and as pride alone is the sole foundation for so unnatural, and cruel a treatment of our own flesh and blood; surely it is to be wished that all settlements at marriage, should be restrained herein by law, and that where there is a numerous issue, the payment of their fortunes, and maintenance, should be made more easy, and secure to them, and one third at least of the whole, should be constantly reserved, to prevent their falling into want and misery, and to afford them some reasonable foundation for industry to build on. The last Resolution which seems proper for us to lay down for our conduct, as masters of families, is this, that as to our servants, we will endeavour to the best of our power, to keep such as are more for use and necessary employments, than figure and show. Though I Jook on an honest, and faithful servant, as a valuable and worthy creature; and think we should use such, but as humble friends, yet in general, servants are grown so great a plague, and incumbrance on house keepers, that I believe, as Squire Slender says in the merry Wives of Windsor, we shall be forced at last to wait on ourselves. The complaints pf 1 them are endless, they have raised their wages to double what they were, and they seem resolved not to do half so much for them as formerly. They agree as regularly for their diet, that they shall have tea, and be fed so and so, as i..