Identifier: eveningsathomeor00inaiki (find matches)
Title: Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822. cn Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. cn Corbould, Henry, 1787-1844. cn Heath, Charles, 1785-1848. cn
Subjects: Didactic fiction Conduct of life
Publisher: London : James Cornish & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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us disease ; and hevoluntarily exposed himself to perform a strictquarantine, as one suspected of having the in-fection of the plague, only that he might bethoroughly acquainted with the methods used forprevention. He at length died of a fevercaughtin attending on the sick on the borders of CrimTartary, honoured and admired by all Europe,after having greatly contributed to enlighten hisown and many other countries with respect tosome of the most important objects of humanity.Such was Howard the Good ; as great a hero inpreserving mankind, as some of the false heroesabove-mentioned were in destroying them. My second hero is a much humbler, but not aless genuine one. There.was a journeyman bricklayer in thistown—an able workman, but a very drunken idlefellow, who spent at the alehouse almost all heearned, and left his wife and children to shift forthemselves as they could. This is, unfortu-nately, a common case ; and of all the tyrannyand cruelty exercised in the world. 1 believe that
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TRUE HEROISM. 391 of bad husbands and fathers is by much the mostfrequent and the worst. The family might have starved, but for hiseldest son, wliom from a child the fatlior broughtup to help him in his vsork ; and who was so in-dustrious and attentive, that being now at the ageof thirteen or fourteen, he was able to earn prettygood wages, every farthing of ^\ hich, that hecould keep out of his fathers hands, he broughtto his mother. And when his brute of a fathercame home drunk, cursing and swearing, and iusuch an ill humour that his mother and the restof the children durst not come near him for fearof a beating, this good lad (Tom was his name),kept near him, to pacify him and get him quietlyto bed. His mother, therefore, justly lookedupon Tom as the support of the family, and lovedLim dearly. It chanced that one day, Tom, in climbing upa high ladder with a load of mortar on his head,missed his hold, and fell down to the bottom on heap of bricks and rubbish. The by-standersjan up to

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