Frugality the support of charity : a sermon, preached before the governors of the Infirmary for the counties of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumberland ... To which is annexed, a report of the state of the charity.

  • Edmund Tew
Date:
1756
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Frugality the support of charity : a sermon, preached before the governors of the Infirmary for the counties of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumberland ... To which is annexed, a report of the state of the charity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 9 ] their Eftates, Titles, Offices, and Relations, the Remainder is a Remainder for the Public, and as much due to the Public, as what their Stewards received was due to Them. I t has been afferted alfo, that Saving is no Vir¬ tue in Princes; and one cannot wonder, that they, who are about them, wifh wrell to this Pofition. But, furely, this is an unexamined Hece of Rhe¬ toric, and can be true but in one Senfe, with re- fpeft to their having for their Children,—for vvhofe Sake it is needlefs, as the Public, whofe they are alfo, affigns them princely Appointments. Never- thelefs, did it become me to treat of the Affairs of Princes, I fhould not take up much of your Time in filewing, that Frugality is not only a Virtue for Pcrfons in lower Life and Station, but extends from the Mechanic to the Sovereign ; nor fhall I fcruple to fay, That it is of capital Ufe to all Orders of Men, and of as much Service to every individual, as his annual Income.* Numberless indeed are its Advantages— o The frugal Man needs not run after great Per- fons, nor melt away his Days in vain Attend¬ ance.—But how many Injuries mull he cloak up, how many Affronts and Denials mull he fwailow, C who * Ego Trugalitatem, i. e, Modeftlam et Temperantiam, vir-