THE

BACHELOR

AND THE

MARRIED MAN,

OR THE

EQUILIBRIUM OF THE

"BALANCE OF COMFORT."

-"If I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of
others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have
existence."

-"Can any thing conduce so probably to the well-being of
a rational, social animal, as the right exercise of that reason, and
of those social affections?"

-"All men pursue good, and would be happy, if they knew
how."

-"A steady, durable good, cannot be derived from an exter-
nal cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate, as
they fluctuate."-

"What then remains but the cause internal; the very cause
which we have supposed when we place the sovereign good in
mind in rectitude of conduct?"-

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

Harris.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

“But you think if I had not married, I might have been happier; - is it not

66 Exactly: every time I see a man burdened with a wife and family, I con-gratulate myself on my liberty; and make a vow never to part with it."

"Suus cuique mos est— every man to his taste you to your liberty, I to my family; you, to travelling; - I, to

home: if both are contented, it signifies not."

"For a married man, I must confess you are tolerably comfortable:

-

but

your's was a marriage founded on love alone."

Poh! nonsense: Maria was pointed out to me by my friends, as a proper person for a wife; my romantic days were over before I was nineteen; I was then seven and twenty, old enough to judge for myself, and to be thankful for advice; our estates were contiguous; she was sufficiently handsome to banish the idea, that I married for riches alone;

we became man and wife; - her temper I found cheerful in the main; sometimes a cloud comes over: it; for let

lovers say as they please, women are not sungels I am not always serene; sometimes we are disturbed together; then