Daughters, all dutiful and obedient. The Treasures and good Things, however, of this Life are ſo uncertain, that a Man can never be happy, unleſs he lays the Foundation for it in his own Mind. So true is that Copy in our Writing Books, which tells us, that a contented Mind is a continual Feaſt
After ſome Years ſucceſſful Trade, he thought his Circumſtances ſufficient to inſure his own Ships, or, in other Words, to ſends his Ships and Goods to Sea without being inſured by others, as is cuſtomary among Merchants; when, unfortunately for him, four of them richly laden were loſt at Sea. This he ſupported with becoming Reſolution; but the next Mail brought him Advice, that nine others were taken by the French, with whom we then at War; and this,
