He bid me observe it,and I should always find,that he calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind;but that the black argyle uggs middle station had the fewest disasters,and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind;nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses either of body or mind as those were who,by vicious living,luxury,and extravaagances on one hand, or by hard labor,want of neccessaries,and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand,bring distempers upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living,that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all kinds of enjoyments,that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune,that temperance,moderation,quietness,health,society,all agreeable the middle.
I observed in this last part of his discourse,which was truly prophetic,though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself,I say,I observe the tears run down his face very plentifully,and especially when he spoke of my brother who was killed,and that when he spoke of my having leisure to repent,and none o assist me,he was so moved that he broke off the discourse and told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.
I was sincerely affected with this discourse,as indeed who could be otherwise?and I resolved not to think of going abroad any more but to settle at home according to my father's disire,but alas!A few days wore it all off,and in short,to prevent any of my father's farther Uggs argyle knit black size 9 importunities,in a few weeks after I resolved to run quite away form him.However,I did not act so hastily neither as my first heat of resolution prompted,but I took my mother,at a time when I though her a little pleasanter than ordinary,and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it,and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it;that I was now eighteen years old,which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney, that I was sure,if I did,I should never serve out my time,and I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out and got to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad,if I came home again and did not like it,I would go no more,and I would promise by a double diligence to recover that time I had lost.