Ivernian Church of Alberta

Respecting the Bad Home:

Twig

 

  1. There are three uncomfortable things:
    1. a house without a mate
    2. a chamber without food
    3. a body without health.
  2. Three things which make disorder in a household:
    1. the man drunken
    2. the wife execrable
    3. the children intractable.
  3. Three things that one is better without:
    1. a dishonest household
    2. disobedient children
    3. a drunken mate.
  4. Three things which will drive one from their house:
    1. their mate quarrelling
    2. their roof leaking
    3. their chimney smoking.
  5. Three infelicities of a household:
    1. an idle doer of ill
    2. keeping a paramor
    3. lodging a priest.
  6. Three things which make one needy:
    1. Their mate luxurious
    2. their household negligent
    3. themselves extravagant.
  7. Three things which bring a mate hate instead of love:
    1. peevishness
    2. desire of dominance
    3. the pampering of their own stomach.
  8. Three things which bring on one the worlds disrespect and their mates' hatred:
    1. lying long in the morning
    2. being stubborn
    3. bringing a paramor into their house.
  9. Three indignities of a woman:
    1. being garrulous
    2. being querulous
    3. being slanderous.
  10. Three indignities of a man:
    1. being quick to suspicion
    2. being quick to anger
    3. being slow to labor.
  11. Three things which bring on a person a bad opinion:
    1. being apt to dally with youths
    2. being greedy in dainties
    3. speaking ill of their neighbors.

Contents
1. Preface 22. Respecting The Bad Home
2. An Omnium Gatherum 23. Pertaining To The Fili'
3. Respecting Excellence 24. Pertaining To Contracts And Agreements
4. Respecting The Conscientious Person 26. Good Health And Bad
5. Respecting The Rewards Of Excellence 27. Advisements Of Prudence
6. Origins Of Wrong Doing 28. Respecting The Order Of Nature
7. Respecting Those Gone Amiss 29. Respecting The Nature Of Humankind
8. The Profits Of Those Who Have Gone Amiss 30. Respecting Action
9. Respecting Wealth And Poverty 31. Respecting Knowledge
10. Miscellaneous Wisdom 32. Respecting Wisdom
11. The Order Of Society 33. Respecting Those Who Are Wise
12. The Underpinnings Of Society 34. Respecting The Fool And Their Inanity
13. The Banes Of Society 35. Respecting Wisdom Applied
14. Respecting Land And Husbandry 36. Respecting Ambitions And The Roads To Success
15. The Respectable Citizen 37. Respecting Friendship
16. The Nocuous Citizen 38. Respecting Happiness
17. Respecting Legacies 39. Respecting Philosophy
18. Monitorial Advisements 40. Respecting Warriors
19. Manifold Blessings And Beneficence 41. Respecting The True Human
20. Respecting Etiquette 42. Respecting Spirituality
21. Respecting The Good Home  
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