The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-22 00:00:00

A R R I A G E.
One half the wend are desolately single, and the other
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
comprosing hurry ; but the troth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should net be the Only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justicedensand that health should form au item
In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
lIEMOIRS 'On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., is.
sach (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
,or the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
ittle publications claim your attention (same price is. each,
t.)3, poet Is. 6d.) ealled " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy. They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
mtoaykebeep ahadlwayosf
life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
iervanee of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
pn the " sunny ea'bsolyanwws—oranksa
would be done unto—to live
way.
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MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA-
T'CrRE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT
RESTORATION.
Habits, discriminate
A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the
inGenerative Or
emanating from Solitary and Sedentarygans Ex-
,
cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Practical Remarks
on Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Mental De-
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c eatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been
he prey of the illiterate and the designing."— United Service
Gazette.

The Parent, who behelds his beloved child pining away, and fast
approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease,
which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been
set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work,
he astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young per-
sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con-
sumption, heart disease, tapes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth
much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
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