A boy would have blushed as at the exposure of some heinous immorality, to have been detected eating that forbidden portion of his allowance of animal food, the whole of which, while he was in health, was little more than sufficient to allay his hunger.
The same, or even greater, refinement was shown in the rejection of certain kinds of sweet-cake.

What gave rise to these supererogatory penances, these self-denying ordinances, I could never learn;[2] they certainly argue no defect of the conscientious principle.

A little excess in that article is not undesirable in youth, to make allowance for the inevitable waste which comes in maturer years.

But in the less ambiguous line of duty, in those directions of the moral feelings which cannot be mistaken or depreciated, I will relate what took place in the year 1785, when Mr.Perry, the steward, died.

I must be pardoned for taking my instances from my own times.