text:  They talked of virtue and duty and how good it was to dwell in these painful bodies since they were the place wherein virtue was practised and duty learned; and the father taught the son that the opportunities occurred not only in enduring the dissolution of the frame of present things and in the untiring exertion to aid and support life in those who were of weaker sex than they but in abiding with even and cheerful temper the vexations of every day and in adorning as far as possible as well as preserving life