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•y ' VERSES Oa a goose.
X J. ET other* pirfe the warbling Thrush,
1- Th» ling: so fwret from yonder bush;
Or e!!« the lark th*t lean so high,
To j-ourif* mill: thro’ th' sky;
Or others if they will may hail,
The heautieaol the peace k’s tail,
I fingthe bird that’s ht for use.
The fat, contented, Hubble goofs
Whofs wing my cheerful fire oit blows,
Who gives me down for my repose j
The flavor of whose food I boast,
In pye, or foop or boil’d or rnaft;
“ Who lends a tongue unto my foul,
“ That’* heard Irom Indies to the pole. ”
[ The following is a very new, and a very ex
cellent poem. He who can read, without
sympathy, in the fourth paragraph, the de
scription of a parent's f licitude for the qui
et repose, and childhood felicity of her Jon ,
is unworthy the bleffir.g of a good mother. ]
On the RECEIPT of my MOTHER’S
PICTURE.
[From ”” ■' ""’•’.si > oems.]_
\4T , .vthofe lips had language! Life has pafs’d •
haft.y me b U { roughly since 1 heard the last.
Thole lips are thine— thy own f yeet lmiles I fee,
The fame that oft in childhood solaced me ;
Voice only tails, clfe how tlillindl they fay,
«• Gtteve not, my child, chale ail thy tear* away !”
The m.ek intelligence of those dear eyes
(Biel\ be the art that can immorta <zr,
The art that b files time’s tyrauic claim
To quench it) here fliine. on me (till the fame.
Faithful rememb sneer of one so dear.
On, welcome guest though unexuede here !
Who hid<l ft me honor with an artiels long,
As cdionite a mother kit lb long,
1 ill ob:y, not wil ingly alone,
B.h gladly, as the pucepts were het own j
A i l, while thai lace renews my filial grief.
Fancy (h <ll weave a cha'm lor my relict—
Shall ftetp me in Elylian reverie,
A momentary dream, that thou att she.
Mym 'ther! when I le.irn’d that thou waft dead,
Say, will thouco.iluous o' the teats 1 Ihe.?
Haver'd thy Imrit o’er thy forr wing lon,
Wreick even then, life'sjourneyjuft begun?
Ferhaps thou gsv’ftme, though unseen a kiss,
J’erh. psa tear, if fouls can werp in bl Is—
Ah, that maternal Imile! it anlwers—Yes,
I heaid the hell toll’d on thy burial day,
1 law the hearse that bote hre (lowaway,
And, turning Itorn my nuis'ry window, drew
A long, lon.' figla and wept a Mt adieu !
But was it fiueh ?—lt w is.—Where thou art gone
A iieus and fatewels are a loond unknown,
May I but meet thee on that peace ul Ihore,
The parting found lha.l pals my lips no more !
Thy maidens griev’j themselves at my concern.
Oft gave me promifeof a quick return,
What ardently I wilh’d, 1 ior.g btliev^T,
And disappointed (fill was ft,II deieiv’d,
Fy dilappointment evety day beguil’d,
Jlupeol to-moriew tvcti from -AliilJ,
Tims many a lad to-moirow came and went,
Tnl a i mv flock of mla t sorrow spent,
1 learned at last fubm lfion to my lot,
But, though 1 lels deplor’d thee, ne’er forgot.
Wh reonce we dwe tour name is hea'd no more,
Children not thine have trod my nuis'ry floor
And wlieie the gard’ne , Robhin, day by day,
l>r« w mi' to sch. ol along the public way,
Pcl phted with my bawble coach, and wrapt
In fc-rlet mantles warm, and velvet cap
*Tis now become a hiftory lirtle known,
That once we call’d the paft’ral h»ufe our own.
Short lived poflcflion ! hut the record lair,
That mem’ey keeps of all thv kindness there,
Stilt o«' ives many a storm that has efa-.’d
A thoufaml oth * theme* less deeply trac’d,
Thy nightly visits tu my chamber made,
That thou migh’ft know me lase and warmly laid ;
Th\ m ruing bounties e’te 1 leit my home,
Tin hiUuit, or contedionary plumb j
1 lie tr.tgraut .%aicu on my cheek* beftow’J
l.< th\ own hand, till lrvfh they Ihone and glow’d :
A. th j, and more endearing ftillthan all,
Thy conftatu flow ot ove that knew no fall,
Ne’ei toeghen’d by thol taurfols and breaks
That humor it.t< rp I’d too often nuks-s j
Ail this ft til legib e in tnem’r ‘s page,
And (till to be so, to my latcft age,
Adas joy o dut*, in kes me glad to pay
Biuh honors to ihee as my numbers may;
Perhaps a ’tail memoiial, bit- fiicerc,
Not IcoiitVl in heaven, though little notic'd here.
*
Could time, his flight revers’d, restore the hours
When, playing with thy velluie’s tiflued flowers,
The violet, the pink, ; nd jeiramine,
) prick’d them into paper with a pin,
( mi , thou « ait happier lha mylcll the while,
V u i’A lofty (peak, and fttokc my head and imile)
Could thole tew pleutant hours again appear.
M igl tone with bt.ng them, woulu 1 wilh thrm here?
] would not trull my heart—the dear delight
Si cm* so to be cWfiird, perhaps 1 might.
J.i.t no—svhat here we call our l.lc u.uch
S < little to he lov’d, and thou so much.
That I fliould ill requite thee to conlltatn
Thy unbound (pints into bonds again.
Thou, as a gallant bark Lorn Albion’s coast,
(The itorms 4 weitbe’d and he ocean crols’d)
Shoots -oitu lom* well heven’d isle,
W’hete p *e, breathe a d bughter leafo s smile,
Titered:* quiet,enton ihefl o;s that Ihow
Het be.m tows loan refletlei cleir below,
Whi e airs impregnated with inrenfe play
Aion id het aiming light It-r streamers g >••
So the 'i, with let's how wit! haft reach’d the (here,
** V i m.e.h sever beat nor billows roat,"
A 'd thy lose,. ,onio t »n the dang'ious t de
I t*. Ic .g fine, has ateket’d t thy fide.
b'C me. Caret hop ne to ait an chat rest,
A wasstrona po t withheld always diftrefs’d—
The h. whi g vend,drive J.vous, tempeftr lofs’d,
5.... s tip?, Iv tmsop’utßg wide, and compafc loft,
A'W 4IV bv dav so ne current’s thwarting force
•Vts me m >f* T.'ant ft cm a prosperous course.
But oh th- thought, th.t thou art fat: and he!
J ut thoucht „ yoy, arrive what may to me.
My b .s k t that 1 deduce my Wirth
i*t,.s ««tlvrott’d *ad tulctj ej tfieearfh ;
And tic w, tare we—time, un'evck’J, has run
Ihr wonted eourle, y t what I urilh’d is done.
;jy con cmpUtiou’i help, not lought in v.un,
I idem t’have liv’d my chi:i.hooa o’er agatr. j
j'o have renew’d she joys that once were mine,
A ithout t he fin of violating th:n«;
And while the wings of fancy iti.l aw free,
And l can view this mitn c fltew of th^e,
I'tme has but half fuccetaeu in ht 3 theft—
fh/felf remov’d, thy power to fo*the me left.
Comparifcn between the Sexes .
WOMAN is a very nice and very
complicated machine. Her springs
are infinitely delicate ; and differ from
those of man, pretty nearly as the work of
a repeating-watch does from that of a
townclock. Look at her; how delicately
formed ! Examine her senses; how exqtii
fiteand nice! Observe her underfranding;
how subtle and acute ! But look into her
heart; there is the watch-work, composed
of parts so minute in themlelves, and so
wonderfully combined, that they muftbe
seen by a microscopic eye to be clearly ap
prehended.
The perception of a woman is as quick
as lightning Her penetration is intuition;
I had inftin£t. By a glance of
her eye, draw a deep and just con
clusion.. Aik her, how she formed it? {lie
Jfinfvver the question. The phi
loWpiff deduces inferences; and his in
ferences fliall be right: but he gets to the
head of the ftair-cale, if I may fay so, by
(low degrees, and mounting step by step.
She arrives at the top of the ltair-cafc as
well as he : but whether (he leaped or flew
there, is more than (lie knows herielf.
While she trusts her inftinft, she is scarce
ever deceived : she is generally loft, when
(he attempts to reason.
As the perception of women is.furpri
fingly quick, so their fouls and imagina
tions are uncommonly susceptible. Few
of them have talents to write ; but, when
they do, how lively are their pidtuies!
how animated their deferiptions ! But if
lew women write, they all talk; and eve
ry man may judge of them in this point,
from every circle he goes into. Spirit in
convention depends entirely upon fancy ;
and women, all over the world, talk bet
ter than <OOll. Let a man and a woman
of apparently equal understandings, goto
i ball: fee which of them will enjoy most
pleasure, and bring home the greatest num
ber of interesting anecdotes.—Have they
a character to pourtrav, or a figure to de
f<,ribe, they give but three traits of either
the one or the other, and the character is
known, or the figure placed before our
eye*. Why ? From the fufeeptibility of
their nut lona. Ttich fa titles TCCCWC
lively impreftions from those principal
traits, and they paint those impreftions
with the fame vivacity with which they
receive them. I remember feeing at Ge
neva an Engl i fli la Jy who had j nil come
out of Italy. She painted the paflage of
the Alps, in fix plirafes, better than I
could have done by a fortnight’s labor
upon paper.
I look upon it, that the elements are
not only differently mixed in women, from
what they are in men, but that they are
almost of different forts. Their fire is
purer; their clay is more refined. The
difference, I think, may be about the fame,
that there is between air and aether; be
tween culinary and eleffrical fire. The
aetherial fire is not given, perhaps, in so
large a proportion to women as to men :
but it is a more subtle, and finer spirit.
Let a woman of fancy warm in conven
tion, she will produce a hundred charm
ing images, among which there fliall not
be one indelicate or coarse. Warm a man
on the fame fubjedt: he fliall poftiblv find
stronger allusions ; but they fliall neither
be so brilliant nor so chaste.
As to gracefulnefs of expression, it be
longs almost exclufivety to women.
But men, you fay, have founder judg
ments. That they unquestionably have :
and for that, 1 confefs, I never could fer
but one reason, the difference of their edu
cation. Fo theage of thirteen or fourteen,
girls are every where superior to boys.
At fourteen, a boy begins to get some ad
vantages over a girl, and he continues to
improve, by means of education, till three
or four and twenty, poflibly till thirty.
Her education, fu«h as it is, is over at
eighteen. He has all the fountains of
knowledge open to him—interest to fti
tnulate him to exetcife his parts —rivals to
emulate— opponents to conquer. His
talents are always on the stretch. To this
he adds the advantages of travel: and even
if he fliould not go abroad, he can enter
in*o an infinite number of honfes from
which flie is debarred. A found judg
ment cannot be formed but bv continual
excrcifr, and frequent comparisons. It is
nipoftible for women to have these advan
tages: and thence, I believe, the principal
■;aufe of the inferiority of their judgment.
The liveliness of their fancies, and of their
feelings, you will fav, contributes aifo to
" eaken their powers of judging. T[iat,
probabiy, dees enter for something; but
t-usc.uior.mviU be the grand caufc; for
quainTance,
hue feelings and warm imaginations ?
Take a man and a woman, who have
never been out of the village in which
they were born, and neithe: of whom know
how to read : I qieftion much if his de
cretive faculties will be found to beftrong
er than her’s.
As judgment, then, can ccme but from
knowledge, I will readily agree that the
number cf women who have solid judg
ments, is very small. But if I do not con
tend for them, on this head, as equal to
men, I believe you will not dispute the
superior sensibility of their fouls. Their
feelings are certainly more exquisite than
thole of men ; and their fentimeuts greater
and more refined. Though the severity,
ill-temper, negleft, and perfidy of men,
often force women to have recource to dis
simulation—yet when they have noble
charafters to deal with, how sincere and
ardent is their love! how delicate and solid
their attachment! woman is not near so
felfifh a creature as man. When a man is
in love, the objeft of his passion is, if 1
may fay lb, himfelf. When a woman is
enamoured of a man, she forgets herfelf,
the world, and all that it contains, and
wiflies to exist only for the objeft of her
affe&ion. How few men make any vio
lent facrifices to fenriment! but how many
women does every man know, who have
facrificed fortune and honors, to noble,
pure, and disinterested motives.
A man mounts a breach 5 he braves
danger; and obtains a vi&ory.—This is
great and glorious.—He has served his
country : he has acquired fame, prefer
ment, riches.—Wherever he appears, ref
peft awaits him ; admiration attends him;
crowds press to meet him; and theatres
receive him with bursts of applause. His
glory dies not with him. Hiftory pre
fer ves his memory from oblivion. That
thought chears his dying hour : and his
lalt words, pronounced with feeble plea- j
lure, are, “ I (hall not all die.”
A woman lends her hulband to the war.
She lived but in that hulband. Her foul
goes with him. She trembles for t e dan
gers of the sea. She trembles for the dan
gers of the land. Every billow that fweils,
Ihe thinks is to be his tomb; every ball
that flies, she imagines is directed against
him. A brilliant capital appears to her a
dreary defart; her universe was a man ;
and that man’s life, her terror tells her, is
in danger. Her days are days of sorrow ;
her nights are flee’plefs nights. She fits
immoveable, her mornings, in all the dig
nity and composure of grief, like Agrip
rma in here hair rAyi.n, ftjc
seeks repose, repose has fled her couch
the silent tears steal down her cheek, and
wet her pillow ; or if, by chance, exhaust
ed nature finds an hour’s Humber, her fan
cy, sickened by her di(tempered foul, fees
in thatfleep, a bleeding lover, or his mang
led corfe. Time pafles, and her grief in
creases; till, worn out at length by too
much tenderness, she falls the viftim of
too exquisite a sensibility, and finks with
sorrow to the grave.
No—cold, unfeeling reader—these are
not pictures of my creation. They are
neither charged, nor embellished; but both
copied faithfully from nature—the count
d’Eftaign and lady Cornwallis.
The former is now a grandee of Spain,
covered with ribands, and aiming to arrive
at the head of the state. His ientiments
were noble: but they had for objeft only
himfelf. Thelatter thought not of herfeif:
she did for another.
ANECDOTES.
Os the King of Pruffta.
OLD Frederick had a great opinion of
the utility of experience—A very young
graduate presented a petition, requeuing
his majeftv would appoint him a iupreme
general. The king wrote under his peti
tion—“ Turn to your bible, and in the
tenth chapter and fifth verse of the second
hook of Samuel, you will find it thus writ
ten; “ Tarry at Jericho until your beard
is grown, and then come again.”
Hey wood the epigrammatift, being ask
ed by queen Mary the I. what wind blew
him to court ?” answered he, two winds,
The one to fee your majt/ly. “ We thank
you for that, said the queen : and what is
the other r” That your maje.Ty, said he
might fee me.
» ~
The works of the greatest literary inge
nuity are often negle&ed by the age m
which they were written. Sensible of this 1
Dr. Goldsmith drew the following bill up
on future ages. Mr. Poficrity, Sir , Nine
hundred and ninety-nine years after the fi-lit
hereof, pay the hearer hereof a tkoufand pounds
tvotfh of prafe , free from all deductions what
former, it being a commodity that will if then
very Jerviceable to him, end place it to the ac
cc.or.pt cf &c.
As FPI GRAM.
Five Reopens for Drzohinp.
GOOD Wine—a Friend: or ben'? dry;
Or, left we ihould be by and bv
Or, any other reilbn vrhy.
' 1 W 'WULUIiU ITSTI7D A ,
HAVE FOR SALE, |
At Stoiefor Kelly occupied ly M\Ca»h, I
TON Dunk LEY, 1
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT* 0? 1
G 0_ G 33 S I
Suitable for the prefer.t Sccfooe * I
AMONG WHICH ASE, 1
CHINTZES, $ DIMITIES, ‘ 1
CALLICOES, § LINENS, 1%
MUSLINS, § HUMHUMS,&J|
ALSO,
Jamaica, Weft-India Sc Northward P VIJ! JI
by the hogshead or gallon,
Teneriffe and Sherry Wine by the pi*. I
quarter cask or gallon, I
Sugar per barrel or tingle potind, j
Coffee in bags. Also,
GIN, § PEPPER,
BRANDY, § ALSPICE,
AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT 0*
GROCERIES.
All which will be fold on the lowest term)
for CASH.
They have a few hundred weight
of BACON. • a
J u, y 1 7« ts. r.
SPRING GOODI~
The SUBSCRIBERS,
Have just received per the flip fox from loj*.
don. and for Sale at their Store an broa©.
street,
A COMPLETE ASSORT MEKT Op
Fancy if Fashionable Articles,
Suitable to the season, which will be fold ‘‘
at their usual low price, tor eafti or corny I
produce.
Reuben Butler, if Co..
J”b’ »7« t. |
JOSEPH CARRIE, |
Has for Sale at his Store in BROAD-street
CORN if CORN MEAL, * j
by the small or large quantities, cheap for
CASH.
July 17. *2t.
The Subscribers,
Ref eSi fully acquaint the inhabitants of An*
gnfta and its vicinity ,
THAT THEY HAVE COMMENCED THE
Gold if Silver Smiths, Book-Binding
and Stationary BUSINESS,
In SAVANNAH.
W T here they have on hand, a compleat
Ajjortment of BOOKS;
Principally Novels, the newest and mo 3
interesting—Among which are,
The Monk, § Itallian Nun,
Moore’s, § The Hive,
Edward, § Count Roderick's
Camilla, § Cuftle,
Evellina, § Tom Jones,
Itallian, § Telernachus, Sec,
American Bee, § likewise,
Histories and School Books.
They have also on hand, , an Afortment of
JEWELRY.
*** Merchants and others supplied with
BLANK BOOKS of any defeription, and
Books Re-bound on reasonable terms.
P? The ftri&eft attention will be paii
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MILLER & POWERS.
Savannah, July 11. t> *
FINAL NOTICE.
THE fubferiber supposes the following
extraft will be a fufficient apoligy
for his afleffing the defaulters with a dou
ble tax, anti publilhipg their names cn the
firft of Auguli next.
“ The Receivers of Tax Returns for
the year 1799, are requested to complete
and forward their returns as early as possi
ble, that the Collectors may have them in
time to proceed in their collections previ
ous to the meeting of the next legislature,
which will be in November (two month*
earlier than hft year.)
JOHN' BERRIEN, Treafurer*
The officers commanding the several
company diftri&s, who have not vet fur*
nifhed me with a lift of the inhabitants li
able to pay tax, are once more requested
to do so cn or before the 25th inst. other
? wife the law will be enforced.
JO’S. HUTCHINSON, R.T.R-
Ricbnond county, July lb, 1799.
W ANTE D, ~~
A Bov of about 13 or 14 years of age,
wno has received a liberal education
and can come well recommended, as Ap
prentice to the Printing-Business.— Apply
at this office.
July 17.
Biank Deeds of Conveyance,
lor Lie at this Office.