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fI^JiUSES^RETREAT.
But Thk ART of PRINTING.
L onl- A POEM.
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JL Hail, majefticartl which men lilt* Angel* taught
*, To to ryci, and paint unbod)'d thought!
Though deaf, and dumb } bkft still reliev’d by thee,
| We make one fenft perform the talk of three.
We fee, we hear, we touch the head and heart,
And take, or give, what each but yield* in part.
With the hard law* of distance we dtfpenfe,
And without found, a part commune in sense:
View, though refined; nay rule, this earthly ball,
And travido’er the wide expanded all.
Dead letter* thus with living notions fraught,
Prove to the foul the telefcope* of thought,
To mortal life a deathless witness give.
And bid all deed* and titles last and live.
In scanty life, eternity we taste,
View the hrft age*, and inform the last.
Arts, hift'ry, law», we purchase with a lool^
And keep, like fate, all nature in a bock.
& a sailor’s sentence wa* pro
nouncing, who committed a robbery on
the highway, he raised a piece of rolled to
bacco to hia mouth, and held it between
l>is teeth. When the sentence was finifli
<rd, he bit off a piece of the tobacco, and
began to chew it with great unconcern.
“ Sirrah ! (said the judge, piqued at the
man’s indifference,) do you know thatyou
are to be hanged shortly ?” “ So I hear,”
laid the sailor, and squirting a little tobac
cojuice from his mouth, at the fame time.
“Do you know, (rejoined the judge,)
where you (hall go when you die? “I can
not tell, indeed, an’t please your honor,”
said the fjilor. “ Why then, (cried the
judge, with a tremendous voice,) I wtll tell
you: you will gotohcli! “Then, my
lord, 1 hope I flu 11 have the pleasure of
your company there.”
A man that had but one eve met early
in the morning one that had a crooked
back, and said to him, “ Friend, you are
loaded betimes.” “It is early, indeed,
(replied the other,) for you have but one
of your windows open.”
A lawyer told his client, his adversary
had removed his suit from one court into
another; to whom the client replied,
“Let him remove it to the devi’, if he
;;'yrfgtj my-ittosiicy, for monev,
will follow it.”
ADVICE
To those •'Mho Kant it , and that unfortunately
is too many.
HE mod damning vicesmankind can
be guilty of, are lying, idleness, whore
dom and taking that which is not their
own :
And these threaten them with hunger,
disease, a ptifon, and a gibbet.
Every call you have to eat, when you
know not where to find either food or mo
ne •, impeaches thofc hands which were
guen you to labor with, of high crimes
and mildemeanors.
The imcparable companions of indo
lence nre a craving appetite, debility of
body, and wretchedness of mind.
Avoid the company of lewd women;
you w ill find them callous, perfidious, ra
pacious, aud cruel. Their embrace is that
of a ferpeut. And who would be robbed
of hi money, injurui in his health, become
a victim to quacks, and quackery, lose his
spirits and his credit, for the unmanly in
dulgence of lying inglorioujly in the lap of a
harlot.
It is often to support a mistress, that the
ftrvant betrays his matter to his accom
plices ; that from pilfering he proceeds to
theft; that having rifled the till, he com
mits his depredations on the delk ; that a
fade calculation is so often an introduc
tion to forgery ; that picking pockets em
boldens to rob on the highway, and that
the thoughtless are often prompted to as
sume the garb of a ruffian, and murderer
at midnight.
These are the deeds that originate in
lewdness, inattention tobutinefs, or excels
'in the pursuit of pleasure.
As therefore you value health of body,
peace oi mind, a good character, and a
quiet tile, be industrious, temperate and
honrtt.
hpend every week day at work, and go
*0 church at least one part of Sunday.
Priuk rs vou cat, only for nonrifliment.
Go e?r!v and cooljr to' be 1, and y ou will
flerpt&ftly, and rife retrefhed.
h vclte no quarrels.
Contract no debts. j
Be cotutut with vour lot.
Kn n-'t the rich.
O pit .s not the poor.
IS I* s •' th.* g H>d yon can.
fi * rt “ l bc > oaT in
Ht'ivcn*
m
MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL
OBSERVATIONS.
Jt is a maxim too obvious to be disput
ed, that an ignorant people cannot long
preserve freedom. How then, it will be
alked, are savages free ? They are so by
nature. The liberty of a savage, however,
and that of a civilized man, are efl'entially
different. Civil liberty implies both re*
ftraint and protection ; but a savage is
neither prote&ed nor restrained. Where
there is no government at all, men are lit
erally free, but from a want of law, they
cannot enjoy their freedom. Where there
is a despotic goverument, the people are
politically fiaves; but still they are not in
a worse condition than savages who re
main as free as nature formed them.
There cannot, strictly speaking, beany
rational freedom without fixed laws. Thert
can be no such laws, where there is no
civilization. And as an ignorant people
cannot be called civilized, they are without
those materials which form the protection
of law, and therefore cannot deem them
selves free.
In tracing the causes of the decline of
dates, one after another, we are presented
with a striking demonstration of the truths
just mentioned. It must happen, that the
fplendorand pageantry of courts, the opu
lence and artifice of a few individuals,
will create a glare of civilization, whicn
dazzles the great bulk of a community,
who are still too unenlightened to be called
civilized. No nation deserves such an
appellation, where knowledge and proper
ty are confined to a few persons; any more
than that deserves to be called a learned
nation, in which a few individuals have
made eminentattainmentsin science. The
prevailing cast of charafter among the peo
ple at large, is what should constitute the
national charader.
Where the inhabitants of any country
are destitute of the means of acquiring a
current information of public affairs, they
cannot be brought into a concert of views.
They will be impressed with difeordant
notions of men and measures, and it will
be impollible toproduceany union of sen
timent. A hitter spirit of parry will in
evitably attend such a situation ; and pub
lic liberty will expire in the rage of fac
tion.
The evils of fa&ion, however, will al
ways be checked in a community which
poffeffcs general information. The at
tempts of turbulent and intriguing men
will soon be difeovered, and easily defeat
ed by a well-informed people; and all the
nenucs of public danger will be fK?!y
guarded. Such people will readily learn
what they ought to bear and what to re
fill. They will seldom commit mistakes ;
because they are raised above ignorance,
which is the only foil in which mistakes
can grow. The public opinion will, of
course, be just and venerable. It will con
troul the formation of the laws, which will
be so congenial to the public wifli, and
the public interest, that there can be no
motive, and consequently chance, for a
bad execution. The only certainty that a
law will be well executed, results from its
being consonant to the general opinion—
but how is an ignorant people to form any
general opinion ? The interest of mankind
and their duty are the fame thing. It is
or.ly because people arc unenlightened,
that their, ideas of those objects should ev
r be so far separated as not to be expressed
by the fame word. Nature made them
alike, and why should man make them
different?
Parallel between the Characters of
Mejfrs. Pitt and Fox.
TWO rival statesmen divide the opini- I
on of the public—opposite in tempera
ment, edecation, system, and in whatever
eonftitutes character. Shaded by the pro
phetic mantle of his father, there ivas in
the firft appearance of the one, something
of sublimity; splendid abilities, unusual
fanftiiy of manners, bespoke and juftified’
the confidence of his country. Raised at
once to a high station, pressed by business
that mull be instantly performed, he was
obliged to accept of assistance from meu
hackneyed in the ways of office, and bv
degrees was compeled to relinquish the fa
vorite honorable resolutions ofhisyouth.
He did not consort with men who marked
his firft deviations.—Courtiers are not al
ways furnilhed with a moral plumb rule
toadjuft the rectitude of a friend, though
they sometimes apply it rather awkwardly
to defe£t the obliquity of an enemy.—The
unbounded confidence efthe public tempt
ed the frailty of hi, nature, and hefcrupled
not to impose a little upon thepeople, who
had imposed so much upon themlclves.
I The other statesman had a charafter to
make. With the exuberant animation
w nchufually accompanies genius, he ran
the eccentric round of diifipation. But
this to him was a short and faiutarv experi
ment : The fame social nature at his firft
entrance upon his political career led him
to tolerate, perhaps to imitate hisccmpani
ons: But his taste and judgment soon dis
dained the mean arts and sordid objects of
inferior ambition. His moral chara&er
has been gradually formed by the convic
tion of his understanding, and perhaps not
a Angle year has been added to his life,
which has not added to his virtue.
The philfophic eye will perceive the in
fluence of chara&er not only in the con
duct of affairs, but in the deliberation of
the senate. When the melodious voice of
che minister steals upon the ear, when he
leads us “ through many a bout of length
ened sweetness,” far away from the
abje<ft which we fought, we feel as if
our understandings had beed convinced,
when our ienfes only have been gratified.
When he afTutr.es the tone of argument,
we admire the lucid order, the beautiful
connexion, the high polish of his oration.
It is true the parts are put together with
dexterity: The joinings and defers in the
materials areexquifitely concealed by work
manship. The varnish is so delicate, that
no ruyde hand ventures to deface it. But
it yields to time, and reveals the
wretched imterials which it covered, we
are amazedjo fee so much (kill and inge
nuity bestowed upon such a worthless fa
bric.
His opponent rises—we forget the ora
tor, and sympathize with every feeling of
the man. With the energy of a master
hand, he (trikes out at every blow a dif
tinft idea. He never spins the flight gos
samer of sophistry, to catch the feeble and
fluttering attention; but with herculean
nerve, we fee him forge out, link by link,
the chain of demonstration. There is no
pause, no respite, till the maflive length is
complete and rivetted round the mind.
ON THE CULTIVATION OF
POTATOES.
THIS root delights most in rich loom,
but not too moist: Wet land producing
too much top and watery fruit, which will
not keep through the winter and always
strong and unpleasant to the taste. Very
dry land produces a frnall crop, and nurly
fruit.—Land that is apt to bake, as we
commonly phrase it, fliould always be a
voided.
The earth, for this crop (hould be well
ploughed, and kept clear of weeds, but not
shady, as an orchard, &c. But the princi
pal error in tending a field of potatoes is
the enormous hilling. I have found by
experience, that if potatoes are planted in
a mellow foil, they need scarcely any hil
ling; they will bed themfclves at the dis
tance from the furface of the ground which
gives them the greatest advantage ofnour
ifhment ; this depth, I have observed is
generally about four inches, and this depth
the plant finds something which I will ven
ture tocall inftinft ; it stems to be so much
like it, but in a lower degree, or that prin
ciple, or rather security in the lowed or
der of the brute creation.
If the earth in which you plant potatoes,
fliould be hard, and not yield to the pref
lure of the roots it will then be neceflary
to hill them, but great care (hould be tak
en not to earth them too much j never let
them be covered above four inches, and
this hilling must be given with diferetion,
for if they have bedded themfelves.as they
will in mellow land, four inches, and you
add four inches more earth, you fuffocate
the fruit.—Take an example: Potatoes,
just before the blodom,begin to formtheir
bulbs, if you leave them now, the fruit
will grow rapidly, but if you (hould add
earth to the hill, the young bulbs, for want
of that air that can pervade four inches of
the earth, willpcrifli, and others will sprout
above them ; this will be the progress of
nature, so long as you continue to burden
them with earth. Therefore to procure ■
an early crop of potatoes, be sure to give
them your last earth as soon as the plant
is big enough to receive it, when they
have left off earthing them, they will begin
to vegetate and increase with great rapidi
ty, but will not while you keep burdening
them. Thus much, at present as to the
culture—a word relative to the time of
gathering this crop must conclude this ef
jay. Every production of the earth has
its time of maturity, consequently the po
tatoes, if you harvest them before they are
ripe, the juice will be crude ; they will not
keep so well as if fuffered to grow longer,
the sign of ripeness of this fruit is the turn
ing and fading of the lets, and (hrinkina
of the (talk. It is remarkable in almost
all bulbous roots, especially the oqion and
potatoe, that they receive firftnqiirifliment
from the root, and (inifh their growth by
what they receive from the top.
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