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SPOKEN AGAINST.
VV r hat if people do speak against you ?
Let them feel that you are able to bear it. —
What is there gained by stopping to correct
every word that is whispered to your discred
it ? Lies will die if let alone; but if you re
peat them to this one and another, because
your enemies had the imprudence to make
them, you but keep the fire burning and open
the way for a dozen slanders. Keep on your
course and go straightforward and trouble not
your head about what is repeated, and you
will feel all the better and wear a less fright
ful face. Slander never killed a sterling char
acter and it never will. Her coat will not
sit upon him, without a pull here and a jerk
there, and a twist below, and while this work
is going on, the false words are forgotten by
the multitude. Let us—you and 1 reader —re-
peat what another hath said in rhyme and if
we have been talked about or slandered, it
will do us as much good as a fry at Diamond
Cove :
“ Not all they say or do, can make
My head, or tooth, or finger ache,
Nor mar my shape, nor scar my face,
Nor put one feature out of place,
Nor will ten thousand lies,
Make me less virtuous, learned or wise ;
The most effectual way to balk
Their malice is, to let them talk.”
DEATH’S DOINGS.
“ I am now worth one hundred thousand
pounds,” said old Gregory, as he ascended a
hill, which commanded a full prospect of an
estate he had just purchased; “I am now
worth one hundred thousand pounds, and
here,” said he, “I’ll plant an orchard : and on
that Spot I’ll have a pinery—
u Yon farm houses shall come down,” said
old Gregory, “ they interupt my view.”
“Then what will become of the farmers'?”
asked the steward, who attended him.
“That’s their business,” answered old Gre
gory.
“ And that mill must not stand upon the
stream,” said old Gregory.
“Then, how will the villagers grind their
corn asked the steward.
“That’s not my business,” answered old
Gregory.
So old Gregory returned home—ate a hear
ty supper—drank a bottle of port —smoked
two pipes of tobacco—and fell into a profound
slumber —and awoke no more; and the farm
ers reside on their lands—and the mill stands
upon the stream —and the villagers rejoice
that Death did “business” with old Gregory.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.
In The Times, a few days since, appeared
the following advertisement:—“ To School
Assistants. —Wanted, a respectable gentle
man of good character, capable of teaching
the classics as far as Homer, and Virgil. Ap
ply, &c. &c. A day or two after the above
had appeared, the gentleman to whom appli
cation was to be made recieved a letter as fol
lows : —“ Sir—With reference to an advertise
ment which were inserted in The Times news
paper a few days since, respecting a school
assistant, I beg to state that 1 should be hap
py to fill that situation; but as most of my
/rends reside in London, and not knowing
how far Homer and Virgil is from town, I beg
to state that I should not like to engage to
teach the classics farther than Hammersmith
or Turnham Green, or at the very utmost dis
tance, farther than Brentford. tVating your
reply, I am, Sir, &c. &c.
“John Sparks.”
The schoolmaster, judging of the classical
abilities of this “ youth of promise,” by the
wisdom displayed in his letter, considered
him too dull a spark for the situation, and
his letter remained unanswered. (This puts
us in mind of a person who once advertised
for a “ strong coal heaver, ” and a poor man cal
ling upon him the day after, saying, “ he had
not got such a thing as a ‘ strong coal heaver,’
but he had brought a ‘■strong"coal scuttle ,’
made of the best iron ; and if that would an
swer the purpose, he should have it a bar
gain.”) — Times, Ist January, 1827.
MARRIAGE OF THE SEA.
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sea every year.
Those who judge of institutions by their
appearance only, think this ceremony an in
decent and extravagant vanity; they imagine
that the Venitians annually solemnize this
festival, because they believe themselves to
be masters of the sea. But the wedding of |
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the sea is performed with the most noble in
tentions.
The sea is the symbol of the republic : of
which the doge is the first magistrate, but not
the master: nor do the Venitians wish that
he should become so. Among the barriers
to his domination, they rank this custom,
which reminds him that he has no more au
thority over the republic, which he governs
with the senate, than he has over the sea,
notwithstanding the marriage he is obliged
to celebrate with her. The ceremony sym
bolizes the limits of his power, and the na
ture of his obligations.
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