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‘* POET Rr. I 4 —• C9pesfo/>*m*- dor the Georgia &c Carolina Gazette. Address to Liberty. O Liberty ! celefi'al maid , The fwectcft gift of Heav'n! i These cheenn t g countenance con vey'd, * * To man ablcfiing giv'n. IVith thy fccicty, ifblcft, IHhat'er my let my be, Still will I count the event hcjl If ever cheer'd by thee. If thou art kind , /ho poor, I'!/mile; Nor heed fate's adverse dart: And jlill the weary lours beguile, Less poignant to my heart. With tho'tsef thee, the brow of age , Refines a lochferene ; The bed off chiefs,ly the sage, Less terrible is fesn. By thee , the wretched captive's hearty Is taught to leap with joy : To Jlav'ry thou doji imp arty A thought, which cannot cloy. life's without thee a difnal wafe ! O r faculties are cramp'd y Nature is blunted , and our taste Deprav'dy our fouls are damp'd. Oh then y fweet t( mountain nymph” do grant , That I may fill defy, The forms of fate, and never want , 1 he sweets of Liberty ! w. • i ■- A N E C D 0 TE. A clergyman espied in a poor la borer's gay den ten bee hives ; tena cious of his tytheSy he exclaimed, <( Johyiy so you have got ten bee hivesy one I claim as rector oj the parijhfceyou bring it to myhoufa%” The man shortly after took it. and, enhis arrived at the roller's, was ordered to carry it into the garden ; tc No,” fays he, u where's maj ter s” On being foewn into the parlor , where the reverend divine fat , “ here,” said he <c I've bro't your bees, but the hive's mine, for ! ~-n me but I give two pence for it.” He then JJoock out the bees, cce’hsy He. from the hive and car y. and t eff with him ; and left the pur]on to make the befl he could of the indufrious and enraged inf ells ON THE LOVE OF LIFE. BY DR. GOLDSMITH. Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, encreafes our desire of living. These dangers which, in the vigor cfyouth, we had learned to dejpife, ajfumc new terrors as we grow oil. Our caution increasing as our years increase, fear becomes at las the prevailing pajjion of the mind; and tbsfmall remainder cf life is taka: up in ufclefs efforts to keep off cur cud , or provide for a continued ex fence. Strange coni’ radii on in our na ture, and to which even the wfe are liable ! If Ifhculcl idgc of that part of life which lies ‘'bet . -r me by that which I have already fen the prcfpeli is hideous. r yperi mice tens vie, that ;; y pas enjoyments have brought no real feting' ; and fenfatien a fires me, that these 1 have felt are freager than these which arc yet i-j came. 1’ t ex- perience andfenfallot, hi ; aln per suade ; hope, mere powerful than either, drejfes cut the difiant prof pelt in fancied beauty feme hap pinqs in long perfpeidive, Jlill beckons me to pursue ; and, like a losing gamefier, every new disap pointment encreafes my ardor to continue the game. Whence then is this increasing love cf life* which grows upon us with our years ? whence comes it that we thus make greater cforts to preserve our ex fence, at a pe riod when it becomes scarce worth our keeping f Is it that nature, attentive to the preservation of man kind, encreafes our wishes to live, while foe legfons cur enjoyments ; and as foe robs the senses of every pie afire, equips imagination in the spoils ! Life would be infupportta- ble to an old man, who, loaded with infrmitits, feared death no more them when in the vigor of manhood ; the numberless calami ties of decaying nature, and the confcicufnefs of surviving every pic afire, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the feene of misery j but happily the contempt of death f erf akes him at a time when it could only be pre judicial ; and life acquires an im aginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more. Our attachment to every objefl around us encreafes, in general, from the length cf cur ’acquain tance with it. “ 1 would net chufe,” fays a French Fhilofopher, “to fee an oldpoft pulled up, with which I had been long acquainted.” A mind long habituated to a cer tain set cj objedls, znfenfibly be comes fond of feeing them ; visits them from habit, and parts from them with re lull mice: from hence proceeds the avarice of the old in every kind cf poffcffon ; they love the world and all that it produces ; they love life and all its advanta ges ■, not because it gives them plea- Jure, but because they have kmwn it long , t Ckinvang the Chafe, afeending toe throne of China, commanded that all who were unjustly detain ed in prifen during the preceding reigns Jhould beset free. Among the number who came to thank their deliverer on this occaficn, there appeared a majefic old man, who falling at the emperor's feet, addrejjed him as follows: <c Great “father cf China behold a wretch “ now eighty five years old, who “ was font up in a dungeon at the “ age of twenty two. I was im “ prifined, though a f ranger to “ crime, or without ‘'being even “ confronted by my accusers. I “ have now lived in solitude and “ darkness for more than fifty “ years, and am grown familiar <c with dfttrefs. As yet dazzled “ with thefplendcr of that fun to <c which yen have restored me, I <c have been wandering the fir eels (t find out feme friend that u would assist, cr relieve, or re member me ; but my friends, my “ family, and relations, are all “ dead, and lam fey got ten, Per r,l‘tt me then, O Chinn ang, to <c wear out the wretched remains fC of life in my former prifen the :s walls cf my dungeon are to me “ mr: pie a frig than the moft e fiately palace: l have not long to Ive, and foall be unhappy <f except I spend the rest oj my <c days where my youth was pas “ fed in O-f fnion from ~,WV you Were pie fed toreleafe m. r lhe old man's pcfjicn for con finement is similar to that we ah \ have for life. JVc are habituated to the prison, we lock round with \ dfcontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length . of our captivity only encreafes cur fend nejs for the cell. ‘The trees ws . have planted, the heufes we have built, or the we have be gotten, all serve to bind us closer to the earth, and embitter our parting. Life fees the young like anew acquaintance ; the compa nion as set unexhaufted, is at once inftruliive and amuftng ; its com pany pleases, yet, for all this, it is but little regarded. Tc us, who are declined in years, life appears like an old friend ; its jefis have been anticipated in former conver- f alien it has no new fiory to make us /mile, kg new improve~ ■ went with which to furprize, yet Jlill we love it, husband the waf ting treasure with incteafedfru gality, and feel all the. poignancy of anguish in the fatalfeparation. Sir Philip Mor daunt was young beautiful,’ fine ere, brave, an Eu glifhman. He had a complete for tune of his own, and the love cf the king his wafer, which was equivalent to riches. Life opened all her treasures before him, and pr crafted a long J'uccejfm of hap pinejs. He came, tafled of the entertainment, but was disgusted even at the beginning. He pro fefed an averficn to living ; was ■ tired of walking round the fame circle ; had tried every enjoyment, any found them all grown weaker at every repetition. “ If life be, in youth, so dftpleafuig,” cried he to himfelf, Ct what will it appear <c when age comes on ? If it be “at present indifferent, fare ‘it iC will then be execrable.” This thought embittered every refielri on 3 till, at last, with all the sere nity of perverted reason, he ended the debate with apificl! Had this felf-deluded man been apprized, | that exftlsnee grows more desirable [ to us the longer we exiji% he would ! have then faced old age without j fijrinking ;he would have boldly , dared to live andferved thatfo t ciety by his future ajfiduity, which he basely injured by his desert ion. . “OiQO— -■ ON THE DREAD OF THUNDER. Beads difeover a consciousness I of danger at the approach cf a | thunder temped* : they leave their food ; and their looks and postures betray symptoms of fear and amazement. But birds, Ihekcred from the fatal bolts by their feathers, are fearlefs.— While the thunder roars and the dark and heavy cloud is mov ing on towards them, they are otten Icen in a playful frolick fome mood. Both are guided by an unerring inftindb. Beads are sometimes struck dead by lightning ; they are in real dan ger : and have, therefore, cause to fear. But fghtiling, which has power to rive the strongest oaks, and even the hardest tccks y Lldom, if ever, pafles between the feathers, and pierces the bo dies of birds. * The latter, as if conscious of their fafety ; and, at the fame time, exhilerated by the change of air, that begins to be purifyed and sweetened by * cxplofions from the gathering c: ouds, and ifcover m<ik sos gi?, s and they have indv;:-d r-\V anv for their expreili a marks cf joy. Man, exalted b” reafen, srd ’ fall more by religion, fhculd hy this, as in all other refpefts, a higher part than the beads cl the Held and the fowls of the air, A thunder and temped orders one of the fublimefc Irenes in nature; and its sublimity n blended with a degree of awful nefs proportionate to which • thoughtlels, and much more, a frolickfome levity, during such a fcenc, though becoming bird?, would be highly unbecoming men and women. On the other hand, they fnould not difeover the ftopid amazement, nor the * frantic fright of beads. Thunder and lightning are necessary in the grand operations of nature : they are (t Mi lifters of good” to mankind, and their general tendency is to save life rather than to destroy it. By killing noxious vapours and cla rifying and sweetening the ah", ♦ they render it v/holefcme and prevent the spread of peililencc and other mortal diseases. For one pei son destroyed b; light ning, thousands and hundreds of thousands, would be destroy ed by poisons and mortal conta gions in the atmosphere, if this powerful instrument to cleanse it were never used. The fear arising from thunder storms should therefore be, in a manner, loft in gratitude for the general good, which they occa sion j and parents instead of set ting before their children on such occasions., an example of con firmation and wild affright, which would tend to render them miserable through life, should endeavor to fortify their minds by arguments drawn from reason, philosophy and religion. * It is the prattlee of feme peo ple always to rife from their bed when thunder temp efts happen during the night ferf on ; whereat a bed, filled with feathers, is the fafeft fit nation that can be found. ON DEATH. By an unalterable decree of flea*’ ven, iC it is appointed to all men once to die and we are daily so surrounded with accidents out of the common road to the zrave, that it is rather a wonder we should ( live a day, that linger threefcorc years.—Death mocks and derides the moft prudent care and forefight of the wisest mortals that endeavor to avoid it, by hastening their ends by the fame means they thought to prevent it. The only way r.ct to be furprfted by death, is to be al ways provided to die, and then it cannot come toofoon. THE GOOD HOUSE-JFIFE. - A good wife fKidd be like three things three things Jhe jhould not be He. ; i. The ftoould be like a fuail always keeping within her own bottfe j but she bhcufd not be like afnail , to carry all !he has upon her back. 2. otss jucu.a dc /•an ceijo, to fpeah when . jc m fpeken to ; but Jhe should not be Hie an echo, al ways to have ihe left word ! 3. The fyy.dd be Idea town clock, always keep tine and re gularity ; but foe ftoould not be like a town click, to fpeah so loud that .11 the town may hear hei !