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Miscellaneous. Tilt. C Uhl STUN FEMALE. “ tltA, HE 1 ALI'UGETHEH LOVELY.*’ 1 H'k'U lii wneu in Ut:<tuL) lrea*d, Wn u youthful hope inspired her breast, IVhert live* tie whom ihou lovest best*? Bhe aaul—in Heaven, 1 ank‘d her when sbe fondly press'd Her Muniiug infant (u her breast, “Where lives tl • whom thou loves heat? She said—in Heaven. I ask'd her when her bloom wa lost, Wuen all her earthly hopes were cross'll. Where lives tin whom thou Invest most/ She said—m Heaven. | her in her hymn groan, “Who is this brightest, loveliest one? ’Ti* liOD she cried, My alone— And went to Heaven. BBMMaa tm .■ .■ ggaa THE BIBLE. A nation must he truly bles sed if it were governed by n other laws than those of this blessed book; it is so complete a system, that nothing can Ik* add tl to it: it contains every thing needful to ho known or done; it a fiords a copy for a king, limit xvii 18, and anile for a subject: it gives instruction and counsel to a senate; autho rity and direction fora tnugis tiate; it cautions a witness; re quires an impartial veil ct of a jury, and furnishes the judge with his sent nee: <t sets the husband as lord of the house hold, and the wife as mistress of the table: tells him how to rule, and her how to manage: it entails honor to parents, ant] enjoins ohedienrp to children; it prescribes and limits the sway of the sovereign, the rule of the ruler, and authority of the master, commands the sub jects to honor, and the servants to obey, and promises the bles sing and protection of its au thor to all that walk by its rules. It gives direction for weddings and for burials; it promises food and raiment, and limits the use of both; it points on? a faithful and an Kternal fiimr dian to the departing husband and lather; tells him with whom to leave his fatherless children, and in whom his wid >\v is m trust, Jeremiah xlix, it; and promises a father to the for mer, and a husband to the hit ter; it teaches a man how to s t Ins house in order, and how to make his will; it appoints a dowry for a wife, and entails the right of the first born, and shews how the younger branch es shall be left; it defends the rights of all; and reveals ven geance to every defrauder, over-leather and oppressor It is the first hook, the best book, and the oldest hook in the world; it contains the choi cest matter; gives the best in struction; and affords the great est pleasure and satisfaction that ever was revealed; it con tarns the best of laws, and pro foundest mysteries that ever was penned. It brings the best tidings, and affords the best comfort to the enquiring and disconsolate; it exhibits life and immortality, and shews the way to glory; it is a brief re cital of all that is past, and a certain prediction ol all that is to come; it settles all matters| in debate, resolves all doubts, and eases the mind and con cience of all their scruples. It reveals the only living and true God, and shews the only way to him ; and sets aside all other gods, and describes the vamty ot them. In short, it is a book of laws, to shew right anil wrong; a book of wisdom, mat condemns all folly, and makes the foolish wise; and a book of truth, that detects all lies, and confutes all errors; and a book of life, and shews ilie way from cverlastingdeath. it is the most compendious hook in all the world, the most authentic and the most enter taiamg history that ever was published; it contain the most ancient antiquities, strange e vents, wonderful occurrences, heroic deeds, unparalleled wars. It describes the celes tial, terrestrial, and infernal worlds; and the origin of the angelic myriads, human tribes, and ilevelisli legions. It will instruct the most accomplished mechanic, and profoandest ar tist; it will teach tiie best rhe loiician, mil exercise ever} power of the most skillful a rithmetician, Revelation xiii. 18; puzzle the wisest anatomist and exercise the nicest critic It corrects the vain philosopher and confutes (he wise astrono mer; it exposes the subtle so phist, anil makes diviners mad. It is a complete code of laws, a perfect body of divinity, an un equalled narrative, a book of lives, a book of travels, and a book of voyages; it is the best covenant that ever was made, and the best testament that ever was signed. To under stand it, is to be wise indeed; to he ignorant of it, is to be des titute of wisdom; it is the king’s best copy, the magistrate’s best rule, the housewife’s best guide the servant’s best directory, and the young man’s best com panion It is the school boy’s spelling book, and the learned nuin's masterpiece; it contains a choice grammar for a novice, and a profound mystery for a sage; it is the ignorant man's dictionary, and the wise man's directory; it affords knowledge of witty inventions for the hu morous, and dark sayings for the grave; and it is its own in terpreter. It encourages the wise, the warrior, the swift, and the overcomer, and pro mises an eternal reward to the excellent, the conqueror, the winner, the prevalent. And that which crowns all is, that i the author is without partiality, and without hypocrisy. In WHOM IS NO VAKf ABLENESS, NOII SHADOW OF TURNING. From the New Fork . Mirror. “It was in the true spirit ofj poetry —not of romance, but of nature; that the idea was con-1 Iceivedof likening the various creations of the vegetable world to the feelings, charac ter and atributes of humanity; to the ever-varying sensations of the corporeal frame, and even to the almost inscrutable workings of the mind; the heart insensibly yields to the truth of these emblematical al lusions. because it traces in * them a continuation of that | beautiful symmetry of connex ion which pervades the won derotts mysteries of nature How exquisitely lias a kin dred thought been expanded by the pen of one who never touches the lyre without thrill ins; the bosom of sensibility with its tones: Twos a love! v thought tomar?i (he hours, As they limited in ligh away, By the opening and folding flowers That l;iug?i to the sum.ner’a day. Jilrs. lie,mans. hut the whole poem can not hut live in the memory of all who worship nature, or ren der homage to genius; and therefore we return to the subject of this number. The Jessamine — Emblem of Delicacy.. What a beautiful similitude! One of the most captivating traits of the human mind and persons is typically character ized by comparison with the sweetest ornament of du flow er garden; the delicious per fume of the jessamine is truly illustrative of that ‘breathing e manuation of the soul,’ that purity of thought, and action, which constitutes the peculiar charm of delicacy. This beau tiful shrub, with its slender branches, its delicate flowers anil its fragrant odours, loading the air with sweetness, is a most appropriate emblem of* a young and lovely female just entering upon the enjoyments of the world, when life is but a fairy dream, and all around her breathe the atmosphere of delicacy — V An<t oh! that the world had no picture but this— That all the bright forms which have &ild?d life’s hours, Might rove through its bowers, and taste of its bliss, slid be as pure as the jessamine flower.” i The fForm wood—Emblem of Anguish. The peculiar qualities of the wormwood plant are prover bially well known, and have established it as the insignia of bitter sorrow, of anguish— deep, piercing anguish In this sense it lias been used bv an old writer, thus modernized. ‘For what shall banish heartfelt sorrow, qt sweeten wormwood’s bitter pill? Where shall affliction comfort borrow, T o bid these anguished throbs be stilt?’ Medical virtues havejfeen as cribed to the decoction of wormwood, and many a thrif ty housewife hss brought its qualities to in her do mestic pharmacy; A wine produced from this plant in a. proper state of preparation, lias been found cf infinite service in arresting the progress of ! pulmonary affections; and thus I is the wormwood, whose bitter I distillation affords relief to the attenuated frame of the inval id, like many of the world that “minister to a mind diseased,” and have a tendency to restore it to “a pristine health.” LEAP YE AD. j . The following is extracted from an old volumne printed in 1(300, entitled ‘Courtship, Love and Matrimonie’— ‘Albeit, it is nowc become a parte of the Cotnmun Lawe in regard to the social relations of life, that return, theladycs have the sole priviledge, du ring the time it continued! of making love unto the n cn, which they may doe either by words or lookes, as unto them it seemeth ptoper: ami more over, no man will be entitled to the benefite of Clergy who dothe refuse to accept the of fers of a ladyc, or who dotlio in any wise tre ate her propo sal withe slight or contu sTly.* A gentleman complaining to his Boot-Maker, that a pair of boots recently sent to him were 100 short, and that lie wanted , a pair to cover the whole calf, had the following jeu (V sprit sent to him:— I'tu ee boot? were hever made (oi me, They are too short by half. 1 want them long enough, d‘yc see, To cover all the call". Why, sir,said Last, with stifled laugh, To alter them HI fry ; But if they cover all the cf They must b five feet high. Tile following veiy expres sive epitaph on a Shrew by her husband, is to be found in a churchward in Hcrtsfordshire. We tiust that those of our fair readers, who are troubled by a too incontenent inclination to make an undue use of what the apostle Paul so well describes, as the ‘unruly member* will take a hint from this maiital vengeance. * t'.r two long year?, my dame and I hived man and wile together ; But now she g gone, alas, she‘s gone, She‘s gone*—the Lord knows whither ! t hope she is not gone below, Ihe d—l could ne’er abide her; M bich makes me think Bhe‘s gone above, F"r in the last great thunder Mc hought I heard her well known voice Spi tt l ng fho clouds asunder !’ THE CABINET Is published every Saturday , by P. L. 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