depression whereas he who is of fresh as a man at the bottom of ladder runs very little risk of breaking his neck by tumbling to the top the very essence of true wisdom which consists in knowing when we ought u be j and was di ix much about the same time with that secret that thing is and of q in consequence of which your wise men have ev been the of the human race it as an in mark of genius to be distressed without since any man may be miserable in time of o but is the philosopher alone who can discover cause lor grief in the veiy hour of prosperity according to the principle have just advanced we that the colony of new which under the re of the renowned van had flourished in such and serenity is now paying for its and the enormous debt of which it contracted foes it from the of new yet in its infancy is kept alarm and its commander william the answers the but expressive idea of f in a of troubles while busily engaged his bitter enemies he on one side we find him suddenly in another quarter and by other a of the conduct of peter an to queen of had settled themselves and erected south or river within the boundaries claimed by the government of the new his is mute as to the of their first landing an history of their red pretensions to the soil and the be lamented as thi same colony of will � be found most materially to affect not only the if the but of the world at large in whatever manner therefore this of first took possession of the country it is that in they a and ae to the off usage of his declared himself of all the adjacent country under the name of the province of new no sooner did this reach the ears of the than like a lane spirited he broke into a violent rage and calling together his council the most in the longest speech ever been heard in the colony since the of ten breeches and tough breeches having vent to the first of his he had resort to his measure of and one hot in the first year of his reign peter that the territory on the south river had time out of mind been in possession ei the having been fi and sealed with their blood the latter sentence would convey an idea of war and were we not relieved the information that it merely related to a fi y in whidi half a dozen had been killed by die indians in their benevolent attempts to establish a colony and promote by this it will be seen that william j though a very small man delighted in big expressions and was much given to a figure in generally cultivated by your little great men called a figure which has been found of infinite service among many of his and which has helped to the grandeur of many a mighty important but windy magistrate nor can resist in this place new york observing how much my beloved country is indebted to this same figure of for certain of her greatest and who by dint of big words periods and windy doctrines are kept afloat on the surface of as are up by blown � the against concluded by ordering the self governor and his gang of to leave the country under penalty of the high displeasure and inevitable vengeance of the government of the this strong measure however does not seem to have had a whit more than its which had been thundered against the � the resolutely held on to the territory they had taken possession of whereupon mi rs for the present remained in that should put up with this insolent obstinacy in the would appear with his temperament but we find that about this time the little man had bis hands full and with one annoyance and another was kept continually on the there is a certain description of active who by shrewd management contrive always to have a hundred irons on the every one of which must be immediately attended to who are ever full of and up the public and the national a� s so as to make nine holes where they mend one � stopping and with whatever comes first to hand like the i have mentioned old clothes in broken windows of this class of was william the and had he only been blessed with powers equal to his zeal or his zeal been by a discretion there is very doubt but he would have made the greatest governor of his size on record the renowned governor of the island of alone y history of the great defect of s was no man be more ready to stand forth m m hour of emergency yet he was so intent upon the national that he suffered the enemy to its head in other words whatever precaution fer safety he adopted he was so upon r it cheap that he rendered it all this was a consequence of his at the where having acquired a he was ever after a great of continually dipping into bo s without ever studying to the bottom of any subject so that he had the of all kinds of authors in his in some of these he stumbled over a grand political word which with his customary facility he immediately into his great scheme of government to the and m of the honest province of and the eternal of all rulers in vain have i over the of the the of the jews the of the a the magic of the the of the english the of the or the of the indians to discover where the little man first laid his eyes on this terrible word r the that famous 