The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-02-24 00:00:00, page 4

Miscellany.
From the Newhampshire Journal &c.
the SIMPLIST.
Messrs. Editors,
THIS sermon I dedicate to th Administrators of
' Pbyfick.
In the I Chap, of Pure Nature are writ
ten these Sylables, i verfe,~
SIM-PLIC-ITY.
TO mend the tabernacles which
the offsprings of God inhabit is
your craft. And hit thunder will
sooner or later make cobblers tremble,
who go to work upon these wonder
ful buildings in defiance or my text ;
and thoie who fuffer them would
be but served, if they should fuffer
the loss of their clay. The former
of these animal bodies it God. And;
for cobblers to think of mending or
repairing them, beggars arrogance it
felf. All away ye cobblers, you are
not fit to be employed in taking
the boufa of malefadois. Cbriftians,
how can ye second their preemption
and so poftitute your bodies ? —Be
correded and remember your Crea
tor in this matter ; and when any one
of us firids his tabernacle in need of
repairing, let him employ an artist
though it should cost him a ffiiner.
And ye Artists, look to your hon
our ; your employment is exalted.
Your calling is honourable ; you are
called to repair and mend what your
Creator made.=-Be careful that you
deal altogether in fim-ples, which^
cobbler would compound and destroy
the healing qualities of the whole ;
but which you have skill to combine
with great increase of reftotative vir
tue. The poor must have your, help,
ar well as the rich, let them ihare your
attention equally, but let the former
remain undisturbed in possession of the
one cow that supports the family.
Cape of Good Hope, Jan. io, 1793.
What bluffing is equal beside !
How vafth, dominion and power !
But while in amazement I flood.
And with rapture her charms did admire,
Old Time, that fierce monger, I view'd
Devour viflims, incense, and fire.
O'erwhelmd with confufon and dread,
I Junk down in anguish profound ;
When Reason appear'd to my aid,'
And lifting me up from the ground ;
In accents that jeem'd quite divine,
And with looks that be(poke her m, friend.
To facet Senfbility's ferine.
She hade me her footfeps attend.
There you'll find me furronded, the (aid.
With Innocence, PLdJuyfy and 'Jo, ;
And your path I'll ffitiUfeft lead,
Thro', Virtue'sfra^flfmplo,.
For would you Ferc^ty^n.
Let Wisdom bja„CTftide ^
And the treafureffflnfyflree obtain.
But avoid affm&nW arid pride.
O Reason thou haft rot deceiv'd,
No longer for Beaut, I pine ;
Thoje charms which I bliss once believed.
Now enlighten'd, I chearful refgn.
The Pierides.
Beauty giving place to reason.
ONE moru as mj fancy did ft ra,
Amid the C,therein grove.
Methought / had enter'd the way,
Which led to the palace of Love.
For wand'ring the woodbines among,
A temple appear'd to my view ;
This fabric, I said, does belong,
res. Love ! it is sacred toyou.
But my errour did quickly appear :
Twas to Beaut, the temple was rais'd ;
Love bimfelf was a worJhipper there,
And the Goddejs with fatter, prais'd,
There, Beaut, jat, proud of her charms,
♦With Hebe attending the while ;
The Graces jupported her arms, 8
And pleasure appear'd in her jmile.
Ifaw little Cupid prepare,
And with art man, altars adorn ;
Which, futt' ring his wings with ar. air,
In an infant he'd oft overturn.
Tbefe altars were form'd but of jand,
Which theJlighteft effedl would deftfoy ;
No architeß elje ever plan'd,
Or built like this roguijhyoung boy.
The Goddejs of youthfraigbt was jeen.
To rebuild and adorn them anew,
And a tbouf and young Loves in her train,
With ardour the work did pursue.
0 Beaut, ! I jecretl, cried,
- Since Love does tty charms thus adore ;
THIS tree is the largest produc
tion of the whole vegetable
kingdom. The trunk is not above
12 or 15 feet high, but from 65 to
78 feet round. The ioweft braches
excend almost horizontally, and as they
are about 60 feet in length, their own
weight bends their extremities co the
ground, and thus they form an hemis
pherical mass of verdure about one
hundred and twenty or ohe hundred
and thirty feet diameter.
The roots extend as far as the
branches. That in the middle forms
a pivot, which penetrates a great way
into the earth, the rest spread near the
furface thereof.
The flowers are in proportion tothe
size of the tree ; and are followed by
an oblong fruit pointed at both ends,
about ten inches long, 5 or 6 broad,
covered with a kind of greenish down,
under which is a ligneous rind, hard
and almost black, marked with rays
which divide it lengthways into sides.
This fruit hangs to the tree by a pe
dicle two feet long and an inch diam
eter. It contains a whitish , (porgy
juicy substance, of an acid taste, and
feeds of a brown colour, and the shape
of a kidney-bean. The pulp that
surrounds the fe feedsis powdered when
dry, and brought into Europe from
rhe Levant under the name of terra
Jigillala Lemuia.
This tree is the only species of the
genus called by Linnaeus, adanfonia.
The Negroes use the bark of this
tree, for to cool them in fevers—and
is used against all Epidemic Fevers of
their country.
Os a bappy Life, and wherein it
conjifts.
THERE is not any thing in this
world, perhaps, that is more
talkedof, and less undefftood, than
the business of a happy life, it is ev
ery man's with, and Design ; and yet
not ons of a thousand that knows'
wherein that happirefs consists. We
live however in a blind and eager
purfuic of it ; and the more haste we
make in a wrong wav, the farther we
are from our journey's end. Let us
therefore firft confider. What "it is
we would be at; and secondly, which
is the readied way to compafi it. If
we be right, we (hall find every day
how much we improve ; but if we
either follow the cry, or the track of
people that are out of the way, we
must expert to be milled and co con
tinue our Days in wandering and er
ror. Wherefore it highly concerns
us to take rong with us a fkilful
guide ; for it is not in this, as in oth
er voyages, where the highway brings
us to our place of repose ; or, if a man
should happen to be ought, where
the inhabitants might fee him right
again : But, on the contrary, the
beaten road is he e the most danger
ous, and the people, instead of help
ing us, misguide us. Let us not
therefore follow, like beasts, but rath
er govern ourselves by reason than
by example. It fares with us in hu
man life, as in a routed army ; one
stumbles firft, and then another falls
upon him, and so they follow one
upon the neck of another, till the
whole field comes to be but one heap
of mifcarrisges. And the mifehief is,
that the number of the multitude
carries it against truth and justice ; so
that we must leave the crowd, if we
would be happy ; for the question of
a happy life is not to be decided by
vote: Nay, so far from it, that plu
rality of voices is still an argument
of the wrong; the common people
find ic easier to believe than to judge;
A j'bori Difription of tie BAOBAByOr AAHO
BAB ; a Tree growing in AFRICA, and
Jome other Places.
[Moth. MA. Die.)
and content themselves with what is
usual ; never examining whether it
be good or no. By the common
people is intended the man of title,
as well as the clouted shoe ; tor
I do not diftingoifh them by the eye,
but by the mind, which is the proper
judge of the nan. Worldly felicity,
I know makes the head giddy ; but
if ever a man comes to himfelf again,
he will confefs, that whatsoever he has
done, he wishes undone; and, that
the things he feared, were better than
those he prayed for.
The true felicity of life is to be
free from pertubations ; to under
stand our duties towards God and
man ; to erjoy the prefect, without
any anxious dependence upon the fu
ture. Not to amuse ourselves with
either hopes or fears, but to rest fatis
fied with what we have, which is a
bundaotly fufficient ; for he chat is
so, wants nothing. The greatest
blessings of mankind are within us,
and within our reach ; but we shut
our eyes, and, like people in the
dark, we fall foul upon the very thing
we search for, without finding it.
Tranquility is a certain equali
ty of mind, which no condition of
fortune can either exalt or depress.
Nothing can make it left ; for, it is
the state of human perfedion : I: rais
es us as high as we can go; and makes
every man his own fopporter ; where
as he that is borne up by any thingelfe
may fall. .He that judges aright, and
perseveres in it, enjoys a perpetual
calm: He takes a true profedtof
things ; he observes an order, meas
ure, a decorum in all his actions : He
has benevolence in his nature ; he
fqyares his life according to reason ;
and draws to himfelf love and admi
ration. Without a certain, and an
unchangable judgement, all the rest is
but fluAuation : But, he that always
wills and nills the fame thing, is un
doubtedly in the right. Liberty and
serenity of mind must necessarily en
;fue upon the mattering of those things
which either allure, or affiight us ;
when, instead of these flalhy pleasures
(which even at the best are both vain
and hurtful together), we shall find
ourselves possessed of joys transport
ing, and everlasting. It must be a
found mind that makes a happy
man ; there must be a conftaocy in
all conditions ; a care for the things
of this world, but without trouble ;
and such an indifferency for the boun
ties of fortune, that either with them,
or without them, we may live con
tentedly. There must be neither la
mentation, nor quarrelling, nor doth,
nor fear ; for it makes a discord in a
man's life. He that fears, serves.
The joy of a wife man Hands firm
without interruption : In all places, at
all times, and in all conditions, his
thoughts are cheerful and quiet; As
it never came in to him from with
out; so it will never leave him ; but,
is born within him, and infeperable
from him ; it is a folicitcus life that
is egged on with the hope of any
thing, though never so open anef ea
sy ; nay, though a man should never
fuffer any fort of disappointment. I
do not speak this, either as a bar to
the fair enjoyment of lawful pleafurer,
or to the gentle flatteries of reasona
ble expectations : But, on the con
trary, 1 would have men to be always
in good humour ; provided that it
arises from their own fouls and be
cherished in their own breasts. Oth
er delights# are trivial ; they may
±fmooth the brow, but they do not
fill, and affeft the heart. , True joy
is a serene and sober motion ; and
they are miserably out, that take
laughing for rejoicing: The feat of
it is within,and there is no chearfulnefs
Alfo-—2OO acres in Andover,
in jaid counts —on one lot of which is a large be
ginning for improvements made.
Any perjon, inclining to purchaje, may bavk
good and reasonable terms, b, applying to ihejub-
Jeriber, living in laid Weare.
PETER WEARE. :
Weare, Feb. 12, 1794, 69
IN the foutberl, part of Weare, in the count, of
Hi'JJborougb, containing,
Between 50 and 60 acres of Land,
which is excc lent —the meft of it under good im
provement —with buildings—and
A good young Orchard thereon.
Rockingham ^ ? Court of Probate, ],•
NOTICE is berth, gioin that Solomon Dow,
has exhibited bis account of bis adminifra
tion of the est ate of Richard Dow, late of Bow, in
said county, gentleman, deceased, represented injol
vent —And that the fame will be examined in or
der for allowance, atthe Probate Court, to be bol
den at Epsom, in and for said county, on th third
IVednefday of May next, at eleven of the clock in
theforenoon..
By order of the judge;
68 Wm. P ARKER, Reg.
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Public Au&ion.
TO BE SOLD,
By PUBLIC AUCTION,
On the 20th da, of February, current,
lit the boufe of Lt. Winthrop Carter, innholder
in Bofcawen,
At two o'clock in the afternoon,
An excellent LOT of LAND,
SITUATED in Bofcawen, within half a
mile of tbe meeting house, on the College road
leadingfrom Bofcawen to Salfbury ; with a
Large, good, new Barn upon tie
premises ; thirty acres under improvement ; twen
ty 'f^ft 1 ""© and ten of mowing and tillage ;
and asfine a growth of white oak timber onfaia
lot, as any in the country.—Also,
Afmall Place, adjoining faid'
premises—containing one acre and a half —under -
good improvement—with a
Convenient new Dwelling House,
one flory high—and a small barnframe.
A very suitable place for a merchant.
Jny person inclining to treat
for the above at private,ale, may know the terms
bj a{ plying to .
NATHANIEL GREEN, 4
of jaid Bofcawen.^
Bofcawen, February 6th, 1794. 68
N. B. Twelve months credit will
be given, and longer, if wanted.
Frederick Foster ,
REQUESTS all these who are indebted to
him for the Mirrour, to make immediate
payment. Feb. 12.
like the refolmio^ cf a brave mir. ,
that has lort% e order its feet. H•
that can look death in the face, an.?
bid ic welcome ; open his door to
poverty, and bridle his appetite; this
is the man whom providence has el
tablifhrd in the pcff ffion of inviola
ble delights. The pieafures of the
vulgar are ungrounded, thin, and fr
perficiri ; but the ocher are solid ind
eternal. As the body ufell is rather
a necessary thing, than a great ; so the
contorts of it are but temporary and
vain ; be sides that, without extraor
dinary moderation, their end is only
pain and repentance. Whereas, a
peaceful confidence, honest thoughts,
virtuous actions, and ^n indifference
for casual events, are blessings with
out end, latiety, or measure. This
confumtnated fiate of felicity is only
a submission to the dilates of right
nature: The foundation of it is wis
dom and virtue ; the knowledge of
what we cught to do, and the con
formity of the will co that knowl
edge.
ALL perjons who have any demands on the
estate of Nehemiah Brown, late of Candia,
deceased, reprefated injolvent, are hereby notified
to bring in their accounts to the fubferiber for fet
element ; and all, who are indebted, -OttHfwfled
to make immediate payment.
NATHAN BROWN, admirtiftrator,
Candia, Feb. 13, 1794. 69
Nehemiah Brown's Estate.
A FARM for lale,