The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-11-05 00:00:00, page 4

Every emotion, every affection of
the soul conspires to shew that jt was
not made for this world alone. Some
of the ancient philosophers entertained
very sublime notions of the soul's im
mortality. It was the opinion of the
Stagirite upon this subject that caused
Scaliger to exclaim, in a burst of rap
* turous applause, " Quid ais divine
vir," etc. %
We can bear up against misfortune
and open abuse; buttlere, is, in silent
contempt, something insupportable.—
To use the words of Junies, " it de
grades the mind in its own estima
tion, and forces it to recover its for
mer level by revenge.
Love and hatred are formed and
nourished by a sort of sympathy. One
does not long love, without being lov
ed ; neither do we generally bate, with
out being hated. Rochefoucauit has,
I believe, a similar sentiment.
" Friendship (says Dr. Hawkes,
worth) is the bondof reason? Love
differs from it, in possessing, for the
most part, neither “ rhyme nor rea
son^
There would be no happiness in the
* oTld, could we div^ one another's
So early is thy fragrant doom,
When I have view'd thy rapid bloom;
Oh! it has mov'd my very soul'
To think, hew like the world's control,
Is the broad mantling shade of night,
That keeps thee from the glance of light.
To me thou lookst, thou bashful flower,
Like beauty in some lonely bower,
Unlov'd, though lovely in decay,
With life-blood weeping guilt away.
Like thee, e'en though unpriz'd, serene,
Repentant beauty quits the scene,
Looks up and smiles, with fluttering breath,
Thro' the dark sullen storm of death.
Nov. 1810. HOEL.
In the infancy of printing, the con
ductors of presses were wont to sub
join some device respecting their books,
name of the printer, &c. In an edition
of " The Pragmatick Sanction," by A.
Bocard, of Paris, 1507, is to be found
this singular couplet,
Equally free; for orders and degrees
Jar not with liberty, but well consist."
Liberty is the sun of society, and
rights are emanations ; among the most
considerable of which, is the right of
subordination, the very bond ofits ex
istence. Satan is represented, by Mil-
ton, as addressing his legions thus —
" Stet liber ; hie donee fluctus formica ma-
rines
Ebibit; ettotum testudo perambulet orbem."
May this book survive, till an ant
shall have drunk the ocean dry, or a
tortoise crawled round the world.
A REFLECTION AT SEA.
See how beneath the moon-beam's smile,
Yon little billow heaves its breast,
And foams and sparkles for a while,
And murmuring then subsides to rest.
Thus man, the sport of bliss and care,
Rises on Time's eventful sea;
And, having swell'd a moment there,
Thus melts into eternity,
TO THE NIGHT-BLOOMING
CEREUS.
Surgat in fluctus undula et illa,
Irrita, tumens; etsi caduca,
Ita mortales, pectora quibus,
Angit, heu! cura, sxpe tumescunt,
Inter nunc vitam, nuncque deflendi,
Morte silentes.
Vide, qui, Luna: tremulo ocello,
or, literary wanderings.
For the Constitutionalist.
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IDEM LATINE REDDITUM.
^isefflan,.
HUC ET ILLUC;
No. 2.
Xb # • •
Murmure ludens.
Moore's Poems.
thoughts. But God is übiquitary,
and every idle word, thought, and ac
tion, is recorded in heaven.
" Our compelled sins stand more
for number than account." When
ever there is any allowance to be made
for the infirmity of human nature,
Mercy may drop a generous tear upon
the marks, intended to perpetuate our
evil actions, and blot them out forever.
Watson's Apology for the Bible de
serves the attention of every one, who
is just learned enough to be askeptick.
It is to be feared there are many such.
Tom Paine is no more ; but etiam mor
tuus loquitur. Let the circumstances of
his death be a warning to all those, who
scoff at sacred things,and . live without
God in the world..
Without enthusiasm, love is a mere
animal sensation. Without enthusi
asm, religion cannot exist. No ora
tor, no poet ever was successful, who
could not boast some degree of it. To
the latter, it is peculiarly necessary ;
for if he has it not, he gives us but
" the melancholy madness of poetry,
without the inspiration."
Not in proportion as we love, but
as we respect ourselves, are we loved
and respected. Can we expect others
will be tender of our reputations, when
we look not upon them as sacred our
selves ?
The world conjunctly viewed, ap
pears no better than Virgil's monstrum
horrendum, cui lumen ademptum.
No human being, however perfect,
who would not seem monstrous in the
gross. His good qualities must be de
tached. / J:.
Genius and light are terms not de
finable.
Dr. Dwight, the able Preside^ofi
Yale College, when quite young,
less remarkable for his literaryd
ments, than for an ostentatiousfl
of them. —At the age of 19,
appointed Tutor, & the class which he
superintended was so gratified with the
pains and 'attention bestowed upon
them, that on his relinquishing that of
fice, they presented him with an elegant
ring with " plus meruisti" inscribed
on it.
Shortly after, happening to be in a
mixed company of young ladies and
gentlemen at Hartford, among whom
was Trumbull, the humorous author
of Me Fingall he began not with
a little self complacency, to exhibit the
ring. The ladies were admiring it,
and thronged around Trumbull to
learn what the meaning of the, motto
was—" Thou deservest more" said the
sarcastic wit——-" that is, he not only
deserves to be ring'd but he ought like
wi§e to be yok'd/?
Who ever yet had courage to be a
coward, in the estimation of the world ?
We are sometimes justifiable in im
posing upon the world; on ourselves,
never.
We cannot be ourselves at all times ;
we are sometimes prevented from it, by
the despotism of opinion.
There is more happiness in the world
than misery, more reality in the form
er, than the latter. Happiness con
sists in moderation of desire; had we
no desires, we were neither happy nor
miserable. No one envies the brute
creation.
I have known very sensible and dis
cerning men, who were yet fools, by a
sort of fatality.
We should conceal our foibles from
all but our friends. They havea right
to know them.
Show me the man, who can never
discover merit in any performance,but
his own; and I will shew you a great
genius, or a great scoundrel.
To be "a wit with dunces," is not
so easy, as the reverse.
Genius scorns monopolization.
Sis Hugh Acland, of Devonshire,
apparently died of a fever and was
laid out as dead—The nurse with two
of the footmen sat up with the corpse.
Lady Acland sent them a bottle of
brandy to drink in the night; one of
the footmen being an arch rogue, told
the other, that his master dearly loved
brandy when he was alive ; and says he,
I am resolved he shall drink one glass
with us now he is dead. The fellow
filled out a bumper of brandy, and
poured, it down Sir. Hugh's throat.
The spirit mixing with the air in the
passage,a gurgling immediately ensued,
and a violent motion of the neck and
upper part of the breast. The other
footman and the nurse were so terrifi
ed, they ran down the stairs, and the
Brandy Genius following with too
much speed, tumbled down stairs head
foremost. The noise of his fall and
their cries, alarmed a young gentleman
that slept in the house that night, who
got up and went to the room where
the corpse lay—and, to his great sur
prise found, Sir, Hugh sitting upright.
The gentleman called the servants and
put him in a Warm bed, the physician
and apothecary sent for; who in a few
weeks, had the happiness to 'restore
their patient to health, who lived sev
eral years after.
The above is well known, as a fact,
to the Devonshire people, as in most
companies Sir Hugh used to tell this
strange circumstance and talk of his
resurrection by his Brandy footman ;
to whom (when he really died) he left a
handsome annuity.
|&This account sufficiently argues the
Bition with which we, should avoid
■irrying to the grave, persons appar
ently dead.
Arithmetical Prodigy.
Zerah Colburn, a boy only 6 years
of age, born at Cabot, in Vermont, is
now exhibiting in thatStateas a phenom
en on, an account of the wonderful fa
cility with which he answers all sorts
of arithmetical questions. The boy has
only been at a woman's school a few
weeks, where reading and spelling were
taught. He cannot read without spell
ing, does not know a single figure, and
was never in a situation to hear any a.
rithmetical calculations.
At the fire at Paris sometime since,
at the Ball, Prince Kurakin had in his
hat a solitaire estimated at 400,00€
francs, which he lostrtogether with hi!
epaulets worth SOO^Orafr^cs !!
The farmer's female servants sleep
in an upper chamber, into which they
pass through an outer one; about mid
night a tapping against the wainscot of
of the outer room, is heard which pro
ceeds gradually into the chambers ; the
most horrid and supernatural noise im
mediately begin; a weight seems to press
the bed, like a chest of^rawers ; an
old sword that hangs behind the bed
is violently shook, and something is
heard to pace the room, which they
say is like the foot of a bear without
claws ; a young child which slept with
the maid was nearly suffocated with this
supernatural pressure, but nothing can
be seen.
It sometimes visits the Farmer's bed
room—one night, a brass candlestick
which was on the floor spun round
with great velocity ;'the Farmer being
alarmed attempted to ring his bell,
when the candlestick was thrown with
great violence at the bed's head, but
fortunately missed the Farmer—the
room was immediately searched, but
nothing could be discovered.
The house is built with stone, and
and there is not any space between
the wall and the wainscot to practice a
deception.
TALE OF MYSTERY.
The following curious narrative has
been authenticated to us by a corres
pondent. 1
To the Editor of the London Morn
ing Chronicle.
sir,
I beg leave to trouble you for the
consideration of your readers, with the
following very singular, authenticated
Tale of Mystery.
The inhabitants of a farm house at
Denham nearTiverton Devon,have been
lately very much disturbed andalarmed
by noises, which human reason is in
capable to'account for ; the many re
ports concerning them induced some
persons in the neighbourhood, of the
first respectability and character, to
inquire into the circumstances and as
certain thei'r truth or detect the impos
ition ; to this end they made strict in
quiries of the family under an impres
sion that 'the whole was an impos
ture —the family, however, all concur
ing in asserting the truth of the reports,
some of those gentleman have sal up
many nights in an adjoining room,
and are fully satisfied that the singu
lar noises there heard, are supernatur
al.
Your constant reader, J. D.
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