The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-09-29 00:00:00, page 4

PnAnltofo &rural.irillao,
'lf & dfrom th toilful plough'
No more's overturn'd the now deserted glebe,
more the bfy waves on eve, field ;
Nor fulreabersjafle convivial mirth:
once autgoij^jgnc.
The<wa,-lofl trav'lerfinds no generous aid.
Nor fra with joy tbe grateful face of man.
The beafis of fer, roam through the patbleh graft,
Andtee tight raven, from the mould'ring ball,
Screams fad and penfart to the midnight air.
Suchfane, as these have but too often gain'd
The boasted arms of Perjia, Greece and Rome :
At when proud Xerxes pour'd his millions forth,
Tdfpreaddeftr,aion&U^^ Greece ;
Or when the Macedonian here led,
Acfojs the Htllefp^bis barb'rous bof,
'And drench'd with blood the Asiatic plains :
Or when the far-fam'd Scipiooverthrew
The illufrious Hannibal on Afric'sfands,
When be, by means ungenerous, and unjust,
Triumph'd o'er the already conquer'd foe,
And ra^'dill fated Carthage to the ground:
Or when the fame oppreffirs , the world
Extended far and wide their proud domain ; ~ T
by fraud, or force, bound nations in their chains,
Made hinge to tremble on their tattering thrones.
Or meanly bow 'math their imperiousjway._
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— MONITOR.
FOR THE_MIRR OUR. ,
For if „ forgive men their trejpffa,,our beav
* enly Father will also forgive you.
But if „ forgive not men their trefpafis, neither
will, our Father forgive your trefpasses.
XTOTHING should be read with so much
devoutness and reverential awe, as the
Sacred Volume—lt contains the great truths
of Divinity — It points the road to eternal fe
licity—And, if read with a right temper and
spirit, nothing can be read to greater advan
• tage—Our text breathes an excellent moni
tion, drefs'd in all the beauties of charity,
,applicable to every son and daughter of man.
—How common is it among men, to find a
° spirit working within them, which is contra
ry to the above—Most men, nay, every one,
is ready to find a palliative excuse for his own
faults—but his neighbor's are too apt to be
viewed with magnifying eyes h —Audit is quite
faftiionable for man to "fay unto h^bfother,
** Let me pull out the moteout of thine eye,"
when, alas ! his own eyes are blinded by
BEAMS—How contrary Is this to the spirit
of forgivenefs !— How common is it for men
to be wroth one with another, to persecute
one another, and cherish in their bosoms the
spirit of uncharitableness and unforgivenefs !
—But I fay unto you all med, Love one anoth
er —and. Forgive one another— For, if ye for
give one 'another, your heavenly Father will
forgive you-—and— No. man is without Sin—
There is none good save ONE — l —But if ye for
give not one another, ye (hall not be forgiv
en—Thefe are assurances of the Holy Book,
and the fofpirations of Divinity itfelf.—
And indeed, who (hall be charitable to him
who is without charity ?—How shall any one
dare to lift up his hands and voice, and pray
his heavenly Father to forgive his trespasses,
when, 10, if he but turn his eje on the right
and on the left, he may behold thofe^f his
"fellow men, whose trefpaffes,himfelf ^il not
; forgive ?—To such, I earnestly recommend
' the ftudx of our text.- -— —M man canferve
[faithfully] two masters —" Take heed that
ye do not your alms before men; to be feeh of
them; ye have no reward of your Father
which i$ in heaven,? ^MATTHEW
. , -—-= , . — -7
jPort^^
SHE is generally graceful in her fig
^ure, (low in her gait, mild imhfr lodes,
proud in her mein, engaging in her
/ conversion, dedicate in her expref
fion,quick albluWg,chafein tho't,
innocent in manners, improving on
acquaintance, generous to Haute, rea
dy to weep with one in diftreb, folic-,
& Itous for the poor, sincerely religious,
eminently humne, con, nt to her
attachment /faithful to her en^ace
!
-'Tnetn&gfcs~M^'^
I for h^oinefs : For nothing can be
more pFepofter^ than to place the
good of a reasonable creature in on
reasonable things. If I h? & e loft any
thing, it was adventitious ; and the
left money, the less trouble ; the left
favor, the less envy : Nay, even in
those cases that put us out of our wits,
it ii not the loss itfelf, but the opinion
of the loss that troubles us. it ba
common mistake to account those
things n6ceffarythat are'fo perfluous,
and to depend upon fortune for the
felicity of life, which arises only from
virtue. There is no trusting to her
fortes : The sea fwelis and rages in a
moment, and the ships are (wallowed
up at night, in the very place where
they (ported themselves in the morn
-ing. And fortune has the fame pow
er over princes, that it h^i over em
pires ; qver nations, that it has over
cities; and the fame power over cit
ies, that it has over private mem..
Where is (he estate that may not be
followed upon the heel with famine
and beggary ? Or that dignity which
the next moment may not be kid in
the duf i ? Or that kingdom that iffe
cure from desolation and ruin ? The
period of all things is at hao^, at well
that which casts out the fortunate, as
the other that delivers §he unhappy ;
and that which may fall out at any
time, may fall out this very day.—
What fall come to pass 1 know not,
but what 0, come to pass I know :
so that I will despair of nothing, but
expeft every thing ;, and whatsoever
Providence remits, is clear gain.——
Every moment, if it (pares me, de
ceives me: And yet in some fort it
does not deceive me ; for though I
know that any thing may happen ;
yet I know lifewife, that every thing
will not. I will hope the best, and
provide for the worst. Methinks we
Should not find so much -fault whh
Fortune for her inconstancy, when we
ourselves fuffer a change every mo
ment that we live • ,only other chan
ges make more noise, and this (teals
upon us like the sh adow of a dial;
every jot as certainty, but more in
sensibly.
The burning of Lycni may serve
to (how us, that we are never fafe ;
and to arm us again ft all fhrprizea.—
The terror of it must needs be great,
for the calamity i. almoff without ex
ample If it had been fired by an en
emy, the flame would have left some
farther mifehief to have been done by
the soldiers : But to be wholly con
sumed, we have not heard of many
earthquakes so pernicious : So many
rarities to be destroyed in one night,
and in the depth of peace to fuffer an
outrage beyond the extremity of war r
Who would believe it ? But twelve
hours betwixt so fair a city and none
at all ; it was laid in afhei in left time
than it would require to tell the sto
ry. To Band unshaken in such a ca
kmity is hardly to be expeded § a^^
our wonder cannot but be equal to
our grief. Let this accident teach us
to provide agaioft all ppffibilities, that
fall within the power of fortune ; all
external things are under her domin
ion : One while the calls her hands to
her assistance ; another while foe con
tents herfelf with her own force, and
destroys us with mischiefs of which
we cannot find the author.^ No time,
place, or condition b exempted ; the
makes our v.ry pleasures painful to
it; foe makes war upon , in the
I denth of neace and turns the means
1 of our a into an occahon ot
I fear ; lie turpij fnenQ into an ete
I aettrocuon. Lieu we mould eitner
forget, or negleft her power, every
day produces something extraordina
ry. She perfecmes the most tempe
rate with sickness, the strongest con
ftitufions with the phthific; (he brings
the innocent to puni foment, and the
most retired the assaults. with tumults.
Those glories that have grown up
with many ages, with in finite.labour
arid experife, and under the favor of
many auspicious providences, one day
(catters, and brings to nothing. /He
that pronounced a day, nay an hour
fuffijeot for the delhudion of the
greatest empire, might have fallen to
a moment. It weie some comfort yet
to the frailty of mankind, and of hu
man affairs, if things might but de
cay as slowly as thev rife ; but they
grow by degrees, and they fall to ru
in in an instant. [To be conlimued.fr,
—=±*^tej^ HOI —
EXTRACTED FOR THE MIRROUR.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
' or ^^^
Remarkable Events, Inventions,
. AND*
The TEra, Country, and Writings of learned
Men..
The whole comprehending, in one view, the
analysis, or outlines, of Univerfil Hiftory,
from the Creation. (Continued.)
BEFORE CHRIST.
3''K™° Aridtus and his wife #
Ax murdered by Olympian, A
lexander's mother, who is loon after
put to death by Calender. All the
wives, children, brethren, and even
lifters, of Alexander himtelf, are put
to death by one or ocher, and not a
relation of hk left alive.,
313 Ptolemy, one of his generals,
founds a new empire in Egfa.
312 The water hour glaffcs invent
ed by Scipio N^fica.
300 The kingdom of Pentus is
formed out of tha, of Alexander ; an
academy is founded at Alexandria, the
famous library furcifhed with books ;
and anatomy is, for the fiift time,
publicly taught.
291 Painting toft introduced at
Rome by Q. Fabius, thence surnamed
Fiftor.^
285 Dyonifius of Alexandria began
his agronomical refa,on Monday June
26; being the firft who found the
exad foiar year to confid of 365 days
5 hours 49 minutes.
284 Pharos, the celebrated light
house at Alexandria, ereded by Pfo|-
emy.—Ptolemy Philadeiphus, king
of Egypt, employs (event, two inter
preters, to translate the Old Tete
ment into the Greek language; which
is called the Septuagiul.
276 The 6rft Society of gramari
ans, or critics.
269 The faft coining of silver at
Rome.
264 The firft Punic war begins
grid continues ,3 years. The chron
ology of the Arundelian marble#
composed.
'260 The Romans lift concern
themselves in naval affairs, and defeat
the Carthagenians at sea.
250 The Parthian empire founded
by Arbaces.c
237 Hamilcar, the Carthagenian,,
causes his son Hannibal, at nine years
old, to (wear eternal enmity to the
Romans. .
218 The fecood Punic war begin?,
and continues, 17 years. Hannibal
paffei the Alps, and d@feate the Ro
mans in several battles ; but being
denied proper fopport, by an info
mous f^ion at home, he was ft.
ed unable to ffl^, ffogh
enteen yearlyft
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