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Original Poetry.
For the Constitutionalist.
UTILE PULCI. !~
Miscere nunquam non volens, vae! utile
dulci,
Uxorem petii. Precibus favit meis.
Uxor est; jucunda et idonea, nulla simul
sunt;
Nam neque utilis, pec dulcibus premere scit.
F.
gO" A translation of the above is requested.
Res ipsa indicat.
Nupta,viros lustrare oculis, non curat Elisa;
Lustrandi causam, ipsaque indicat res.
A plain case.
At men, since marriage, Bess will gaze no
more;
'Tig obvious then for what she gaz'd before.
THE wanderer.
WHEN I, from morn till set of sun,
Have seen the rapid Sicot run,
With force collected, like my own,
To burst through nature's bars of stone;
While on its current plunging past,
Alternate light and shade were cast,
Illumin'd now by rays divine,
Now darken'd by the mountain pinb,
And looking back, at every turn,
As loth to quit its native urn ;
Oh ! it has made me sad to feel
How like that stream's unbridled zeal,
My lot to pass, and view no more,
The sprightly scenes I lov'd before.
Oh! these tir'd feet, since life begun,
Full many a round of care have run,
And still must journey on with pain,
In haste to meet a boundless main,
And step, at once, into the sea
Os fathomless eternity.
It is a melancholy truth in all ages
of the world, that
'' he, who wanders with a poet's name,
Must live on friendship, while he starves on
fame!"
Poesy, in the Ruling Passion, by
R. T. Paine, jun. Esq. author of the
above lines, and who, as he has written
so well, can never be pardoned, un
less he writes more, is, by a very bold
and beautiful figure, represented as
• ''Boundto the moulderingcorpseofPenury."
objecting against head-knowledge, as
he is pleased to te^m it. True it is
that moral heroism is rarely produced
by human learning; but do not the
writings of Paul himself, that great
champion of religion, sufficiently evince
that it is not inconsistent with it ?
Some of us make a great noise in
the world, merely to hear the echo.
We must become fools in our own
estimation, before we are wise men in
that of the worlds
Who, for the sake of a long life,
would forego every inducement to
live ?
Balnea, vina, Venus eorrumpunt corpora
nostra;
At faciunt vitam balnea, vina, Venus!
. Gratitude is but a name with us
so we love our Father in Heaven.
When bashfulness springs fror
other cause than delicate sense of im
perfection, it should take the name e
eheepshM,
Literary characters, even when pos
sessed of something more than the com
forts of life, are frequently the most
unhappy. Habituated to a State of
intense thinking, they are apt to lose
sight of many little things that regard
sensible objects, but upon which hap
piness, in a great measure, evidently
depends.^
We may often say of the human
heart, what Cowper says concerning
the Empress of Russia's ice-mountain ;
—Treacherous and false; it smil'd and it
'was cold.
dede
HUG ET ILLUC;
OR, LITERARY WANDERINGS.
The unlettered Christian is wrong in
For the Constitutionalist.
gwmllanp.
No. %
HOEL.
,Truth is the dividing line between
heaven and hell. Travel over it, and
you travel towards the gates of sin and
death. ....
' Let that man surrender his integrity,
who wishes to be repulsed to a return
less distance from his Creator. Con
science, swung from the moorings of
truth, like the boat of the fabled Styx,
wafts one to an exile that is to be
eternal. -
•• • •
A dying tnan does not fear death,
but the chasm which death opens be
tween this and a future life.
Ambition, though a disease itself,
frequently roots out others mote dan
gerous and more incurable.
• •••
Emulation is a true hermaphrodite ;
possessing so many opposite qualities,
that we can neither call it a virtue nor
a vice.
What is but sport to one, may be
torture to another. Sensibility must
not be trifled with.
Jamais homme ne fut poete, ou aima
la lecture des poetes, qui n'eutla caeur
assis on bon lieu, says Scaliger. What
shall the mathematician, or the meta
physician answer to this ? Sileant victi.
Generosity is so repugnant to cbld
calculation, that it too often terminates
in downright prodigality.
Charity is often poor and rich ; often
er rich and contemptible. We do not
so much regard the gift, as the manner,
in which it is given.
We might have reason, and Still there
be no necessity for language. Social
affection in its joint promoter.
" The vista that shines through the
eye to the heart" —is a beautiful con
ception.
Our resolutions find us and leave us
like confirmed valetudinarians, who
frequently so far recover as to get upon
crutches, and then suffer a relapse, ten
titnes mortesevere than ever.
Cowper and Goldsmith are the only
poetical writers in the English language
whom I would hold up for equal im
itation and admiration. They are the
secretaries of nature. I would rather
be the author of the Task, than have
it in my power to wield a sceptre.—
Goldsmith's Traveller will travel down
to the latest posterity, and his Desert
ed Tillage will never be deserted. I
would wish that Cowper's Tirocinium
were more read, and more understood.
Perhaps it is not generally known
that Milton's Paradise Lost has been
rendered into Latin. But there is real
ly in existence such a thing as Pttra
disus Amissus, executed by a scholar
of the name of Dobson. Dr. Beattie
says, " it is more true to the original,
both in sense and spirit, than any poet
ical version of the length, I have ever
seen."
It is to be regretted that the follow
ing extract, written by an enlightened
foreigner, should possess more truth
than illiberality.
“ The college of William and Mary,
the only one in the state of Virginia,
and the first which I saw in America,
gave me but a melancholy idea of re
publican seats of learning. That con
tempt for the elegancies of education
which the American democrats affect,
is nowherd more grosly conspicuous
than in Virginia. The young men,
who look to advancement, study rath
er to be demagogues than politicians ;
and as every thing that distinguishes
from the multitude is supposed to be
invidious and unpopular, the levelling
system is applied to education, and has
had all the effect its partizans could
desire, by producing a most extensive
equality of ignorance. The abbe
Raynal, in his prophetic admonitions
to the Americans, directing their at
tention very strongly to learned estab
listiments, sayg, < When the youth of
a country are seen depraved, the na
tion is on the decline.' I know not
what the abbe Raynal would pro
nounce of this nation now, were he a
live to know the morals of the young
students at Williamsburg. But, when
he Wrote, his countrymen had not yet
introduced the ' doctrinam deos sper
nentem' into America."
In the year 1792, the women of
Toulon declared themselves io a state
of Insurrection, and assembling in
great crowds threatened to hang the
Magistrates, if they did not lower the
price of Sugar. The procurator Syn
dic, at first laughed at their threats;
but the multitude refusing to disperse,
he assembled the Council General of
the Commune, and ordered the fire en
gines, with a plentiful supply of water,
mixed with soot, to be drawn out in
battle array; by a vigorous discharge
of this smutty artillery, the insurgents
in petticoats were completely routed,
and quietly retired to their homes.
On Saturday, Charles Breece,late
a city constable, was examined add
committed to jail, on a charge of Mur
der, committed in August 1792, on
Miss Elizabeth Reeves, a manlua
maker, aged 17 years. His commit
ment was on the confession of Breece's
step-mother now at the point of death
who swore, that on the night Miss
Reeves was murdered, the accused
came home covered with blood, took
off his shirt and washed it ; —that for
some time after he was restless in his
sleep and would make frighful exclam
ations; and soon after the murder she
the stepmother, hearing him'groan,
went into his room and was told by him
that a young woman had just been in
the room with a lighted candle in her
hand, but that he had turned his back
on her as soon as he saw her. These,
and other circumstances, induced her
to stispect Breece of the murder, and
she could not die in peace without di
vulging them. Breece asserts his inno
cence ; but has given contradictory
statements of where he was at the time
of the murder. The Woman also ac
cuses another person, who is absent,
as being accessary to the murder, and
we understand, that a stock-buckle,
which was found in the hand of the
corpse, is marked with the initials of
this man's name. At the time of the
murder a very minute description of
all the horrid circumstances attending
it were published in the papers, and
Gov. Mifflin issued his proclamation
offering a reward of 300 dollars for
the discovery of the murderers, with
out any effect. But after 18 years
secrecy, a clue is now found, it is ex
pected, to trace it.
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inz Cider into Wine.
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A method of suppressing a Mob
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POME WINE.
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