The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1797-10-10 00:00:00, page 4

From the Farmer's Weekly Museum.
COMMON SENSED Difabilk.
FAMILY GOVERNMENT.,
TN fpiee of modern whims about
1 liberty and equality, the gov
ernment of a family mutt be abso
lute ; mild, not tyrannical. The
hwi of nature and the voice of
reason have declared the depend
eoce of the child on the parent,;
The weakness of youth touft be
controlled by the hapu of age and
experience^ Parental cenderoefi to
.too apt to degenerate to parental
weakneh: " I'you p'eafe, child,"
o^, " will you derr, are soon an
swered with a surly 'no, I*Vot !'
The reigns of government Ihould
be always gently drawn ; not
twitched like a curb bridle at one
time, and dangling loosely ar an
other. Uniformity in parents pro
duces uniformity in children.-—
Whip at one minute, and carefi
the next )or let the culprit go ua
punifhed for the fame crime, and
to-morrow it will fh^ke iti fift be
hind your back-fin a few moothi I
it will be in your face. Confider
before you threaten ; then be 11
good 21 yeur word. " tyOfflip
you, if yoJ don't mind me," fays
the parent in a pefre" A a'n't a
fraid of it, fays the Child the
patent enraged flies towards it
^i(h the air# ofa cannibal rather
than a repfoteri the child preterit
flight to broken bbnei.—" You
may go now ; but you ^all bite
ycur p^y with intreft next time
you do fo,"—" I do^'c believe
that," think? the child. Ite expe
rience gives the parent the 4ifi_ ;
" Spare the rod and spoil the
child;" fiy, one, tyhpfaffit
from, being an ^dfe^^ But
fiy you, whips and rods were the
scourges of the dark Iges ; the
;preterit ,gfi enlightened,
their, law iireafoo, their authorty is
mildneft. BeWate ofthac reason,
which m&ei your child dogmata
icil,, and that mildteft; i^hich
makes him obftinate,---#There
are other rods btfidei those;
of birch; there isAbe rod of fe!
trferoofi "Arguments addressed to
the heart are more powerful than
Jth&fe applied to the back?— Let I
thrife be property administered im
case of di(obedience rtf inefife6tu
al, try the harsher method. Nev
er begin to correa till your anger
has subsided. CefoOT till you
have fubdutd the will of the of
;^; fender; if you do, your authority
is at an end. Let your commitU
b , reafft Never deli,
them in a pfr „ ibo' they
were already dJobeyed $ nor with,
&^3 timid diftruftful tone, as if you
^ sassed your own wchority.
Remember that loud fco!diog is
>diredly the reverse of wergty rer
fonihg. It i, the dying groan, of
good government, never
^ heard under yourroof, u^efs
1
nursery of fadion, which may at
% ''' hnAnh, a Art eh ♦Am hrirnntt ana Crnatt 1
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
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:< TO RAISETHRGENIUS, AND TO 14EKD I'H3 H2AIIT.''W ;--
as well as charity, begipsat home.
Let the voice of concord be heard
in your family, it will charm
:your dom< flics to a fore of order.
Your grand children will never be
pointed at as the offspring of a
termigin: jacobin ; and you will
merit more praise of your country
than many who spout in Congress.
for THE MIRROR.
4 faaSTHE FRIEND.
TRE PREJUDICE OF CREDULITY, &
4 SPIRIT OP CONTRADICTION
CONTRASTED.
THE credulous min is ready
to receive every thing for
truth, that has but the shadow of
evidence $ every new book that
he reads, and every ingenious man
with whom he converter, has pow
er enough to draw him into the
sentiments of the (peaker or writer.
He ho so much complaisance in
him, or wetkneb of foul, that he
is ready to resign his own opinion
TO the fifft objeaion which he
hears, and to, receive any fenri
ments of another that are asserted
with a pofiiive air and much if
furance. Thus he is under a kind
of necessity, thro' the indulgence
of this creduloui humor,either to
be often changing hit opinions, or
to believe incon fitter,ciei.
# The man of contradiction is of
a very contrary burner? for he
Bands ready tooppofe every thing
that is (aid : he gives but a flight
attention to the reafofti of other
men, from an inward fcbrofal pre
emption that they have noftrength
fythem. When he reads or hears
a difeourfe different from his own
fentimenti, be does not give him
feff leave to co^fi ?er, whether that
difeourfe may be true ; but em
ploys all his powers immediately
to confute it. Your great disput
ers, and your men of cohtroverfy,
are in continual (linger of this fort
of prejudice ; they contend often
for victory, and will maintain what
soever they have asserted, while
truth is loft io the Wfeanq tumult
^af teciptoffl contradictions ; and
'iefhqoeatly happens, that a de
b:tefomt opinions & turned into
a mutual reproach of persons.
7^ Projpeels of a Country
Pb,Jician.
[Z>M "TT# Algerine Captive ;
or, & Life Q^ /IfoOTuru jj D^or
lUpdikeI Updike Underhill."
TN the autumn.of iff,. I retained to
X my parents, who received me wirht
rapture. My father had reared, for me;
a likely pte-bald mare. Our fiddler e
quipped roe with hot fe famture,not for<
getting the little laddie bags, which I
richly replemfhed with drugs, purchafad
at Boston. With a few bocks, and my
Jurgeon't inftrumen'rfin m, r portman
teau, and a few &CT in my pecket, 1
fat out, with a tight near', to fe<kprac
^^ ^fortune,,# £fr,
ft My primary &fr rss Qi 4
place of fettlemffl, Thfcl imagmedau
t 'hQ%
te^3^^
ined, by the loss of a valuable fire ; the
third quarrelled with the midwife, and
was obliged to remove ; the fourth hgy.
i n g prescribed, tether unluckily for a
young woman cf hit acquaintance,
grievcifly Lifted with a tympany,
went to the Ohio ; and the lift, being
a prudept man, who fi)ld his bc<?ks % Rnd :
inftrumerits for wild land, and raised his
own crop of medicine, was aaually in
the way of making a great fortune; as,
in only ten years' py2ai€% he left at his;
b decease, an estate, both real and person
al, which was apprifedat one hundred
pounds, lawful mopy., This account
was not likely to engage the ,ttepfc,n of
a young man, upon whole education
twice the sum had been expended. $
In the next town, I wasaffuied I might
do well,sa physician, if I would keep a
grogshop, or let m} felf, as a laborer, in
the bay season, and keep a school in the
.winter. The fitft part of this propefi
tion, I heard with patience; but, at the
bare mention of,afchopl, I. fk # d§he town
^abruptly. In the neighboring town, they
,did not w?nt a physician, as an expert
enced itinerant dohr vifittd the place,
every M^rch, when the people had molt
leisure to be sick and take physic.„ He;
pradifed wi;h grefl success, especially in
flow confomptions, charged very low,
and took his pay in any thing and every
thing. Betides; he carried a mould with:
him, to run pewter fpoons,.and was e
qually good ; at mending a kettle and
a constitution.
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' — THE RIVULET.
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^! FORTHB MIRROR.
Messrs. Printers,
The Poems of Ossian, and the other
bards of Cefedonlt, notwitfiftanding,
' irate uncultivated fera, have Been just-?
ly admired for the neatness of their
^ira fl heir elegance of feenery, and #
certain unaffected sublimity fupericr
to art. M'Pherson's tr^firffon cf
Ossian has been of great service, fa■
collecting the works of that;author,
(which before were but feattercd frag
ments) into a regular jyrtem ;but al-i
though written with the greatest ele-'
gance, yet want tire beauties of verfi-.
/fiction, so effentkl to poetry, and so
necefiry to give due forceto the most
sublime conceits. Partial translation^
of these poems, havty accordingly,
^en often attempted in verse, with
various success ; but among those who
have acquired celebrity, perhaps Mr,
Herrick deserve, the foremeft placeg
As bis works are little known in thiff
country, the enclosed extrad will^po;
doubt, be acceptable to alt readers or
true t^fte and sentiment. ‘'
w "V'rJ.'topi:
CONNat AMD CRIMORA'
An Elegy, translated from the Erse;
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CrimOr&, r .
TT7HO, vabo is I , j& fats th bill
Im <@MftrffulgW at tbt ra^^
Or as amfern dead i,&@
w^,p„¥#%"':
Loud as thtboUQ Me,, bo voice 1 bear !
Sluefl as th vomof Carryltb&to!
Itm my to,mta?d fob Jbraingfail;
flu j%<wbat blijs tefrblt, Ifall
Sbert liv'd, I fear ; for fort fades bis
Say, Cental, lives great FfyAbard, race ?
Wb, tbetokQ? n & fb, ^niffit:
4b ! tbg sod, tear m, trebled beart !
far ^^ to}& b.^.^ ./
mra, .
S^jad event, mp levs, the nmes fortend .•
^tQu tb%smcla^W^
To rorrm, D&rgo remts to tr, onr foci ;
D.rc mil Ihi mjha be, foridlbe uarrfrg
? ' '<62„. ,^,:
E^orrto bhrgotraH, rgmz'd for mify,
&tulh tin rail <fFirgal to tb&jigbt ;
The fas of tour's CAS 6-jtth beetfs,
Andcl, foing erwfait tbunder tbro' the far.
Crimora.
*f9 # ^' tbuPx in audOTnal ai^
On tbebgrorofl, Ifara; bis^h oft^^r ;
Ijaw bit vtfh anchor near the Jband,,^
A«i fan the might, Dargo cam to land; >
tFub all biswarfib trains nt mtr^to foid J
/. CCNNAL. Z. -a
The, fall recent, thty fail'd this <u & aru&
fofa:;.\
Bti^g me the jbiJd the frldifr Rhdaf&fo,
Tb, father's bmhr. —lbus wgb/mdh^bt
Tbi moon,full erb'd, gleams tbro'&«wtn&j
-Crimora. # >
Tbisfl'd, 0 Cental; to thhe &m fbirfd;
Yi Ob ! reinin ala Rirval's fatein mint:
Far no defence, in ibis m, farmer found,
Bat bit, in agonies +f deaththe ,currt.
Here pierc'd firn Gaiiror'sj,te=tteQar
rierfill!
4 And lube,fy Cetol, who tb, fate can tell?
CoNNAL.
Fes —I me,fill, infred, if tu<b in, fee;
Remember, git', frrHifd Ccxnardfdti.
Raije thou mj tomb—fcjbdll m, fame farcify;
Kpt, by the gertl eband of Ivui, abve.
Ameundof eurib, or rifle pile )/ fl^er, :
May mark tbe grave ibat cm/i Cokwre
1 bones. '^^
[TW tbou, Camera,to m, dea&gfigbt,
Art dear tr far than to the blind is light ;
Tbe' far kftpleafnre, nefofts tbefummer gah,
Tobim wbo toils inrefot at the fad ;
TW&parch'd pilgrim in the cmftalbfo§k.
Left pbajure finds than 1 inline dear look;
rd Iraill go—n, eonritry calls to terns ;=
' Hid fahni ®oi<tmore ftrbng than beaut,'s
charms.'
Adieu, Crmora,—hence, apfal&ggker:—
^y^l foould full, Crimdrb, rai/e m, fob.^
CRitadkA.t^
Tbs martialglow I;jje^dtbflic,fod!•
Givo. ffie tbolt arms,'fbffaord, the lance sf
°?^t!^"smf I^G with Ibet, firco Darp's
po&r,'
Anddid^m, CUnra!&¥& doubtful hour.
Farewell, „ rocks of Artoen! f, no more,
Shall from yotff summit bfar the ?ctan /d'd^;
Nommjhall bear the hunter's cboerine been,
R°"feS 'ullccbo wi^b the r f n g wem.^
Farewell, „ det^, tbat on the mountain fide
•Crop tbeirram beatb, or in the fern abtae;
Ftrmillfynumerous Arjans, tbA tdown the
bill < frit
&efb'dm, fad boars, with man, a p^feA
Witore fall w return—the voice of wart
Lend calls to arms—our tombs are diflartf do !
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BANQUET of COMUS.
^:, ^^ " ^'~" .v#* ■* •- ,/?,Q rA to
YTTHEN the Conneaicut bloe kws
W "«e& f ofce ,^ Indian got tip
fy.fo, brought WQMcerfthe
^^^^^
berouft pay a fine for being dr&k-=
?^#3^:
^3^ ^^
,You be one cleverwife cQ fatre ;
you be one clever wife man, 'fqu,e;,—
then bleve me was drunk fhure nough—
I pay my fine
, A GRADUATE from American
—!' wYßyror travelling to fee the
world, on board, foall vessel, that mu
e^#, z^^
alked the graduate (who had been telling
V^^i^g ^%^
bre ken or damaged “ Excuse
Imd^^it^f tyicife
I I'tok^t AlX—rmrfr tAA *
I nave my aipioma in my poem,
I ends of aroce together '
I ends ct a rope twiner .
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