The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-02-17 00:00:00, page 4

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And Sound, even fools or madmen to obey.
Now driven toffot and now oppress'd at home.
Competed in crowds, o'er diJiant seas to roam,
From Indian climes', the plunder'd prize to bring,
To glad the strumpet or to glut the ting,
Who sworn (o please her wain capricious mind,
Was for' a new diamonds, at her call to find ;
Or thus like Nero, his proud dame addrefs'd,
Who made this modest offer (not in jefl)
'' Let but tbeje fingers o'eryour bosom stray,
And conquer'd nations at your feet fall la, !"
Columbia, bail !—immortal be thy reign ;
Without a ding we till the fertile plain ;
Without a king we trace the encircling sea,
And travel round the globe in <ach degree,
Each diJiant clime, our gallant flag reveres,
Nor ajk a monarch to Jupport the Jiars ;
Without a king the laws maintain their sway,
While honour bids each loyal heart obey,
Be ours the tafe the ambitious to refrain,
And this great lesson teach, That kings are vain,
That warring realms to certain ruin base,
That kings Jubfift on war, and wars are wajle ;
SoJhall our nation, form'd on Reasons plan,
Remain the guardian of the Rights of Man,
Avast republick, fam'd through every clime,
■Without a King, to fee the end of TIME !
On Mr. PAINE.
TO Freedom dear, and honour'd in the weft,
Still (corn each tyrant, and relieve th' oppress'd ;
And when thou foAt obey Death's awful call.
Be Common Sense thy legacy /o all ;
14nd fully to complete th, glorious plan,
Thence lead them higher to the Rights of Man.
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MISCELLANY.
From the Columbian Informer, ^c.
THE DERVIC E.
,“FORTY TEARS AGO TO DAY."
Aunt Kate, is most remarkable
for her long memory. In one fide of
a ready mouth (he held a short pipe,
which difeharged an unbroken stream
of smoke, at ,he other fide of the
fame mouth, came forth the follow
ing stream of words —" Forty
years ago to day, Parson Oldftuff ms
ordained; And he was a charming
man & the whole town worshipped
hify I had like to have said—no,
they thought they could fafely troft
their fouls with him, and for my part,
though I was but a girl, I never lov
ed to be under any minifies so in my
life, 'Forty years ago to day, there
was a great rejoicing. Oldftuff was
every thing then ; 0! what tearing
farmons he did preach. 1 have seen
fifty men and women all drowned io
tears at once, when he told them that
the Lord only meant to fave,.here and
there one, and that all the rest must
be forever tormented, because no
Saviour was provided for them. And
I can't fee ior my life but that he
preaches now just as he did then.
About ten years ago I was there to
fee Madam one alterriooD,. and they
were making farmons, arid 1 watched
them, for 1 never saw any body make
farmons before. The Parfoh he fol
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The Pierides.
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Lines occafibned by reading Mr. Paine's
RIGHTS opMAN.
THUS briefly fetch'd the fared Rights of
Man,.
How inednffent with the regal plan,
Which for itjelj exclufve honour craves,
Where fame are masters bhrn, and fotne are saves,
With what contempt must every eye look down,
On that baje childish bauble, call'd a crown ;
Yet;fource of half the mifchief men endure,
'% qaatk that kills them, while it deems to cure.
Rous'd by the reafonof bis manly page,
Once more fall PAINE a listening world engage;
From reason's Source, a bold reform be brings.
By railing up mankind be pulls down kings,
Who, jource of discord, patrons of all wrong,
On blood and murder, have been fed top long :
Hid from the world, and tutor'd to be base,
The curse, thefcourge, the ruin of our race —
Their's was the taf, a dull designing crew,
'To govern beings that they Jcarcel, knew,
Who deem'd this world a settlement of saves,
And form'd their sway on fyflems built by knaves :
Advance, bright years, to work their final fail.
And base the period, that Jball crujb them all.
Who that has read and Jean'dthe Heroic Page,
But glows at every line with kindling rage,
To fee by them, the Rights of Men aspers'd,
Freedom refrain'd and Nature's law revers'd ;
Men, rank'd with beasts, by them bequeath'd
AJOtwithftanding all we meet with
1-N in books, in many of which, no
doubt, there are a good many hand
some things said upon the sweets pf
retirement, &c. •••yet still 66 it is
" not good for man to bs alone, nor
can all which the cold hearted pedant
Runs our ears with upon the fubjeft,
ever give one anfwet of fatisfadioa to
the mind ; in the midst of the loudest
vaultings of philosophy. Nature
will have her yearnings for society and
friend (hip ;—a good heart wants some
object to be kind co—and the best
parts of our blood, and the purett of
our spirits, fuffer most under the def
ritution.
Let the tropid Monk seek heaven
comfortlefs and alone God speed
him! For my own part, I fear I
fhou!d never so find the way : let me
be wife and religious. but let me
be Man ; wherever thy Providence
places me, or whatever be the road
I take to get to thee—give me some
companion in my journey, be it only
to remark to, How our Shadows
lengthen as the fun goes down ; —to
whom I may fay, How fre(h is the
face of Nature ! How sweet the flow
ers of the field ! How delicious are
these fruits!
Sterne's Sermons.
SPEECH
Pronounced b, the Count De la Charte, on ron
jecrating the Colours of the Legion of Royal Em
igrants at Offend.
" Gentlemen,
" nr HERE no longer remaning,
1 in our sanguined Country,
this white Flag-^this ancient Banner,
which was so long your guide in the
career of honour. It hasdifappeared
to adorn the funeral (if I may be al
lowed the expression) of the most un
fortunate and most virtuous of our
Kings! Alas ! Gentlemen, we fight
no more for him ; in vain have We
deferred the lands of our fathers ; in
vain have * our magnanimous Princes
rallied us in, a foreign land and put
thex&ta^ at our head, |oeffeft his
delivtraricet Their courage and their
zeal hareten retrained, : , O Provi
dence! we refped thy decrees ! The
just has difappearedfrom the face of
the earth, and the greatest of crimes
have been committed.
" Barbarous and impious Repre
1
by a bit of an old table, writing,Mad
am fotat his right hand reading the
very best book that ever 1 heard ; it
was about inability and unregenerate
doings, and bow men keep trying to
get to heaven, and only make them
(elves worse than devils. Miss Kate,
my namesake, the oldest daughter,
sot at his left hand, and when her
mother had read enough of that good
book, then her father (poke and cold
her to read scripture enough to prove
it ; and so (he read a while, and then
her mother read a while, till the Par
son had made the best farmon I ev
er heard in my life. I got to meet
ing next sabbath, and fixed myfelf
to be roused ; and when it come, O
how (mart! every body hid it was
the deepest farmon they ever heard,
and many supposed there was no bot
tom to it. Forty years ago to day."
My aunt Kate is called a pretty
sensible woman ; before parson Old
ftuff loft so many of his sheep, (he
was allowed to be the best judge of
preaching in the town, and knew
aimoft every thing about ministers.
She seems to be a little dull of appre
hending the difference between C and
H, as we may fay there is a differ
ence between Edward and Edwards ;
the sis extreme. But, my aunt
Kate.
SOC IET Y.
The Monitor.
THERE isa fort of People that
love to look on the knotty fide
of the Arras ; and take little Notice
of theexcellent Figure that is wrought
upon the right fide of the Hangings :
If the, fee many Perfedions in a
Man, and spy but one Failing in him,
that must eclipse the Glory of all the
other;
Übi multa nitent, non ego paucis offender maculis.
Where there are man, things that appear
brilliant and Joining in a character, I am not 4
offended at a few trifling foibles. . r;
I have so many Failings,n m,fel£
that I never censure any Man ; if 1
do, I censure myfetf most : I love
not to reprehend that in another
which I find in my own Breast ; I
affed not to play the Epicure, and
,nveigh against Luxury ; or be per
fidious my felf, and expect Fidelity
+ from my Neighbour.
A Wife Man which Values himfelf
upon the Score of Virtue, and not of
Opinon, thinks himfelf neither better
or worse for the Opinion of others.
1 have often admired how it fhoold
come to pass, that any Man lov
ing himfelf best, should more regard
other Mens Opinions concerning him
felf than his own.
When one told Peliftarebus that a
notorious Railer spake well of him ;
I'll la, m, Life (said he) fomebod,
hath told him that lam dead, for be
can, [peak well of no man living.
He that thinks himfelf injured, let
him argue thus with himfelf ; Ei
ther he hath deserved this, or he hath
not, it's a Judgment ; if he hath sot,
it's an Injustice. When you discov
er any Faults 'in others, make the
right use of them, which is to correft
and amend the like Failures in your
felf; therefore when you observe
,any Mifea rriages in others forget not
to put this tyeftion to your felf,
Am not I such another ?
Moses an Abbot and a Religious
Person, was heretofore called to give
Sentence against a Person that had
offended ; he came but withal, brot'
a Bag full of Sand upon his Should
ers ; being asked what he meant by
that ; The, are (said he) m, Sins and
Errors watch I can neither fafficientl,
know, and am (carce able to bear : How
then, fall, Ijudge of another.
We live upon the Credit and Re
ports of others; Truth feldotn comes
pure to us when it comes from far ;
for then it takes some lidawebf r <@
Paffiom it meets with by the way •,
it pleafet or displeases according to
the Colours that Passion or Interest
igiran. ^^
Tentative^ of an unhappy and abufed'
Nation, tremble before our new col
ours! tremble before this flag, .given
;by a powerful and generous Kihgta
faithful fubjeds! Emigrants of eve
ry class, who.have abandoned a land
of proscription, re-enter it under das
powerful banner ;, but re-enter it nc
;cording to God, to vanquish and to
pardon ! Let the Women and old
Men find an asylum under its protest
ing Shadow ! Let the Infants em
brace it with their innocent hands ! &
let it be every where the signal of
vidory and of pardon!
" May we loon be able, Gentle
men, to carry it to the foot of that
dreadful tower, in which the infant
King, the Offspring of Henry the
Fourth, and of St. Louis, languishes !
May we be able, at the price of cur
blood, to deliver him and hit august
and unhappy family ; and associate
ourselves to the labours and glory of
those invincible Armies, which are a
bout to re-establish, on the Throne,
of Lilies, the heir of so many Kings,
and the grandson of the immortal
Maria Theresa !"
Os Censure and Detraction.
Men ufoaHy frame boVh' Opinions
and Cebfoces a wording to (he Mould
o'evil int&em^fves :' They are not
most guihythbl are mofi btimed :
thole who 'fc^k again# Macbavil
praaife Mni*s<>#.
Fbfytbat of e^eryfig advantage fake, :.''
Find ^'th^j^^s^ % room v" /A
The' fitft report makes no impres
sion upon me ; for Fa (hood rn.r.y
: times marches in the Front,and Truth
follows ifyfeßear. I always keep
a Door open for a fecund or third
Information ; so do othe wife, it may
be pernicious and give ^ylmstf'to
the Artifice of M^i^ ; ^ il,di'fpcf
ed Perfoos hasten to give the tac
ture to Oeduliiv.
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And for SALE it the Mia rourOffice,
COMPEND
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MILITARY DISCIPLINE
: FOR THE 4
TROOI^Sof NEWHdMPSAIRE.
'selected, '
Chiefly frorri the Regulations of Baron ST e ü
ben,and Mujof General SuL^|Van, ,
To which is added——-An ACT for regulat
i^dje Mjlitia d this State.
The whole art,cdto the frefent Militia Eflab
hfhinert tbkou? bout'sbe Utoit&i^ato.
^ note. The Honourable GepfrA Court
will,it is expected, pal's an Act, ALtheir pre
lent feliion, in alteration and amendment of
their former Militia AfteAs ve, : maferial
; alterations will take place, the Printer has,
by advice,omitted the AQ,palled in 1792 —
and waits the receipt,of the new a&— which
shall be immediately printed, and presented
to those who poruhafe this Cofoftnd before
it is added: ~ 1# ^'^ ^^
%* Tbkabove Book may be bad at the fol
lowing plac'd,Mr. -Harris's, Maj. Duncan's &
Mfrs. Manley & Partridge's fores, Cbncbfd ;
Mr, Fofir's, Lieut. Bartlett's ^~Mr:~ Swett's
fores, Pembroke; Mr. Town's and Ejq. Wig
gjnlsflffetJtykinffny; Mr. .IPaq'sfive, Hen
niker Mr. Disc's ftoh, Boj^aweu ; Mess. Wil
der <5 Bovvers's, and Mr. Williams's fibres, Sal
isbury ; Mr. Flanders's and /% &<ge'sfores,
Warner ; Mg^fyark'sforejfyrajfeire i^
tor Kelley's, Wane ; Mr. Lewis's fore, Canter
bury ; Major Duncan's & Mfrs. Ward &
Cubing'sfores, SanbbYnton ; Mr. Burn's fore,
Gumanton ; Mr. Wood', fore, Loudon ; Meffrss
Sergeants' fore^ Chefer—and aljo ofc & pofrid
ers from this rffi e.
FARM at Public Auction.
'TO RE SOLD,
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
At Sttckney's Tavern, Concord,
On the fecoud Wedn^day of March next, at three
of tbe clock, P. M.
A FARM, containing 100 acres
of good Land, lying near the meeting bouje in Dun
barton, formerly owned by Capt. Wm. Stark.
Conditions of payment will be
made known at the time of sale. ''
OLIVER FLANDERS.
Concord, Feb. 8, 1794. 68
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Public Audion. .
T TO BE SOLD,
By P ÜBLIC AUCTION,
On the 29th day of February, current.
At the house of Lt. Winthrop Carter, innholder
in Bojcawen,"
At two o'clock in the afternoon,
An excellent LOT of LAND,
SITUATED in Bofcawen, within half a
mile of the meeting boufe, an the College rood
leadingfrom Bofcawen to Salfury ; with a
Large, good, new Barn upon the'
premises ; thirty acres under improvement ; twen
ty of pafaring, and ten of mowing and tillage ;
and as fine a growth of white oak timber onjaia
lot, as any in the country.—Aljo,
Ajmail Place; adjoining [aid
premises —containing one acre and a half —under
good improvement —with a
Convenient mew Dwelling House,
enefory high—a,dafmall barnframe.
A very fuitabieplace for a merchant;
L A% Per) on inclining to treat
for the above at prtvaiejale, may know the terms
™"'n%HANIEL GREEN, 1
. qjaid Bofcawen.
Bofawen, February 6th, 1794., 68 -
N. B. Twelve months credit will
be given, and longer, if wanted.