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When beauty would assert control,
Without the eternal charms of soul;
'Tis like a flower,l
That opens at the noontide hour;
To Waste its bloom I
O'er many a foul and mouldering Bonel
That lies conced'd, beneath a church-yardl
stone,
Within the t6mb.
In puellam Chloen, Diaboli nomen u- 1
stir,are, assaetam.
Lepida quidam multum, ac formosissimal
Chloe;
Sedtamen (nec mirum) non sine Diabolo estl
••••
Lewenhoeck, an indefatigable Ger
man philosopher, once had the curiosi.
t, to peep through a flea's eye^ which
he had fitted into a microscope, and by
which, it seems, he was marvellously
instructed and entertained ; for it di
minished objects, at the same time it|
multiplied them almost ad infinitum,
'still preserving their forms and color
fogs distinct. He counted upwards of
^ &00 facets on the corner of a flee's
eye. He must have been as fond of
laborious trifles, as the celebrated Tor
pedo man.
Take away aU food for self-love,
and you put an end to the noblest
career.
It is hoped that President Madison,
in uttering his late proclamation, has
Lex Jed the limits prescribed by
: HUC ET ILLUC;
or, LITERARY wanderings.
No. 4.
YES—let the stingless censor chide,
With many a frown of senseless zeal;
The lip of age may well deride
Emotions, which it cannot feel.
Not for the prude's averted eye,
Did love supply his warmest themes;
Oh! she may blush and lay them by, I
Yet still retain them in her dreams.
Can 1 condemn? This soul of mine,
Whose pulse in pleasure beats so fast,
In the same glowing mould with thine,
lor friendship and for love was cast.
Thee, when a child unknown to art,
The Teian taught his simple strain,
That, warm as life-blood, leaves the heart,
And whelming seeks the heart again.
Nascentur, eheu! miserisque doloribus an
gent
Ej a, age, virtutidum gratia,fama per orbem,
Forsan, mirantem nostrum meminisse ju
vabit. F.
Nil desperandum est. Jam monumentum
condere firmum,
Dum favet aetas, fas est; mox animique
An potius dandum studiis gravioribus olim ?
Monet vita brevis nimium non credere sorti.
Eja, age; nam tentanda per nunc est secula
fama,
Nomina erit cui tollere quidem ad sidera,
nostrum.
Quis non optat ipse virum volitare per ora L
Quicquid an nobis tali sit munere majus?-
!^g^ putareque te, amjcule, sectarier um
bram.
Absit grata quies, absit, o, somnus in lucem.
Hisce favens precibus te goncute ipsum;
Nam nobis licet aeque aliis contingere metam.
"uis etenim studio, die, non inclaruit arte ?
Vol mora Pel requies est danda laboribus
When virtue sleeps,
Alas! full oft awakes and Weeps;
'Tis yielding as the rose's stem,
When zephyr spies a glittering gem,
And, asking for a hiss atone,
Robs the precious diadem!
Furnish me, good Heavens! with a heart of
stone,'
Quid faciamus? An tenebris damnabimus
vitas ?
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tumultus
nulla.
gtemp,
BEAUTY,
One is often deceived by sound. A
student being asked the meaning of the
above words, which are, I think, to be
found somewhere in the Odes of Ho
race, gave the following obvious trans
lation, viz.—
" There remains nothing of the dead,
but their bones."
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Between self-complacency and self
conceit, the line of distinction is not al
ways easily run.
• •• •
It is not the pleasure we receive from
life that binds us to it ; but the plea
sures we are always imagining to re
ceive.
'' Man never is, but always to be blest."
Swift was not less illiberal than witty,
when he defined a modest man to be a
man of nasty ideas.
• •••
Sterne makes Yorick call gravity an
arrartt scoundrel. It is frequently no
better than a mask to conceal villany ;
and never better than a covering to
some corporal, or mental defect.
• ••^^
No man ever yet knew how to es
timate his own abilities. That must be
left to the publick.
•• ••
They only, who have suffered real
affliction know how to offer relief.—
Would we afford consolation to one
in distress, we must appear to partici
pate in his pains. It is useless to
" sing songs to a heavy heart."
• •••
There are prejudices imbibed in
youth, which no future impressions
can ever remove. You may bray a
man in the mortar of logick, to the last
thread of existence, and still those pre
judices remain active as ever. They
stick closer than life itself.
Numerous, resistless, strange, hor
|rid, and unaccountable are the spectres
Ithat continually rise before the diseas
ed imagination of an hypocondriack.
Women are better judges than men
of human character.
To strike o# those passages in our
composition, which at first impress us
as uncommonly beautiful, was the just
advice of an experienced tutor.
We do wrong to conclude that a
man has no pride, because he has the
art of concealing it.
I Prudence is not to be acquired, more
Ithansuch and such a confirmation of
the organs of the body. Prudence, if
any thing be, is the gift of nature.
••••
I There is no term in the English lan.
Iguage more prostituted than that of
[friend. We frequently call those our
I friends, who are prepared to " laughat
lour calamities," arid "mock when fear
I cometh." It is a trite, but a true ob
-Iservation that no one knows his real
I friends, who has not known adversity.
I The following lines, it is believed, have
sound policy. We fear he too much
resembles his predecessor, by imagin
ing, like my “ Uncle Thomas," in a
novel of that name, that, being chosen
grand regulator, he has a right to
regulate and mis-regulate, just when
he pleases.
Epigram.
No bliss I'm sure can thrive beneath the sun,
, Since love and wretchedness are often one.
Matilda's charms with painful pleasure thrill;
Ifear and curse her, yet I love her still.
There now and then appear upon
the theatre of life men, who seem en
titled to the appellation of literary
gladiators, —men, whose solid, yet
flexible minds can support, with ap
parently equal address, the adverse sides
of any possible question.. Such a man
was Dr. Johnson, and I think we can
boast of at least one such man, now
living in this country.
Superstitition is akin to infidelity.
No one is altogether above flattery.
Nil de mortuis nisi bonum.
•• • •
•• • •
• •••
It is much to be doubted whether
any living persons are masters of the
dead languages. I have known more
than one instance of Cicero's being
corrected by a learned professor.
Labour is the first physical good of
man.
Whoever is not a christian is an in
fidel, whether he believe it or not.
Some people's infidelity reaches no far
ther than the head, other's affect both
the head and heart.
The richest, the most powerful, the
most learned, the most virtuous of man
kind pass away, and are forgotten.
When a Washington dies, the world
may be in tears ; yet nature gives no
signs of wo. The sun rises and sets
just as before, the flowers smell as
sweet, the birds sing as merrily, and
the world of mankind will, in a few
days, laugh as heartily as ever. When
I am disposed to be serious, I cannot
forbear sometimes thinking what an
inconsiderable atom I am in the grand
scale of existence. I survey the beau
tiful canopy of the heavens, consisting
of planet after planet, “ wheeling un
shaken thro' the void immense ;" and
every suggestion of human pride dies
within me ; yet when I come to con
sider that the little numen inhabiting
the frail tenement, I call myself, is
of more importance than all this inani
mate matter, of more vnlue than all
worlds, I am humbled to the dust.
Alas! how little do we consider the
end of our being! What a theme for
rational triumph to the Christian, that,
notwithstanding his vileness, God loves
him more, than he can possibly love
himself !
That man possesses true courage and
magnanimity, who can forgive and for
get injuries.
•• • •
The term but is a great destroyer of
reputations.
•••♦
Sourness of look is none, or at most
a very fallible indication of sourness of
temper.
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I have known a man, who was both
a philosopher and a christian, and yet
afraid of thunder ; but I was far from
supposing his mind the peccant part.
The fault, no doubt, resided in his
constitution.
••••
A certain rich gentleman was lately
complaining in a coffee-house, that he
had three fine daughters to whom he.
would give ten thousand dollars each ;
and yet he could find no body to marry
them.—" With your leave, Sir," said
an Irishman who was present, stepping
up very obsequiously, " I'll take two
;of them!"
A lady of quality reproaching the
Turkish ambassador on the laws of
Mahomet permitting them to have so
many wives. "It is permitted to us
Madam," replied the ambassador, " in
order that we may find in many all
those qualifications which center in you
alone."
Henery IV. being informed that
/two physicians had abjured their relig
ion, he said to Duplessis Mornay,
66 Your religion, Sir, is very sick, the
physicians have given it up.".
Bacon, Locke, Newton, Milton,
Pascal, Addison, Johnson, Sir W.
Jones, &c7 &c. were warm friends and
zealous supporters of the Christian re
ligion. What other testimony of its
truth, short of divine revelation, could
be desired ?
A man's religion keeps pace with
his humility.
To a man of obtuse perceptions, the
elegant sharpness of wit is less accept
able than the bluntness of a pun.
occurred with all the force of truth to
almost every one in the course of his
life:,
" And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame
But leaves the wretch to weep.
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