The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-09-22 00:00:00, page 4

S^fofah laurel % bidden her fe,
Sbe wept for the fate of her ions that ohmflam
Whfntheflam offeree battle werejpread,
%fa.fr^' "^^ rein,
Rodef^hngo er Stains of dead.„
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Aform
Ah ! cetylfair Columbia to mourn,
Now lift upthine eyes, ancitby records behold,•
• %, c ^% the fo^tfte, 4
The Fourth di July in rich letters of gold,
: Ferrels the fenranoftb, name.
From the caverns of darkness th, da,.f, ring fall
Tekings andye tyrants beware ;. [dawn, rt
Your names foaUfeca, like the vapours of morn, :
Or vanish infotoms of air,
7%, temple, 0 Freedom, with grandeur fball rife,
'Ufoken b, t,rank's blajl;j
Iwbafis theearth, and itsfummit the Jkies,
. Andfirm as creation fall left."
CHORUS.
Then roufe,fair Columbia, to glory aspire;
All nature with Irani, erl fall gaze.
E'en now the dark feadows of discord retire,
Ana Europe is loft in th, blaze.
The Maid's choice of a Husband.
IF there's a man in heart and tongue sincere,
To virtue faithful, and of judgment clear ;
Ga, without foil), team'd without the jbm,'
Unlike the Jloven, more unlike the beau;
ArnidJi wboje manly features are exprefs'd
Thefoft emotions of the tender breast:
To him my freedom gladly I'll refgn,
Hisjoys, bisJorrows, only Jhall be mine.
Lamentation °f 70 HN BULL,
Ma, 23, 1794-
id IVE ear, O ye people, to my sor
row, take up a lamentation, for
the glory'of Britain is departed—ourj
most valiant armies are defeated, bur
invincible troops are made to fly be
fore their enemies. How are the
mighty fallen in battle! O, my foa,
my fore Frederick! my very bowels
are troubled when I think of the straits
thou waft driven to, when pursued by
the bloody rebels of France. Q, how
did horror, amazement and anguish
dutad thy foul on that day ! Driven
frqhthy trusty troops, surrounded by
foe, on every fide, without were fight
ing, within were fears—none to help
my beloved child in that tremendous
hour, O, Fredefi&, my son, my
fan ! raouki üßGta I had died for
thee,could that have prevented thy
downfall. 'Mbydarknefs cover that
day—let it riot be numbered among
the days of Old England—let it be
twin(ft—may all thebirth of the field
be Wte thereon) Stand amazed at
th^totrid tidings! miy every heart
rend with sorrow, may eve,y bread
burst With lamentation and bitter woe.
Thefetory of Britain is departed, her
troops fl, before her enemies,—- How
can I bear upunder such dire disgrace?.
Ignaw my topgue for the anguish
-of my tariffs findbh relief- more .
teftible than-death it this difgrace—
more gloom, than the grave is this
folemri feene.— Telfit dot in Flan
dert! pubhflii^left
the^rteaue^to odrCrown Ttjoice over
I^BBE^I
firlitittfra^liwiirtArinhlP commander I
1 U ye powers earrn, 1 ,
i come weak as an other man. 1 tear,
1 impoverished my kingdom to fop
port rhe dignity of the house of Bour
bon ?—Surely they never meant me
any good—they never effifted me in
time of need. Behold my reward!
I fear the hand of the Lord is against
me.
Aped man can never be mifrable, nor a wicked
\fman happy.
rirtHERE is not in the scale of na
'4 ture a more inseparable connec
tion of cause and effe&, than in the
case of happinefi and virtue: nor any
thing that can more naturally prp-'.
duce the one, or mote necessarily pre
fappofes the other. For, what is it
to be happy, but for a man to content
himfelf with his lot, in a chearful and
quiet resignation to the appointments
of God ? all the actions of our lives
ought to be governed with a refpeft
to good and evil : and it is only reason
that diftinguilhei: by which reason §
we are in such a manner influenced, as
if a ray of the divinity were dipt in a
mortal body ; and that is the perfec
tion of mankind. It is true, we have
not the eyes of eagles, nor the fagaci
'y of hounds; nor if we had could
we pretend to value ourfelyes upon
any thing which we have in common
with brutes^ What are we the better
for that which is foreign to us, and
may be given and taken away ? as
the beams of the fun irradiate the
earth, and , y.et remain where they
were ; so is it in feme proportion with
an holy mind, that illuftratet all our
actions, and yet adhere to its original.
Why do we not vwelbcommend a
horse for his glorious trappings, as a
man for his pompous additions ? %,,
mocha braver creature is a lion
(which r tf Qatuftought to be fiercer
and terrible) how,much braver (1 fay)'
in hi, native horror,ttan in hischains?
so that every thing in it# pure nature
piglet w best. ft it not health, no
bifa) riches, that can juftify a wicked
men ; nor is it the want of all these
that can diferedit a good one. That
is the sovereign biefling, which makes
tte poff^ffor of it valuable without
any thing else, and him that wants it
contemptible, though«he had all the
world besides. hispnot the painting,
gilding, or carving, that makes ^
good ihip: but if she be a nimble
sailor, tight and ftrong,to endure tne
seas, that is her excellency. It is the
edge and temper of the blade, that
makes* good (word ; not he rich
pels of the scabbard : and so it ishot :
money, or poffeffion^rhat make a man
considerable, but his virtue# ~ : ^
, U is every mah's duty to make
him.felf profitable tQ mankind : if he
can, to many ; if not, to fewer : X
not to neither, to his neigboufs ; but
however to himfelf. Thereare twb
republics ^i&a 0$ which ts fo
man purure , and a left, which! is the
place where we were born # : feme
fe^ebothat artime; some CT^only
the dels; the greater may be feived
ty I ^,^ ,^,,
I.ifi°'''A
ogLqr „. g, CT™V4/> O#W, 4U™X& ''*V4 li^
] he is co tonger a Citizen, he a yet a.|
&n ; but the whole world ir his |
I country, and human nature never
w&m mattes to work upon : but, if
nothing will terve a man in the civil
Government, unless he be prime min-
Iliter ; or in the field, but to command
in chief, it is his own fault. The
I common soldier where he cannot use
his hands fights with his locks, his ex
ample, hit encouragement, his voice;'
and Bands his ground even When he
has loft his hands; and does service
too with his very clarahur : so that
in any condition whatsoever, he still
difeharges the duty of a good patriot.
Nay, he that spends his time well;
even in * retirement; gives a great
example. We may enlarge indeed,
or contrast, according co the circum
stances of rime, place, or abilities, but
ibove all things wemuft be fort to
keep ourfelvei in action; for, be thst
is tlothful, is dead §ven while he lives.
Was there ever #ny Bate so desperate,
as set of Athens under the thirty ty,
rapts ; where it was capital to be
Ihoneft ; and the senate-house was
turned into a college of hangmen ,
never way any government so wretch
ed, and so hopetefs: and yet' Socrates
at the fame time preached temper
ance to the tyrants, and courage to
the rest, and afterwards died 4* emi
nent example of faith and refoiurion,
and , facrifice for the common good.
It isnot for a wife man co stand
fhiftirg and fencing with fortune, but
Ito oppose her barefaced ; for he is
fufficitntly convinced, that (be can do
him no hurt. 'She may take away
his fervaati, peffeffioni, dignity ; afr
:fault his body,put out his eyes, cut off
his hands, and (trip him of all the
external comforts otlife. But what
does all this amount to, more than the
recalling of,a trust, which, he ha^ re
ceived, with Condition to deliver it
up again upori'demand ? he looks
upon himit If as precarious, and only
lent to himfe*,arid yer he d0,,n0;
value himfelf cer the left, because he
is not hhown, but takes such cart al
iab honest man should do; of a thing
that is committed to him in trust.
Whensoever he that lent me mffelf,
and what Lhave, shall thll for all
back again, it is not loss, but # reftt
action ; andW^ft WUlingly deliver
up what rinoft urdefervedly 'w?s be
flowed upon me. And it will be
come me to return my mind' beuer
than I received it ":^
Demflfys, upon the taking of Me
gara, asked S^ilpo the phiiofopher
what he fi@@• nothing, iff he,
for I hadail that I,uo ca^ff 0^
about me. And yet the enemy had
then made himfelf master of his patri
mony, his children, and his country ;
but these he looked upon only as ad ?
ventitiops goods, &pd.vhder the com
mand of fortune : now h^ that neith-,
ter loft any thing, nor feared ?ny thing
fra public ruin, but was fafe and at
peace in the middle of ihe .flames,
and in the heat of. a military intempe
rance and fury i what violence or
provocation imaginable cannot such
a man as this ouc of the pofteffion ts
himfelf ? to and caftfes m, bi!
mined and battered ; ootthcre is no
art, or engine, that can fubverc a
Ready mind. I have made my way
(^fy^, food blood :
what is become of my children, I
^^°^ thefc % +
bleffmgv, and fervent, that are con
/I'll A ted
1 [tut; some nave ion rneir eiiates , 1
lovercome : Ufa only thy fortiWU.
[been too hard fo^mihe, fe^^.
look Babylon; SdpF^^
the capital was burnt: but, there i& „
no fire, or violence that can difcom*•
pose a generous mind. And.let Ul':"'
not take this charader neither for %; ]
thtaerfy for @ll ages afford fate .
ib&an& of this elected virtue, A%
good man does his duty, let ft be
never fo' painful, so hizV/ous, -W
n&r so grette 1q1, !o himjz, and'it.
is not all the, <noney ? t^e pow'er, and.
the^eafure in the i&tfao fy,^),
force, or heceffity, tffiirtab maker him
wicked : He *cdpl^ftcsVhat he is to
do, not what he is tcrii ffer, fnd will -
keep on hit course, tbo' there mould'
be nothing but gibbets and torments *
in the way^ And in this inflance.6,
Stilpo, who, whq fie .had lofrra
country, hi# wife, his children ffie
town on fire bverfhi, head, himfelf *
efcopipg very hardly, atebnaked out °
of the : 6^mes ; 7 have saved all ty..
goods, (lays he) myjuflice, m, Courage,
mj^e,perance,m, Prudence ; account
ing nothing his own, or valuable ;
and flawing how mucS Mer it was
to overcome a nation than one wife
man. fc is a certain mark of a brave
mind, not :0 be moved by any acci
dents. The upper region of the air
admits neither clouds, nor cempefts ;
the thunder, storms, androeteora, are
formed below; and this is a differ
ence betwixt a mean, and an exalted
mind ; the former.il rude and tumul
tuary ; the latter is modest, venera^
ble, composed, aod,always quiet in i(&
ftaubn. In brief, it is th^ conference
tfat pronounces upon the man, whe
!(her he be happy, or miserable. But,
though sacrilege and.adultery be ge
nerally condemned, how rn^ny ate)
there still that do not so much as btoffi %
at the one, and io Irish, that take a
;g@tf ipthe other ? For, nothing is •
Ittiprefyfomon than for great thieve
:to ride in triumph, when the little
;ones are punished. But, Let wicked
'nejs e/cape, as it ma, at the bar, it
neVer fails of deing Office upon itftlf;
for ever, guilt, per Jon p hi; own,tog-
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLET
Rcm^kable Events, Inventions,
W^ ? >^ANp .„„
/The &li, Country, and; Writings of learned
The whole comprehending, in one view, the
'analyfis; or outiines, ofUniverfal Hiftory,.
I from the Creation. fCmtiMue^f^wl
k#'f HE battering ram, teftffi
l ^nd other military engines,
invented by Arnones ?' , z< &j.
so. 430 The biftpry of the Old
X^ra^^-^^^'
Malachi the „<*^P'PPr, #?P
'Socrates, the founds pfmoral ph&
fophy among th.[ Gftbeliff
immortality of the foul, a Rate prre
wards and pppifhments ; for which,
and other fablime doctrines, he is put
to death by the Athenians, who food
after repent, and erect to hit memo
burnt by Eroftratti; to perpetuate his
^mrtte ttf^tf^t •
fr stem wfy for^x ^
lof&yher of Svr^cufe *,bT Alfjtan'
der the Great, king tit M acerfon^ cori
tter nation, bEAmt '^At< AJexatkJ^&
fofior, his brother Aru jaws %chafed
king. On which'fevertf I'^f hi? niheffair