The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-03-20 00:00:00, page 4

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SENTIMENTAL MEDLE Y.
" TO RAISETHt GENIUS-, AND TO MEND THE HEART." f / h
the Runlet,
t HYPOCRISY.
BEHOLD the man with looks demure
And pharafaic cant-
With knotted brows and eyes cast down
On neighbors follies rant.
Sure neighbor T<wif must groan for fins
Which he commits each day—
He ne'er war Bun,an known to read.
Or in his house to pray.
He rarely does so meeting go,
But lounges it in bed ;
A finner vile, a wretch indeed,
He'll rue it when he's d^ad.
Thank God, I am a better man,
f I sigh, I feaft and pray,
Attend on all devotion's rules.
Revere the sabbath day.
Toall my worldly outward cares
I stria attention pay,
Nor loose one penny by negled,
Nor half-pence give away.
Prudence, that dear refpedful maid,
I love her from my heart, V^
In early life thirmaxim taught,
With interest never part.
Hence when the Ihivering haggard foul
Accosts my bolted door,
I tell them, 64 Woik you rascals, work,
And you'll have food in store!"
BDt neighbor T^, that wicked Wretch,
~Willoft their satchels fill ;
His doors are open .to their wants,
He helps them with good will.
E'en let him do then as he will,
If I can sigh and pray ;
On Sundays, wear a dismal face, :
'To heaven I lead the way.
r on MUSIC and BEAUTY.
MUSIC has power to melt the foul,
° B, Beaut, nature's jwa,'d ; 1
Each can the univerje control,
CT Without the ether's aid.'
But now, together, both appear.
And force united try ; ,
Music enchants the lifting ear,
And Beaut, charms the e,e.
What cruelty ibeje powers toj?ix, ')^
Tbe tra^
Ob ! let the found be left divine,
Or Laura look less fair.
fflfceUanp.
H^/s to young Pbtfeians.
A NY young phyGcian wt»
/ I withe# to come into pradice
§ very Ipeedily, thouid always let
out with a new theory. If he
cou4 attempt to prove that the
yblood does ^/circulate, he would
be most certainly a made man.—
He should make, too, some won
derful discovery in feme little arti
cle of diet : for ibffa&be @ld
attack the wholefomenef# of salt,
of bread, or of the inside of a sir
loin of beef in preference to the
outside. He ihould attempt feme
thing figgular in his manner i, he|
J may be wither very brutal or very
pdlifhed, at he pleafet. Ratcliffe ;
told Mead one day, on the latter's
ftarting^or practice, “ There ate
two wafl, my boy, for a Physician
^ to treat hit patieoti ;either to ^
^ty or to cajole them—l have Uken.
the 6r&, and done very weW,O
you fofo ^ay rake the latteh,
and perhaps do at weft"x
A physician should never iffeft
ignorance of the cause of any com
plaiot ; he ffiould even place it in
the piDcreii, or the pineal gland,
if he ha# no other place ready for
it. He must always be ready with
an answer to every question that a
lady puta to him ; the odd# are
that foe will be fatiafied with it ;
he must not care whether there
be or be not a pcffib!e folurion of
it, I remember hearing a lady
aft her apothecary, from what
fobHahce caftor oil (the oleum pat
erae Chrifli) wa# made ; he, unem
barrassed, laid, it waa made from
the beaver :—I did not expose hi#
ignorance, but dtfited hi# partner
to advise him to be more caution#
another time. A lady wa# one
day very acxiou# to know how
long fheShould be ill, "Madam,"
replied the Physician, 0 that de
pend# on the duration of the dis-1
ease." “ Much obliged <o you,
Dodor,'for your information,"
war che lady's wife tofwe;
'A late Physician of Bath (who
Wil a fine gentleman, as well a# a
good scholar and eminent Phyfi
ciao,) when lent for to a patient
who indulged himfelf in strong
drink, efed to inquire of what par
ticular liquor he waa food, and to
make him drink it well diluted
with water, after he had given
him a pretty strong vomit ; thii,
of course, rather indisposed the
patient against hi# beloved pota
tion for some time. Dr. Ratcliffe,
who indulged himfelf not unfre
quently-with a bottle or two of
claret, was pace called in to a lady
who had the fame propensity, but
who was drunk. The Dodor,
who wa# in the fame fixation
himfelf, but who little dreamt of
the lady's condition, approached
the bedside, arid finding himfelf
unable to feel her pulse, stammer
ed out speaking of himfelf)
" Deviliih drunk, indeed I" The
fady' amaid, who was prefect,
thinking the Doctor had laid thia
of her lady, whispered him,. " In*
deed, Sir, sou have hit upon my
miftrefi'a disorder; (he is apt
now and then to take a little too
much wine." The Doctor now
had hi# cue# prescribed as well as
be could to her particular com
plaint some emetick tartar and
warm water, and buttled out of
the room a# well as he could.
It fra# always been found of
great use to a Physician to be of
some fed in religion ; he is io
general ptefy fare of those that
belong to iL and to some other
patiento out of curiosity. He
,/hould be a Catholic, a Presbyte
rian, a Quaker, a Sandemaniao, a
SwedeoWgian, or a Jew. The
thee aid tboupt the late Dr. John
Fothergill of London, was fop
poled to be worth two thousand
pounds a year to him at least.
:x^fA; fcfct-*art„
^MAR^ A FRAGMENTS
for me , ler.„ so;
j, fa fmevet! The rose has no
fragrance for me ; for I have loft
all sense of iu frets. While the
:&widtop&Oftbtaleafou refem
blei me ; for the tear i# ever on
my cheek.
" Alas! Ala,!" said Mary,
lifting up her ftreamirg eyes to
heaven—" when will sorrow yield
ita vidim to the grave ?"
Thus she complained ; and
turning through the garden gate,
walked (lowly across the down,
flhe flocki, released from their
folds, were scattered over the ver
dure, but she saw them not ; when
(he entered the coppice, the wood
lark begat? its matin song—but
(he heard it not ; the grove was
vocal with the music of every bird,
but they sung not for her.--—/
" Here," said she as she reclined
on a feat beneath a spreading oak,
66 Here Henry firft explained the
(offering# of hit heart ; which hi#
eye#, his adions, and even his fr
lence, had told long before—and
here I firft acknowledged that hi#
pure and faithful passion was twin
fitter to that which.was the inmate
of my bosom! On the bark of this
oak are the innocent traces of hi#
affection : my name is there eo
graved by his hand.: I saw him
wound the tree to form the rural
token of hit love; and, when he
bad done the work, I called him
my (hepherd. Alas! where is he
now ? on what distant (here does
he lie ? or, is he entombed in some
Unfathomable gulph of the ocean :
What must have been bit pangs,
when his iaft word# were bluffing#
on me! But his pings were fhorr,
and mice endure ; the, are over,
and mine still torment me !— Nine
long months have brought no tid
ings of him. ± He i# gone forever
from me! We loved ; fortune
smiled ; friends approved ; the
altar was flepared, and Hymen
was lighting his torch, when hon
or called. Stem, rigid, inflexible
honor, issued its summons, and
Henry obeyed it. He left me,
he said, to return more worthy of
me! Alai, he went to return no
moire ! What a fabric of happineG
is funk in ruin ! —Ye fair, ye smil
ing profpeas, are ye gone forever,
Alas! ye are vanished from me,
and I am desolate."
Mar, left ,he wood ; and, with
flow soot-steps, afeended the hill.
The ocean presented in azure ex
pa-de before her ; and she cast her
eyes to the distant fails, that whit
ened in the fun. " Prosperous
gales," said (he, '' bear you on,
ye happy mariners; your vessels
dance upon the waves, and your
fam will reach the port to which
you are defined! But my poor
heart is a,rated by one eternal
ftorn%te there iino haven as
rest f6rme, but the tomb !">
On a sudden she descended to
efre ffiore. The (urges were re
sponsive to her fight : She liftec
ed to her melancholy murmur#,
which were in unifan with them.
An she flood, (he saw a body float
ing on the waters ; and ere she
felt the full force of her iifing ap
pri|henfions, the wav, bote it«^
her teen. She&rieked, and ffirunkl
.dten upon it!
iT whobad watch-;
fed ta&fe, found her embracing
the co'pfe, hertetf Embraced 'b^
■^■renraareme^rctCTreaßsatio^^
kite icy arms of Death. On the
kole^fs body of H^ry she txpir
ed, Fate forbade the blififol un
ion of life •,but in death they were
united forever !
Sympathetic friend/hip erod
ed a memorial of them on the
finds—
Where, round the mournful bridal mo
nupent,
The guilty billows innocently roar,
And the rough tailor, palling, drops a
tear !
THE ftaraUff.
WHEN neighbor# dwell to
gether in peace, vifir in
friendfhip, convene for ufeful im
provemenror harmless amufemenr,
take part in each other's prosperity
and adversity, concur in the gov
ernment of their families, are cao^
did to excuse and careful to con
ceal e&ch other's trivial or acciden
tal failing#, fludiou# to reform re
al and daogerou# faults ; when all ,
abide io their callings and quietly
perform their own bufaefe, a bles
sing will attend tneir labor#, and
success will finite on their dtfigns,
their intercourse will be easy and
pleasant vir ue, and a foundation
will be laid for the bappinef# of
fucceedi. g generations. But if
etch is hourdup within, himfelf,
and look# with unfeeling indiffer
ence on all around him, or beholds
hit inferior with contempt and his
Superior with envy ;'if every meet
ing is filled with impertinent and
angry controversy, and every vis
it employed in tattling and back
biting ; if neighbor, defames
neighbor and each watches for
advantage against another ; if ev
ery brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbor will walk in
Banders, one had better seek a sol
itary lodging in the wilderaefr, and
dwfell alone io the earth.
Banquet of Camus.
BIOGRAPHIC AL ANECDOTE..
IN June, 1770, died in England, Mrs.
Ross, celebrated for her beauty and
constancy. Having met with opposition
in her engagement with Capt. Charles
Ross, the followed him with men's
clothes to America ; where, after such
a research and fatigue as scarce any of
her sex could have undergone, she found
him in the woods lying for dead, with a
poisoned wound', after a Ikirmiih with
the Indians ; when, having previously
studied forgery ip England, she fared Sis'
life by fucking his wound, and nuffing
him with scarce a covering, for the space ,
of fix weeks ; during which time she re
mained upfufpeaed by him, died her face
with lime and bark : The Captain re
covering, they moved into Philadelphia ;
where, as food as fhe.had found a clergy
man to join her to him forever, she ap
peared as herfelf, the priest accompany
wcli%\^^'^°
They lived four year# in a fondnefs that
could only be interrupted by her declin
ing health, the fatigue she had under
gone', and th, poison not properly ex
pelled, which she had imbibed from his
wound, undermining her conftitution: 4
the knowledge he had of it, and piercing
regret tor having been the occafiefyaf
fething him ffill more sensibly, he died'
of a broken heart at Johnstown.
^ She lived to return, and implore for.
givenefs of her family, who© she had dif
trtfed lo long by their ignorance of her
deffiny. She died, in confequerice of her
grief and affe&ion, lit th^ age of twenty;
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