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Tacitus remarks, that Galba, when only a private
gentleman, seemed to deserve the supreme authority;
and that he ceased to appear worthy as soon as he
obtained it. It was quite the reverse with the Em
peror Vespasian, who some years after succeeded
him: He became better on feeing himfelf above
others; he was sensible that his merit ought to be
proportioned to his Rate; and that, being invested
'with a right to command others, he should be fu
pcrior to them as much by his virtues and talents
as by his power and dignity. So true it is, that
the sage is railed above supreme grandeur; and
tliat, adorned with his virtues, he is grand both
by and ofhimfelf.
Titus, Velpafian's son, was actuated by the like
noble sentiments; he it was that lamented bitterly
at n ight, if tlie day liad el~aped him in forgetting
to confer lome signal benefit on mankind. There
is therefore a necessity for exerting talents, virtues,
and knowledge lor the well governing of men; and
this is what induced some of the judicious ancients
.to lay, ' I hat none but the Gods can conduct and
direct mortals; or, at least that they cannot be
happy but under the administration of a Sage.' To
keep the passions of others submissive, there is a ne
cessity of triumphing over one's own; to oblige them
to be virtuous, one mull let the example and be the
model. I here is not a better lesson than that whicli
a Superior makes it his duty to pradife.
The more elevated the character is, the greater
ought the efforts to be to express it in its fulnefs, in
order to merit the approbation and esteem of the
fpe&ators. Dignities degrade and debase, if we do
not place ourselves above them, and perfect our
'felves by their use. The necessary courage of mind
forfeit-correction, is preferable to a haughty valour.
Honours are indifferent by thcmfelves; they are a
rank, which force has often usurped; which intrigue
and caballing may acquire; in short. they are things
of institution, which luppofe not always true merit,
neither gan they give it; whereas to rife superior to
dignities, the better to know their fragility and
purfuc that line of conduct, which fnall enable them
to obtain, from their country, that juitice which
may be denied them by this Board.
Philadelphia, 'fane. 18th, 177b —Signed for and
by order of the whole, H. DOUGHERTY,
JOHN RICE, JOHN HAMILTON.
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Please to give the enclosed a place and oblige
B. H.
If is a certain mark of greatness of foul, when ho
, pours make a man better.
q IT LES and t eafures are not the constituents
1 of greatness: If we are willing to find it, we
mud seek for it in the heart. Little mills are almoß
always below their state, how indifferent soever it be,
because they only look at it on the fide pride shews
them; and, feeing nothing farther, the fight of
their inferiors make themfelves.appear great in their
own eyes. Their falfe elevation, being founded on
felf-love,.on the bafeneis of others and their weak
views, contains nothing solid nor attractive; it ra
ther expoics their littlenels and vanity to derision,
and makes a mockery of the glory they fondly flat
ter themlclves they have acquired. They perhaps
fancy themlclves greater than other's, on account
of magnificent titles and more ample Rorcs of
wealth; as it, indeed, a frivolous appearance and
fp, lender could bellow true'meri: and peflonal qua
liie; as if an arbi riry, irdl and fugitive exterior
Was our red property and ourselves.
True grandeur of foul is intelligent, both in re
gard to itfelf and others. Men are sometimes ca
lumniated, because they are not known; and the
world is declaimed against, though not better known
A eit foul Rudites men to correct their faults, and
to ler jußice to their virtues; such do not de
f, . the goods of the world; but, far from abusing
them, turn them co a good use.
Tlnßead of virtu , talents, and knowledge, num
bers confin themselves to acquire gold and dignities;
it teems they are more desirous 01 appearing as men
of merit, or honed men., than of really being so;
and that they prefer the frivolous gifts of ambition
an 1 fortune to thole of virtue, whicli are permanent
andoccafion neither regret nor remorse.
The wile man thinks quite otherwise, and looks
down witli scorn on these chimeras and pompous
trifles: He is always model! and confident with
hbhfelf, whether in private or in public; he bor
rows nothing from the apparatus of rank or oirth ;
h confiders honours, riches, and dignities, as mo
tiv s for displaying his merit; he does not despise
them, because these things are in the order of Pro
vidence, and are useful with a proper economy.
Honorary employs raise the loul, and give her, as
it were, wings, to fly to whatever is grand and lu
blune. When glory is disdained, the virtues that
fefye so merit it are often neglected; yet it is by
them that we become truly worthy of elogiums:
Those distributed by flattery are nothing but a ho
mage the heart and truth disavow ; but incenle of
fered to a vain idol, whole al ar will be broke down
the moment it c^fes to be ufelul. The praises of
flatterers are only' fit for corrupting the heart, for
making the foul Ifil, for extinguishing emulation,
and for keeping us at a dißance from the mark,
When at the fame time we imagine we have reached
it.
emptiness; to use them a^ 1 degree for acquiring
the qualities and virtues we are deficient in, to con
fider them as a means for contributing the good and
prosperity ol the lociety we are members of, are
evident demonßrations of the greatness of foul that
never fails to Ihine with pure lulfre.
But to what do we give the appellation of great
ness of loul? Is it to an immoderate third alter
glory, drenched in blood, nurtured by carnage, and
guided neither by reason, prudence, not justice?
Such a greatnels of foul would be rather a cruelty
and barbarity than a noble and generous lentiment.
True greatness of foul ought to be conformable to
the rules of equity; its object ought to be the doing
of all the good it is capable of, without requiring
any retribution for the favours granted or the trea
sures distributed: True greatness of foul pays itfelf,
as it were with its own hands, by the fatisfa&ion of
doing good. Thus, when Augußus pardons Cinna,
who had conspired to deprive him of his empire and
life; Augußus, by that adion, rises above himfelf,
and deems worthy of commanding the Romans.
The Imperial dignity made him better than he
was; Augustus was superior to O&avianus, because
his foul was noble and generous: Ilie true great
ness ot loul proceeds from virtue; any other is
but an inchantment, that dazzles men by a falfe
splendor, or a fatal snare, laid by intereß or am
bhion.
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Thoughts on Different Subjects.
STATES are upon the brink of defruGion when
the reward of merit becomes the price of intrigue.
The theatre or fpeTtacle of the world resembles that
of the Olympic Games, some keep foop in it, and think
of nothing but their profit ; others pay dearly there
with their persons and run in quest of glory ; others
content themjelves in feeing the games, and the con
dition of the laji is not the worst.
There is not more cowardice in attacking a man
unarmed, than there is in speaking ill of a man behind
his back.
Tin empire is in a tottering condition if the Magi
fracy do not obey the laws, and the people the Magi-
Jirates. ,
Anacharfis came from the extremities of Scythia to
Athens, where the great affairs of Jiate were decided
in the affem/lies of the people. As those deeijions were
not always equitable, he said to Solon, that he was
afonjhed that men of good sense proposed questions,
and left them to be decided by fools.
Thou ajkejl if the ant which is under thy feet has a
right to complain ? Yes, or thou haft no right to com
plain when thou art crafted by the elephant.
Fire was adored in Perfepolu, and Perfepolis was
defrayed by fire. The violent man generally falls by
his own violence.
Counter plotting an abjurd fellow is like fighting a
left handed fencer ; you receive a wound, because it
comes in a direction from whence you had no reason
to expert it, and he gains a vidlory, merely by his
aukwardnefs.
Liberty is a fine founding wofd, but mos of those
who use it mean nothing more by it than a liberty to
oppress others, themselves being uncontrouled by any
Juperior authority,
Politic .I corruption presages, or is a preparative
to the ruin of any Rate or empire. It is easily known
when individuals begin to Separate their interest from
that of the public; and when it takes root, the peo
ple of such a corrupt Rate muR naturally be un
happy at home, and little regarded abroad. Then
the duration of the Rate becomes insensible more
and more precarious, and it is chance which either
delays or hastens the fate of it.
Mbnfieur Paschal in his treatise, on the misery
of man lays, that all our endeavours after greatnels
proceed from nothing but a desire of being sur
rounded by a multitude of persons and affairs,
that may hinder us from looking into ourselves,
which is a view we cannot bear.
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TO BE SOLD by PUBLIC UENDUE,
At Eight o'clock this Evening, at the Coffee-houfe,
The Brig H AWKE.
SHE fails remarkably sass, is just hove down, has
a clean fallow bottom, is well calculated for a
Privateer or Letter of Marque, and is all ready to
take her guns on board. She now lies at Weft's
wharf, but will be moved opposite to Market street.
An inventory to be seen to-morrow, at the Coffee
houfe. June 22.
LOST between Amboy and Bordentown, on
the 15th inst. by a wounded Serjeant, on his
way from Quebeek to Philadelphia, a black leather
POCKET-BOOK, containing above Forty Conti
nental Dollars a Recommendation to the Honor
able Congress. fign'd by General Thompson, the
Pruflian General, and Col. Livingston, with other
papers of no use but to the owner, who expects that
if any person of liberal principles finds it he will
fend it to Redmund Byrne, at the Masons and
York arms near the crooked Billet wharf; if any
of contrary principles should find it, they will oblige
the fubferiber, by fending the papers as above,
retaining the money for their trouble.
WILLIAM WHITING.
Philadelphia June 19, 1776.
CA M E to the Inn of the Subscriber in German
town alias Creafoam, on the firß of this inR.
a Bay HORSE. he is about seven or eight vcar<;
old, 14 or 15 hands high, and is branded with M.
The.owner is requeued to prove his property, p.r.
charges and take him awav, from
June 3, 1776 MARTINSHAUIFEG r j
THREE POUNDS Reward.
S TOLEN or Strayed, out of the fuMcrib rd lot
the upper end of Market-Street, on Friday the
gift of May last, the three following HORDE S,
viz, a light brgwn horse, eight years old, about
fourteen hands high, with both ears cropped, a
bright Rar in his forehead, and Shod all round, a
few white hairs on his back, occasioned by the Saddle, a
Short tail; lie paces and trots The other a bright
bay horse, about fourteen hands and a half high,
with a large blaze down his face, three white feet, a
switch tail, Shod all round, paces and trots, and
about five years old. Also a dark bay horle, about
fourteen hands and a half high, fix years old, has
a Rat in his forehead, and trots, with a small fore
place about the bigness of a dbllar on the hind part
of his back; and, when taken away, was a little
lame.
Whoever takes up the said h< rfes, and brings
them to the fubferiber in Market-Rreet sh 11 have
the above reward, or in proportion for any of them-
RICHARD YORKE Pott Rider.
Just printed, published, and to be fold by R. AIT
KEN, bookseller, Philadelphia,
Printed with a new type, on a good paper, in one
odavo vol, (price in boards One Dollar, bound
Ten Shillings) \
A new System of,
MILITARY DISCIPLINE
founded on Principal.
ByaGENERALOFFI CER.
CONTEN I S,
Chap. I. Se&. 1. Of dress. Art. 1. Of clothing.
2. Of convenience. 4. Of appearance. Sedt IL
Of arms. Art. 1. Of the bayonet. 2. Of the fire
lock. Se&. 111. Of accoutrements.
Chap. IL The duty of the Corporal. Sea. L
Inftruaions. Se&. 11. Of relpe& to superiors. Art.
I. Of deportment. 2. Of the handing faluce. 3.
Of the palling salute. Se&. 111. To hand. Art. 1.
Of handing erea. 2, Of planting the feet. Se&.
IV. The facings. Se&. V, To march. Art. 1.
To balance the body. 3. To ground the foot. 3.
To limit the Rep. 4. To prelerve equality of pace-
Four propositions on the regularity ot Repping and
forming the ranks. Art. 5. Of marching by files,
wheeling, &c.
Chap. 111. Duty of the Serjeant. Se&. I. Instruc
tions in twenty particulars. Se&. 11. The parade
exercise, with the ufeful observations thereon.
Chap. IV. Duty and inftruaions of the Adjutant.
The method of performing the different kmas of
parapet and rejoicing fires. Sea. 111. Of the Co
lumn, exemplified in a variety of Cafes.' Of puffing
a bridge.
Se&. IV. Of the square. The square formed
out of one battalion, confiding of four grand divi
sions exemplified in twenty leven particulars.
Chap. V. The exercise as it is to be performed by
signal or word of command from the Major or
from any other officer. A Sketch of a battalion
confiding of ten companies, in each sixty-nine pri
vates and three corporals, making in the whole se
ven hundr. d and twenty men rank and file, drawn
up in reviewing order, and according to Seniority.
Rules for telling off the battalion, and for polling
the officers both at exercise and at a&ion. A sketch.
of a battalion formed for aftioii or exercise, with the
ranks at the whole didance or open , order. Sig
nals, words of command, and particular references.
Rules, maxims, and observations, for the govern
ment, condud, and discipline of an army.
To the PUBLIC.
ALL sciences have their peculiar graduates, as
Well to inllrud pupils in their rudiments, as to bring
them to the higher elements of th ir profeffion; our
author has therefore alotted to the Corporal, to the
Serjeant, and to the Adjutant, their different de
grees of instruction, that each may be responsible Tor
those committed to his charge; and by that means
that the exercise may be more correct and expediti
ously learned. He then introduces the whole exer
cise complete, as it is to be performed by word of
command from the Major, or any other commissi
oned officer, or by signal. In that part where our
author treats of the field exercise, he comprehends
such operations as are necessary to be performed
against the enemy, as different exigencies may there
require. In treating of the Column, the Line, and
the Square this author points out their various
uses and purposes, shews some of their capital de
fers, and proposes Several amendments. Thewhole
is concluded with an Appendix containing rules,
maxims, and observations tor the govrament. con
duct, and discipline of an army.
This work is Written upon a new plan, and is
peculiarly adapted for the use of young officers,
Shewing the particul r duties of each, and the molt
easy method of training their men in order to be
come expert soldiers,