The Pennsylvania ledger, or, The Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-29 00:00:00, page 4

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From the Lyon's Mouth.
TW°" wife arc ° ur Rulers? Our Nobles, how
1.1 good?
Their vafTals how kindly they treat?
Denying them any but such fort of food
As hunger mud force them to eat.
High food and rich sauces their health would impair,
And, pamper'd, their humbleness cease;
Then, what tender-judging and fatherly care
To prompt them to health, labour, peace?
A partridge, a hare, or a Parliament fowl.
Their juices and minds might inflame;
Sufficient that left is the bat and the owl,
For peasants the natural game.
A carp, tench, or pike, or any good fifh.
For a rich man is delicate meat;
But tadpole, or frog, is a nourishing difli,
And as good a's a poor man Ihould cat.
At home, ifmifpended in fifhing or sport,
His lime would but ruin afford;
How prudently plan'd, by the wisdom of Court,
To fend him a fithing abroad !
Or felling of timber; —of what fort, or where,
No matter.-—The plan is so laid;
That none can dispute of a wonderful care
For home and American trade !
Left, wifely preventive, of riot and law,
Licentiousness might be too raffi in,
Our Rulers forbid us a flick, or a straw,
In dread they miy meet with a thrashing.
Yet, no scheme so perfect but may be amended.
—Disarm'd or of clog, gun, or Hick;
Bedridden, be-ftarv'd, and of all undefended,
We still have indulgence to kick.
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Mr. Printer,
Please so give the following a place in your entertain-
Ledger, and oblige A Cuftomcr.
Reflections on LIFE.
The silent Virtues of a good Man in Solitude are
more amiable than all the-noifo Honours of active
life. Pope.
lIFE is compared, by St. James, to a vapour,
jthat appeareth for a little time, and then va
niffieth away.
Is there any thing in nature so short and limited
as human life, even in its most extended period?
Does it not seem to you, my friend, fays Pliny,
but yederday that Nero was upon the throne? And
vet not one of all those who were Consuls in his
reign now remains ! But why Ihould I wonder at an
event so common? Lucius Pifo used to fay, he did
not fee one person in the Senate, who fat in that
house when he was Couful.
When Xerxes wept at the fight of his fleet and
army, which he reviewed on the Ihore of the Helle
spont, and the adjacent coast, Artabanus exprefting
his wonder, the King spoke thus to him: When I
considered the fliortnefs of human life, I could net
retrain the effects of my companion; for, of all
these numbers of men, not one Ihall survive a hun-
dred years. But, replied Artabanus, are we not
exposed, during our lives, to other things much
more to be lamented? Is any man so happy, either
among those, or other men, who even in this ihort
course of life, would not often rather chufe to die
than to live? The frequent calamities and diseases
incident to all, so disturb the best of our days, that
life, though really short, feems,of a tedious length;
and dcatli remains the only definable refuge of un
happy mortals But the Gods, from a motive of en
vy, have infufed a certain sweetness into life, in or
der to delude mankind.
When Darius had appointed Xerxes his successor,
and was fully determined to pursue both his intend
ed enterprises against Greece and Egypt, he died
and had not the fatisfa&ion of executing his designs
against either.'
Among the Thracians, when a child is born, his
relations fit round him lamenting the state into
which he is entered, and the many evils he is to
fuffer in the course of his life; on which occasion
they enumerate all the mifehiefs incident to man
kind.—They inter the dead with equal rejoicings
and declamations on the miseries he hath exchanged
for a state of felicity.
One of the Kings of Egypt being acquainted by
the oracle that he Ihould die in fix years, ordered
a great number of lamps to be made and lighted
every night, that he might revel the whole time in
pleasure; by which artifice he intended to convict
the oracle of falfhood, and 'to live twelve years, in-
Read of fix. He likewise complained that his father
and uncle, who had shut up the temples, despised
the gods, and destroyed a vast number ofmen. lived
long; and that he, notwithstanding his piety, mud
die toon.
Buruet, in his Theory of the Earth, speaks thus
of life: what is life but a circulation of little mean
actions? We lie down and life again, dress and un
dress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and
are weary; and then we lie down again, and the
circle returns. We spend the day in trifles, and,
when night comes on we throw ourselves on the bed
offolly, among dreams, broken thoughts, and wild
imaginations. Are not the capacities of man higher
than these? And ought not his ambition and ex
pectations to be greater? Let us be adventurers for
another world ? It is at least a fair and noble chance,
and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts, or
our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are
Rill no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals ;
and, if we succeed in our expectations, we are eter
nally happy. Oh! how glorious is the old-age of
that great man, who has spent his time in fucli
contemplations as. has made his being, what only
it ihould be, an education for heaven. The con
feioufnefs of fame, the contemplation of another
life, the refpeCt and commerce of honed men, are
pleafuers for which our capacitities are inlarged
by years. To be saluted with refpeCf attended
with chearfulnefs and consulted with deference, are
the pleasures which never fail to accompany a vir
tuous old age. Youth is the fever of life, and its
plealures are like the dreams and rumblings of a
man in that distemper. How fwect and how plea
font is the memory ofa well ipent youtli ! The lat
ter half of our lives is spent in getting rid of those
prejudices, Which we have contracted in the former
part of it, A manis the only creature born crying,
so he lives complaining, and Jies disappointed.
Epictetus fays of life, that we are all acting a play,
and it is no diltinClion in itfelf to be high or low,
but to become the parts we are to perform. Plato
fays, that a man is placed in his Ration of life, as
a soldier on his post. from whence he mutt not
move, unless called offby his Commander. There
are some occafibns in life, wherein regard-to a man's
felf is the most pitiful and contemptible of all pallia
ons. The firft years of a man's life Ihould be pro
perly and carefully employed, since they lay the
foundation of the merit and happiness of the red.
There are but two seasons of life, in which truth
distinguishes itfelf for, our advantage; in youth, lor
our instruction, and, in our advanced years to
comfort us. Our lives are spent in erring and cor
recting, losing and recovering, hoping and fearing,
rejoicing and grieving. Life is a fatal debt, which
our fathers have contracted, and we are bound to
pay. Life is an equal, irregular, and multiform
motion. A life, without the rules of morality, is
but a series of transitory pleasures; but a virtuous
he, is a series of reasonable and uniform enjoy
ments. Shortness of life is the common complaint
of fools and philosophers, but it is with our lives,
as with cur estates, a good husband makes a little
go a great way. There is nothing that the gene
rality of people are so lavish of as their time; and
there is nothing that a man can be honehly covetous
of but that; Plutarch compares human life to a
game of chefs, a man, lays he, may desire to have
the highest cast; but he ought to make the belt of
the word. There is no such thing in life as a person
intirely good or bad.; virtue and vice are blended
and mixed together in a greater or lei's proportion
in every one; and, if you would search for some
particular good quality, or most eminent degree of
perfection, you will often find it in a mind where
it is darkened and eclipsed by a -hundred other
irregular passions; tor men are apt to be very in
confittent with themselves.
The following MILITARY WORKS, fae of
them very valuable, and seldom to be met with, may
be had at R. BELL's, next door to St. Paul's
church in Third Street.
LE Blond's Military Engineer, containing the
attack and defence of all kinds of fortified pla
ces, with numerous and excellent copperplates,
two vol.
Novelle Fortifications, par Coehorn.
Ozaham's Ancient and Modern Methods of For
tification, with Vauban's Manner of Fortifying.
Marlborough's Battles and Sieges, from 1708 to
Simes's Military Guide for officers, 2 vol.
New Sydem of Military Dilcipline, founded on
Principle, by a General Officer.
Stevenson's Military Inftrudions.
Hofte and Webster's Mechanics, Fortification, Ar
tillery, or Gunnery, adapted to the use of the
Gentlemen of the Army and Navy.
ARCHITECTURE HYDRAULIQUE.
DE la manicre de faire usage du cours des eaux
dans les operations de la Guerre des Sieges &
de Campaign. Comprenant l'art de faire usage des
eaux dans la Guerre offenfive & defenfive, accom
pagne d'un nombre d'exemples d'occafions memo
rabies ou I'on s'en est fervi avec fucces.
Par M. BELIDOR, Colonel d'lnfanterie, Chevalier
de I'Ordre Militaire de Saint Louis, &c.
Several Sums of Money,
To be Lent, at [ntereft, on good Security,
By JAMES. HUMPHREYS,
Notary Public and Conveyancer;
In Front-street, Corner of Black-horse Alley.
UGARS in barrels, Melaffes, French Rum,
Coffee in bags and hogsheads, TO BE SOLD
on boa d the Schooner Mary, Capt. Cubulas,
lying in Mr. Chevalier's Dock, near the Old Ferry,
fuflprinted, and now felling ly^
Robert be 11,
Next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-street,
(Price Two Shillings.)
THE true INTEREST of BRITAIN,
set forth in regard to the Colonies; apd the
only means of living in peace and harmony with
them; including five different plans for effecting
this desirable event.
By Jos. Tucker, D. D. Dean of Gloucester,
Author of the Essay on the Advantages and Dis
advantages which refpedively attend France and
Great-Britain, with regard to Trade.
To which is added, by the Printer, a few more
Words on the Freedom of the Press in America.
N. B. At said BELL's may be had DoCtor Jones
on Wounds and Fradures, &c. &c.
HAMILTON and SON,
Tobacconists.
HAVE moved from the corner of Spruce and
Water-streets, to the house belonging to,
and lately occupied by Mr. John Wallace, in Se
cond-hreet, fix doors below Market street, where
they continue to carry on their. Scotch fauff and
tobacco Manufactory in all the several branches
as usual; they have laid in a large flock of the
very bell Virginia leaf tobacco, and are confident
of giving the utmost fatisfadion to their former
customers and the publick. Orders will be punctu
ally anfwer'd with'all possible difyatch; they give
cash for good empty Inuff bottles
THOMAS LEIPER,
TOBACCONIST,
TAKES this opportunity of informing the
public in general, and his friends in parti
cular, that the partnership of Hamilton and Lei
per is dissolved, and that he (in the house occupied
by the company, the corner of Spruce and Water
streets, below the Drawbridge, Philadelphia) ma
nufactures in the best manner Snuff and Tobacco of
the firft quality, equal, it not superior, to any here
tofore imported irom Europe, which he will be
enabled to ditpofe ot on as reasonable terms as any
Manufacturer in America, and execute all orders on
the Ihorteh notice; as the works he has lately form
ed are by far the most complete, not only for expe
diting the business of manufacturing Snuff and
Tobacco, but allo doing it in the greatest perfection
of any works ever yet erected on the continent.
N. B, Two Tobacco Spinners will meet with
encouragement by applying as above.
ISAAC HAZLEHURST
Has for Sale, at his Store in Water-street, the fifth
door above Market-street:
COFFEE of the best quality, Mufcovado Su
gars in hogsheads, tierces and barrels, Molas
ses, Cinnamon, Powder Blue, and a few hogsheads
of exceeding good Jamaica Spirit, five years old.
SIX POUNDS Reward.
Philadelphia June 3, 1776.
RANAWAY from the Subferiber in Market
ftreet, two Dutch servant men; The one named
dLZ<l< E R OTTO, about 20 years of age,
of a fan dy complexion and flsort hair, is 5 feet 3or 4..
Inches high, talks broken Englifo ; had on a felt hat
cut in the fafoion, whitifo double breafied jacket, dril
ling breeches, worfed flockings new fled fooes and
small brass buckles. The other named HENRT
LOES, iSyears of age, about 5 feet 8 Inches high,
dark curled hair, much pock-marked, and thick lips;
had on a felt hat cut in the fafoion, a blue broad
cloth jacket, drib ing breeches, and woollen flockings.
Whoever takes up the said Servants and jecures them
so that the Sulfcriber may get them again, fball re
ceive the above Reward or Th REE POU A DS
for each, and reajonable Charges, if brought home D
said by me, A DAM ECKART, J
TO BE SOL D,
ALOT of GROUND, adjoining the town
of Manheim, in the county ot Lancafter^
containing two acres and one hundred and four
perches, being that out-lot, which in the plan of
the said town, is marked and called Number ten.
Allo, one other LOT, in or near the laid
town of Manheim, containing ten acres and forty
four perches, adjoining the lots ot Frederick Leifer,
Nicholas Candour, and others, being that part ot a
trad of leven hundred acres of land divided into
lots, which in the plan of the said division is marked
and called Number thirty. The title and terms
may be known by applying to
3 m. MIERS FISH 'E R
JONAS PHILLIPS has for Tale fuperfine French
INDIGO, one hundred and eighty reams of
the best Propatria writing paper, ofnabrugs and
ticklinburgs, checks and Holland stripes, needles
and pins, skeleton wires, buckrams, umbrellas, and
sundry other dry goods. Likewise Madeira, Tent,
Mamfey. and Frontoniac WINES, &c.
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Genuine Keyfer's Pills,
To be h@d of tho Printer.