The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-03 00:00:00

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Teacher.—That will do; you may go home.
Children.—Thankee, sir.

A JAW-BREAKER.—There was at the wharf at Van
Buren. Arkansas, a few days ago. a steam-boat called Sog-
wa-ta-le-ki-vo-ram-sup-hum ted-on-chou, which. in the " ori-
ginal Choctaw," means " Conqueror of Steamboats." We
should think the ❑ame was alone sufficient protection against
snags and sawyers of the worst kind. Her owners needn't
go to the expense of insurance.---Picayune.

SHAKSPEARE.—My opinion of Shakspeare's fine passage,
" Pale Primroses,
That die unmarried, ere thay can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength."
is the following :—Sbakspeare's intimate knowledge of nature
was not one of detail; it was the general perception of
genius--Homer-like, to whom also authors writing on Ho-
meric natural history have ascribed knowledge, whilst he
merely possessed perception—intuition. Shakspeare from a
youth rambled much in the fields and forests, at the very
beginning of spring, when 0;d English frosts had ceased to
harden the covers of the earth. Certainly, the primrose
' ttracted his notice, as one. of the first harbingers of
It is certain that the first blooms are always pale, or
stly so. Shakspeare, lam sure, did not examine whether
such bear seed or not ; the endeavour would have been too
detailed, the very idea unpoeticai. The poet found them
pale in the outset of spring ; he saw the same faded, decayed,
afterwards; whilst others which blossomed at a more ad.

vanced period were not pale, the latter on account of having
beheld " Phoebus in his strength." Of him, Shakspeare
makes a heavenly bridegroom, reddening the cheeks of such
as beheld him : the others die " pale, unmarried." These,
1 am sure, were Shakspeare's ground for speaking thus—
provided genius be guided by grounds, and not by mere im-
pulse—inspiration. Shakspeare think of the seeding of plants !
No such thing. The genius of the poet and that of a Lin-
nteus are different indeed !—A Foreigner.

INTELLECTUAL ILLUSTRATIONS.—Love—Love is a mys-
tell, whose subtle essence neither philosopher nor metaphy-
sician has defined. Its disciples give implicit faith to what
their reason cannot fathom ; their utmost knowledge thereof
being to feel they know not what they feel. Waste—Waste
of wealth is sometimes retrieved ; waste of health, seldom ;
and waste of time, never. Indulgence—The erring are oft.
times more easily reclaimed by giving them credit for vir-
tues than by exposing their vices. Charity—There are two
kinds of charity,—the charity of action and the charity of
opinion : the former may exist without the latter,- but the
latter cant only want the means to exercise both. Lan-
guaae—Language may he a faithful interpreter of our feel-
ings when they do not rise or sink to excess; but in the ex-
extremes of joy or sorrow the heart rejects the aid of words,
and sees in them only inexpressive sounds. Exaggeration—
While we look at the good fortune of others through the
medium of a magnifying power, we view our own misfor-
tunes through a still stronger focus. Good Nature—With
the possession of every good quality, an excess of good na-
ture, while it may appear the most estimable of all, will often
render the whole nugatory. Despair—Despair is the shroud
of hope. When hope dies, all is desolation—the mind is a
sepulchre, the heart is bankrupt, the world a desert waste!
Social Offences—There are two offences against society ; the
one to have too little wealth, and the other to have too much
fame. Youth ana. Age—Youth is the season fur silence and
observation ; while it is for old age to be communicative. In
youth, the eyes and ears are of acute perception ; but in after
years, when the eyes grow dim and the ears become deaf,
the tongue should be employed to convey to others the ac-
cumulated knowledge of life. Discontent—However para-
doxical it may appear, we arc more indebted to a man's dis-
content than to his nobler qualities for the comforts we
enjoy ; since, had he remained content, society would have
made little advance. Ancestry—An empty coxcomb boast-
ing of a renowned ancestry is no better than a potato-
blossom—all that is good pertaining to him being under
ground. Imagination—lmagination is the power of painting
with the mind ; the colouring of both is generally too gaudy
for the simple truth of nature. Sympathy—lt is only from
those who have themselves suffered that we may expect sym-
pathy or consolation in oar distress. A heart that has bled
for its own can seldom be hardened to another's woe. De-
lay—He who defers congratulation or condolence is in
danger of misplacing them. Retrospection—When the veil
of death has been drawn between us arid the objects of our
regard, how quicksighted do we become to their merits,
and how bitterly do we then remember words or looks
of unkindness which may have escaped us in our intercourse
with them. How careful should such thoughts render us in
the fulfilment of those offices of affection which it may yet be
in our power to perform ; fur who can tell how soon the mo-
ment may arrive when repentance cannot be followed by re-
paration. Home—Keep your store of snailea and your
kindest feelings for home ; give to the world only those
which are to spare.—lmmortality—Man's constant hanker-
ing after objects unattainable in this world is alone sufficient
evidence that he is destined for a future state.—Calabrella's
Prison of Thought.