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In every thing

Whether for woe r

A natio
Or pudding ma

Does cook with cook in contest vie
To mince the tender veal—

Do oran
Yon s'

'serve the Peel,

)antly demand
z. and feel
eart and hand—
why. Peel!

Perhaps, indeed. a man of law,
_ He would not hasty deal,

But enter on a wordy war.
And then he will ap-peal

Peel to plum-pudding. adds a zest,
And when the church bells steal,
On you er landscape, why I'm blest,
If still it is not Peal,

Saint Stephen's whipsters shrink and shake,
He does such lashes deal,
And many a fall the heedless make
Who tread on Orange Peel.

Debates dark clouds proclaim him nigh,
Young England gives a squeal,
For the lightning flashes in his eye,
And the thunder roars its Peal.

than is generally conceived
" But, to render bodily exercise productive of the
greatest benefit, another element is necessary, there
must be a sufficient motive for it. A walk without an
object seldom tends to the refreshment of either mind
or body. It is true, in some cases, the benefit expected
to be derived from the walk may itself be a sufficient
stimulus to sustain the continuance of the effort without
Ragging ; still the agreeable conversation of a friend is
enough to double the benefits derived from the exercise,
by maintaining a pleasing excitation in the mind, and
thus administering to the instinctive desire for activity
before alluded to. Those pent up in close cities, and
engaged in sedentary pursuits, have a hidden treasure
in the kingdoms of nature of inestimable value to them,
that, like the treasure concealed in the vineyard left by
the old man in the fable to his sons, only requires to be
sought for in order to be enjoyed. A taste for natural
beauties is within the attainment of all; and the more
systematic study of natural objects will be found of the
easiest acquirement where the desire for it is once lighted
up in the mind. That such is the case is proved by the
fact, that many of the most extensive collections of na-
tural productions, such as birds, insects, plants, and
minerals, have been made by working men during their
hours of relaxation : and it is well known that it is
amongst this class that gardening is, in one sense, car-
ried to its highest perfection. There is a charm in the
contemplation of Nature of exquisite sweetness. The
skill, beauties, and adaptation everywhere displayed in
z an unpublished Manuscript, by a Physician of her productions, excite the keenest admiration ; and the
Liverpool.) habitual study of them imparts to the mind such sooth-
ing .ensations, such a peacefulness of thought and feel-
ing, such a harmony of soul, as is derived from no other
source. Indeed, viewing nature in this light, its capa-
bilities, and the boundless extent and variety of its
objects, which no mind even confined to a narrow sphere
of earth can ever exhaust in its own field alone, seem to
point it out as designed to be the grand corrective of the
errors and excesses of civilized life, as a shoreless sea of
XTRACPS FOR DIRECTIYG, delight, ever at hand, and ever suited for civilized man
AND CAUTIONING PEDESTRIANS ON to lave his weary powers in, and thus to be continually
SUNDRY MATTERS-SCRAPS FOR REFLECTION IN THE refreshed and reinvigorated
COUNTRY-POETICAL GLEANINGS AND SCENIC EF-

I his name, would you o'erthrow,

Tis but a—w

's common weal ?
word and a blow,

!e this be so, let's ever peal
^l3 high,

stop repeal,

11EDICUS

FROM OUR LAST.)

CHAPTER VI

SUPPLEMENTARY

0/.7TAINING, CHIEFLY,

ENCOURAGINC

It is one of M. Fellenberg's admirable principles,
that there is no health, no vigour of mind, no virtue,
gs from the vintages of I without bodily exertion' ; and his plans of instruction
Ls almost exclusively de- ' are founded upon this just axiom."
passages suited to the varied tastes
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
it different classes of readers—that is,

FECTS ALLUDED TO, &C

•ead at all by any

e leid off our chapter by

,n the advantages of exer'-

on to those already advanced, in order
late mind, derived from an invalided body,
• on the important subject of what
be encouraged to shake off dull
; especially if he should be
y to comfort (yet a direct
pursuit of comfort and plea-
Is that of an inactive body re-

nay, by definite idea

let him " up and be doing "
er to retrace his steps, a plan
at first, but full of good fruits
reward of, his perseverance.
,wn medical knowledge, but
I writers on the subject, that

lifficul

and not by medicine, (except under irnpe-
s,) lies the true though " unbeaten path"

s long, and full of sameness to the
yet if you have any time to pause
f only to find food for some pleasing
ht, and are at all disposed towards
ninute investigation of objects around you, as the
naturalist delights to do, carry a small magnifying lens
with you ; and thus observing the flower of a moss,
he interior of a seed, the rind of a fruit, the wing or

train of thong

will range .themselves in

:pondinito yourown slow

as well in the lands of
if you walk smartly, the
e prone to observation, and less
iieetior, Before starting, we would reeom-
..cl the reader —fm himself with such a lens for the
waistcoat pocket as the " Stanhope" which is one of the
best and readiest

oto ......_
nend the reader to

laving microscopic powers of a small
amount. Days may be spent even profitably this way
tutoring in the young especially their powers of accurate
observation and comparison, so essential in those students
preparing for the " learned professions," and the study

rtments,—in none so useful as in
,t you have, however, no turn this

for matters relative to
alth—it cannot long be

you, however young

arty. (

turn to what follows an atJ
nd then throw down a book

o more only when its instruc-

ave quotations are spent. At least you will have the
responsibility of knowing more than you did, if you were
knorant : thenceforward you cannot allow sloth to eat
. .
h your eyes couched, to mark the
rogressive mroaas of the monster !

up your vitals,l

Ilygient
irises f

The principal source of our wellbeing
n the circulation of our fluids, especially the
k brisk circulation animates the whole man;
phlegmatic is exhilarated, when anything sets
in commotion ; and when this takes place in
derate degree, the man is agitated even to de-

known. Ciitinued rest
length the blood feebly
the heart is not of itself

1. For this, muscular
But rest of body relaxes

the wt.

There is

,chine which a sedentary

Lebtlitate, and the nerves more

,irenerany speaking," says Ackermann," " a seden-
lry life is the source of all those diseases which physi-
Tin cachectic, the number of which is considers-
are jaundice, atrophy, worms, dropsy,
ese exercise is the Lest remedy. "It
.sell," says Tissot, " preserves the
,te, quickens the appetite, facili-
vigorates the spirits, and excites
ughout the whole nervous isys-
ilosophic Plato," (quoting his
,ices.) And Rousseau must

ianner, when he wrotE

ion is to contrive that

f the mind may always
"t— Treatise on Phy-
sical Education, by Louis Huguenin, Professor of Gym-
nastics. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1839.
Monsieur Huguenin's little book is well worthy of
ii, and people Would do well to follow
mdations contained therein practically.
hese " Hints" can, from personal expe-
) the mental and corporeal benefits to be
ymnastics. The vigour and
ire surprising and delightful.
to the weak and the strong :

rations to eact

e voluntary, and by sympathy,
r contiguity of relation, of the involuntary class of mus_
.led, is the better half of physic for
f ill health ; it is all but an unmixed
rood if common sense and discretion are only taken as

les, as they