Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-10-03

NhPOiS
To future good, our paa and ,pre(ent
woes. So
With me, the rocks of Scylla you have
try'd;
Th' inhuman Cyclops, and his den
defy'd.
What greater Ills hereafter can you bear
Refume your courage, and dilmils your
care.
An hour will come, with pleafure to relate
Your forrows pait as benefits OF fate.''
DRYDEN.
EVERY days experience moa clearly
informs us, that the enjoyments of the
preient life are fleeing and precarious.--
Objects the moit pleaGng in nature are de-
iee,ivc, and dslight but momentary fpace.
The blooming rofe, unconnetfed with the
prickly thorn, would be fight unparal-
lelled. Mingled is every cup ofpleafure
with iome bitter dreg.
The melodious trllls os the feathered
fongRer, the puring falls ofthc mcander-
ing ttream, nay. the ioothing itreams OF
MADAM, oftentimes impress the mind with
melancholy feniations. Friends, in whom
thoie virtues center that render them en-
dearing 60 fociety, we are often called to
part with,
Often are the tender threads on which their
Precious lives fafpehded hang, cut by the
Cruel hand OF death---pale as the fnowy
Top Of Ida's r.ount, and withcr'd as
A tender plant, nipt by iome untime!y
Frof, and fcorch'd by a fummer's fnn---
Cold as a fhapelefs lump ofc!ay, with blood
Thick clotted in their veins, hideous.
Spectacle they lie.--
Although we are not yet FAR advanced
beyond the :hrefhold of. life, yet we have
ienhbly experienced the deluGons of a
hrAgGfory 4Uovld. Every fubjea which tie
eye beholds, and indie, ID every particle of
matter, is leion for our Improvement.
There is NOT an object in nature, nor the
minated atom Of duff, that is not continu-
ally changing fromone fate to another.
But lowiy indeed mutt that Gtuation be,
which affords not a iingly ray of comfort;
Tor the thorns of life are intcrmingled
With fragrant .foqve,s. The children of
aiHletlon ought not to defpair, and pre-
lume, that their i'll torture in this world
is infupportable. Should the good things
ct this life be denied them, fhouId iick
beds and confinement, be their lot, and
woes on woes in quick flccetlion follow
alter; yet for them fweet hope adminif.
rers relief them there is balm O.
Gilead.
To pats life Of tranqu!lity--to enjoy
he SWEET and not the BITTER, much de
ends on the cultivation of the natural in
elect. This is fentiment 70 true, that
IT ought early TO be inculcated, and i'm
oreled on the minds of youth, that they
may be guarded from wayward paths of
The fooliih and inconGdera,e, and not be
led away by every ingnusfatuus.
"A mind, when cul,iva ed by a ikil.
full hard, when purified of thofe baneful
weeds, which spontaneously grow and
check the rife of virtue, is pearl of great
worth, treafure that cannot be corrupt
nor bribed, by the intrigues of artful
and infinuating men.
1t is an axiom worthy of all accepta-
ton, that thoie nations which are mott re-
nned In the liberal arts and licences, are
the mott Aouriihing and happy. {" Sci
ence is that acquiftion, which irradiates
Tie mind" and calls into vibration thofe
'ner feelings,~ which render fociety engag-
.ng.
BrAfH fer7ae btafa terra, NH /tientia
regnaf.
Since the cultivation Of the natural in.
tellect IS 70 highly confequential, an op-
portunity Tor the expanfon of the mind is
more to be valued than Peruvian ore, or
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