Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-05

Who. who would live, my Narva, ju1 to breathe
This idle air, and indoiently run,
Day alter day, the till returning round
Ofifes mean Offices, and tickiy i Us?
But III the fersice of mankind TO be
y A guardian God beiow-ftill TO employ
The minds brave ardour in heroic aims,
Such as may RATE ~ DER the grcveiir% herd,
And make Us ihi,ie -o,evcr-- hat is life. 3
THOMPSON.
1T is an ohfs~vstion of Mr.. Addition,
that, I" there are none, who deierye fupe-
riority over Others in the eReem of man.
kind, who do not make it their endeayor
to be beneficial TO fociety; and who, up.
on all locations, which their circum
frances of life can adminiiter, do not
take certain unfeignsd pleafure in con-
ferring benefits, of one kind or an o.
ther.''
twas not my chance to be born on a
fpot of earth that was very much illumi-
ned with the rays of fcience; neither
were my parents very much handled and
careaed by Maaam Fortune; however it
has always been a determination of theirs
TO appropriate certain part of time for
the improvement ofry intelleets, together
with shofe OF my brothers and filters and
1t was ever refolution of my mother
never to interrupt child when reading
ufeful book, to attend to the .fecular con
Germs of life.
II is not IN my power to add greatly
to the fun of human felicity by way of
any Pecnniary confiderations in relieving
the wants of the faor and <5f,1Sd; yet /
+, fhail ways con.lder it duty, which 1
owe pyfelf and my fellow-creatures to
convert the bitter dregs Of pain to the
{weets of pleaf1re, and proffer the healing
potion, wherever it can be done without
: objectionable detriment to myfelf, or thofe
to wkom am more nearly connected by
the ties of confanguinity. And whene-
9 yer any fociery, or iet Of people, particu-
ilarly the afflicted and as1exeele/5 can be
relieved by any advice, or friendly cauti-
on, which cangive, ihallnever be with
held, but befowed with my mott cordial
regards.
My deGgn in Offering to the public the
few little edays towhich my Egn is afix-
ssf, proceeded from an intention of doing
good, lerving my generation with faith.
fulneis, and of itrewing the paths of life
with feau purple flowers. Much pro-
tundiry Of erud,sion, my readers cannot
expect will be difcovered in my lucubra-
tions or that the products of nv pen
will breathe with Carmen Seu/e in Di6a.
billie, with the beauties ola LAYpREacu
Err, or with the refined fentiments of a
venerable NEIcHBoR; yet they may be
afured that they flow from good heart
Ii is to be hoped, that offence never
will be taken by either fex, fhould ami
madvert, now and then, on the extrava-
gence OF the taife, or the follies to which
we are all prone. Whenever / fpeak of
the various for ms of commodes, fuckers,
ipatebings, baiaffngs, reLssatisn and EXPO
Jnr|, l will not, in future, pretend TO
dictate, but only propoie amendments
And | fatter myfsif thar am in 70 high
repuse among my fzmaAe friends and &C.
4nainfanee IN this part of the country,
fhould ] tell them wooden drefs was
warmer IN the winter ieafon than calico
or 1obife mg,2iu, they would believe me.
What If | ihould tell the young gentlemen
that ring on iome of their fingers did
not look 70 well as on lady'., and that
P1aaMgs III the himmer were no, 70 com
modioua as in the feafon when Boreas Rims
ger rte fields, a1dbeaps The EroqO? What
If | fay, that a gold necklace, that is
worn as medicine to prevent iwellinp,
will ioofe its efficacy, fhould it be worn
over large cravat! conclude his eGav
by returning tribute Of gratitude to nv
correspondents for their late epiRlcs, re-
quoting continuance Of their favors and
wiihing that we might all be g failbfai
IN err day," and rife hyperion to the gro
Yelling herd.
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