Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-20

have been uftd TO the daily tr,ai. ,na
fcrambIirg purfuits Of The world. tn.
mode Ct education, proper fer cur youth
THE families Of The very rich excepted
is fuch as will embrace objects ofiol;d n;
llty, rather than tho(e of the thowy and
hnical kind. To flock the country with
a numerous race Of Gentleman ami Lod:>,
gcnctcely educated inordinately fond Ct
fashionable exrence, but without the means
Of Importing it; too prold to Iabour.
and TOO poor to be idle would be ex,
tremely fatal 10 lis inrereG. 1t is il.
fnitely better TO rear up plain, fenahle,
we'll moralied men and women, frauehr
with the maxin,s of prudence who will
couform themielves to their circumstances,
and neither eat the bread of idenels, ma,
drink the cup of vanHy; who will be
qualified to act their parts uiefnlly in foci.
cry, and to become prudent, indufrious
huibands, and difcreet and diligens wives;
Tbas, TO ufe the expeditions Of facred wri
ter, the fons of our land would BE- as
plants grown up in their youth: It's
daughters would be as corner Rones, 20.
liihed after the iimilitude of a palace
And, 10 his words, it may be add
ed, " Happy is that people, that is in
iuch cafe"
1t would be ealy TO draw examples from
the famous republics of ancient Greece &
Rome but there IS an example TO our pur-
pole, in modern republic. The people
of the United Netherlands, after they had
fhook off the Spanifh yoke and become an
independent republic, ditinguihed them
felves, for long time, by their general
indufry and plain frugal manners. They
publilhed idleneis, as a crime againG the
fate. They eRimated every thing ac-
cording TO It's utility. They honored la.
Dor and encouraged uleful arts. They
even RATED a monument to the memory
CT the NAN who taught them how to cure
their behring's. Every fpecies of extIava-
gance and prodigality met with their
marked contempt. With them it was a
ttanding rule, that every family (cxtraor-
dinaries exeepted) ibould live within ito
income and the rule was never violated,
but at the expence Of incuring public dill
grace. Thus, by the united force of ex-
ample and education, they continued in
their eeady induarious habits and frugal
manners, from age to age, during the lapf
of nearly two centuries and ridng from
fmall beginnings and gradually vanquifh-
ing natural obfacles, that were feemingly
unlnrmountable, they attained to an Alto
mining pitch of opulence and power. ina
manner, banifhed poverty fiom their realms
while among their fnical neigh5ors, the
French, they were no lefs than feven mil
lions, who were diarefingly poor. Nor
was il till after the D1tch had introduced
the luxurious manners Of their neighbours
that they lols their independent ipirlt and
national character & became enervated and
fervile and were finally made to revolve,
as an insignificant lattellite, around la'
perior orb. SENEA.
II oTE.
II ryas the intention ofctbe rvriter Of The
joregoiag 11ays 10 baOe o6fsysa ('me fS''8
on the R34y IF The dead languages; on
I" Science falily 70 called" or byel 1ffa'
Mtipe paris efne,atpre, 4ubifb are fofaly
iu0ttlicabk 10 the affairs ef lunar Vs;
and Gu The expedienee ofa <fsentitf fae,
Of Botany, Mmeralogy AgrtAltar'' mr.
hcultare, mechanical priaei4lt', ana
4vbateVer tends TO relieve the la6oafi ana
multiply The eomtorfs Of Man. But 64V'fg
ALREADY extended his e0ys TO an nHfxpf4fa
pyokixity, 7ubieb rafting bat the im1''faafe
or The luyea can jsfyJ; be 90 .D
tbsk topics for THE pre/ent; ana 10'4 . n4.
clude, in the next number, qritb jew
Rriaxrss on female education.
ROSTON. November 9.