Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-27
FROM THE PORT FOLIO.
THE Lar PREACHER.

The heart OF the foolish is LID cart sh.cI,n
IF this be the fact, and the wise man accurate
in his simitade, VIVA. n,yrtads OF qvkteL. roll in
this, our rslhxg world!
AS it is the privilege of preachers to paraphras.
their text, aud eatoft meanings that will slide
easily into the train oil their own sentiments
shall choose to understand the word fosii.b, as
not only intending to indicate qUea&, but gidy,
and Hastabk men. This definition being grant.
cd, and it is not SO far fetched as many, which
my fellow labourers, John Favel and Mathew
Heny have framed, what greater sGigity can
be found between two things, apparently unlike,
than hyPocondriac writer, and cart wheel
Such Splenetic author as the Lay Preacher, fos
instance, restless, and whose labours are in re.
gular rotation, moves through the Y3ts Of life,
crea king and complaining of o6strxetiort in the
way, and, VIXEN the daily druggery is done, is
left, by the inattentioa OF mankind, withouta
shelter, sunk into slosg6.
A very ancient moalst, WHO published his
wisdom in the reign Of queen Elizabeth, INTRO
duces, somewhere IN bis works, an aged sire,
complaining OF the clandcstine nuptials of his
daughter. AS the height OF las misfortune, the
disappointed parent laments that bis darling should
espouse hckie foreigner, and it is expressed in
the quaint style of rhat age, Tye her fortunes
to an extravagant and avbeehng stranger A 70.
mantle adventure, continually shifting his situa.
ton, exposed to the temptations and vices of Va.
rious regions, and like the dove of Noah, ptrp,
tually seeking and never finding /ettltm,ut,
must be grossly deficient in that uniformity Of
character, necessary to the happiness of marriage
Be on your guard, therefore, ye parents, when
your daughters are solici,ed to wedoek, by thos:
whe are commonly called azfeqdy men, least
happy ye find them qvbffliag. The beat of
5asb4rI, that IS like cart qVbesl, will, in some
of its III accountable and Wild rotations, be from
ed away form its duty or affections 20 the
qOifs.
Advice to women, must be supposed most dis"
interesting in the Lay Preacher. The reasons
are obvious he has, in former sermon, hInted
that he was fill Of years, and, moreover, from
the gravity and restraint IF his profession, cannon
approach even the female chcek,but with the
Saiate Of a SAM, or the kGi Of Charity. he,
therefore, entrears the daughters Of the land,
not TO confound prudery with virtne, not TO toi::
low with too strict observance, the change OF
fashion, nor 10 be too ambitious OF the artlAcc
Of coquetrv, for all these things asslmlatc wO"
man to wheel whirllng at prodiglouS rate.
There is more hope of fool than OF that var
Gus creatase, commonly called universal genus
Eager for novelty, aid stranger to perseverance,
he goes on from one projea TO anoshef' RON AZ
to art, and from science so acience, rouno Ailt
round like cart wheel. In he younger Paf' y
my life knew man of the above description !
think his name was Schemer. II he haPPensu "
hear ayeteran colonel talk Of the siege OF L'u'''
boarg, he would buy military books, and oIe1"
O. drums and rrumpets. In the midst OF 'nes
wariike preparations, he received letter from VI
brother, lawyer, informing that he had gaia'|
his great land cause, at the last superior oou'.'
Schener sold his cartouch box, and read law iol
two days. faded with The obscuHty OF '".'
study, his restless mind demanded something new
and he listened with delight to the tale OF an haS'
Indian captain, who painted the profits OF ta'Eo'
ship, and the brlliancy of Bafbarlc pear a'I
gold.' In short, to recount all his iaoors' WOW
tire even the long winded Jeremy Taylor lI
spent bis life in ceaseess changes; he had az ~.
ferent times horses saddled for journies to eVSI
part Of the continent, and the departure OF many
an oat4vaya Goaxd vessel was delayed by tins p'O'
je6tng passenger. lived with him m0n r,
and witnessed the variety of his purshts. hi
might be found in she morning, busy 80 ias'A'