Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-07

lier, Addition, Arbulhnot, Locke, Swift,
and I do not know how many n1ore-ail
of mhom, as literary authorities particu-
larry before our Great man. How much
prettier too, doe. the Lottery found as
examinations, than the liquid !, as in the
fond diminutive-Bill, Billy-Will, Will
ly-Nal, Nilly. We feriouily recon.
mend it to all men, particularly archi.
tetts, TO think of this, and infead Of
laying the Gil OF the door, to uie 10 compli-
tnent to our Great Man, the word tilIy.
Another word which that old ignora-
mus has excluded from the pale of the
Englial language i. grade word as Don
Quixotte fays ofRoGnante, grand lono-
rous, and expreilive. We wonder that it
never occurred TO the writers Of England
to make ule Of il. 1t is much fhorter
and better than fep or degree; befdes
the merit ofmaking the writer ieen TO un
derfand latin. Curious as it may leem'
i, is never made ufc Of in that ignorant,
lavilh hole, Europe, and its aavih fob
mitters to grammar and dictionary rules,
but in mock bombaa, or mock tragedy,
or ridicu!e Of pedantry, as in the follow
ing tory told Of a fluffy, tobacco fmck-
ing pedant, fellow ct a college, who
being requeRed by man that met MIN IN
j quate of the aforefaid coil-se, to direct
him to certain genilealan's room, an
fwered thus
!" Defcribe diagonal to this parallsIo-
i" gram, afccnd the prime hgneal grades,
/" and there.you will find him pesipatiz-
e ing in his cubicnlum, or theorounting
/" in his fepeesa." Or in plain Eng
lib f: Crofs The lquare, go Up the fsa
:" wooden iteps, and you will End him
!" either walking in his chamber or lock-
" ing OUT OF his window On this au-
shortly the only one We believe in ex.
fence, we joins our voice with that Of
Cur highly refpeaed authority in the
chair, to recommend it 10 all dictionary
makers, photographers, politicians, bar
octSJ anu pHitolopnetS.
But Of all the performances which have
itherto put our little wits to The fsrength,
hat by which we have been mott com
pletely bsfled is the following, which for
ientiments, and language iuited to the
Continents, lay claim TO prssminent fupe-
riority. We confefs We do not under
Rand If bot as Boniface, though be did
cot unaerifand latin, was fure thar father
Forgard fpoke it we'll, becaufc he ipoke
i, e fat, e wemsy FAY we are fute the
writings we slludc to mutt be fire not,
becaute The words are 70 unintelligible,
aud the rules Of grammar are with digni-
fed fcorn rejected, but becauie it has been
copied with the advantage Of every typo
graphical ornament which newspapers af
ford, from nothern paper into morning
paper. For the benefit Of our readers We
5eg leave to offer them TWO or three ex-
tracts from il.
!" When tie h!JGng makes of defpo-
tim 0oSs forth their poifon we ought
" TO Go out utmoft to counteratt its bare-
ful effects, not by unfair means but
by the mcf honorable"
What wonderful deal Of information is
conveyed in this pithy fen:ence F:rt il
tells rs that there is a def potifm in Ame-
RIGA ? fecondly, thar that deipotifm his
fnakes; thirdly that thofe fnakes (difsr.
ent ofcourfe from all other lnakes) aetu-
ally hiis. And next it gives Us the CON-
Portable information that thofe lnskes are
70 much gentler than all others that inaead
Of biting, and flirting their potion thro'
perforated tooth, they only ooxe it out
that is TO FAY let it run out gently. And
then comes promife, fill more new to
Us ard fill more in, redible, viz. that fhe
fleets ofths potion are TO be counteratf-
ed by honorable means. A liberal way
no doubt Of dealing with fnakes-much
more liberal indeed than their way of
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