Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-16
For the Alexand,ia advertiser.

be compared 70 the foul-detroying mil
chiefs which refult from mifcalculating our
time in this world, and which produces
that latitude and inanity, with regard TO
tu,uriyy, which are but 100 apparent a.
monga the far greater part of mankind.
Pscuniary considerations arc as light as
air, when fet in competition with the con-
Germs of eternity.
/" Let time appear a momext, as III,
6 Aad let ettyniy's fill or6 at once,
7ara on my lo3l, and .frike il int
I" beav'n-
Hoau MN Ipirit, late s/eapd frome
S eanb,
I" The t,utb Of things nesu- 6la&iag IN its
" ere,
Look back, aaonj@'d on The xuays Of
So men,
!" Wbgtelives' 4vboltd,jti ist0 Jforget i6si,
g gravss Z"
In the feeting things of time less to
one proves gam to another. Thus while
the merchant, by the qnarrels Of the old
world, and the EngIiih and French ihoot-
ing each other, is encreaiing his wealth
the banker, who difcoupts 100, 900 deils.
per week, at per cent. of the merchants
paper by taking the tooth part of the
fom tor 60 days diicount, gains by mis-
calculation, upwards of 1000 dolls. per
snnum, to which the laws Of his country
give hin NJ tight: and The lucky game
Ter pockets his unfortunate opponents mo,
ney without rsmoris, with this favo for
his confidence, tha: the fame would be
done to him, it placed by chance in the
power of his adyerfary.
have been lea, into the preceding
and fuhfequent reflections from reading D.
Moi.fe and Prices treaties on chances
and lii. annul,iese-Pretty books! the
rigid Chriitian viii cxclaim, for Sunday
evenings exc5ciie but from theie various
facts appear which ought to fimulate US
TO juA fenfe Of our duty and a proper
application of our time. Is
In the city of London one half, and in
the large towns. of America one third Of
the children die under three years of age,
and in iome places larger proportion.
According to Kerieboom's Table Of Oh
iervations, but fourteenth part OF all thar
are born live to So.
In the large towns of Europe, il has
been pretty accurately afcertained, that
about a5th part Of all the inhabitants
above / s die every year.
The probability that perfon aged IS
fhall attain TO So isas II to 2. The pro,
liability perlon Of this age lhall attain to
50, OF live IS years, is nearly an even
chance.
Out Of 200 perfors, all 40 years OF age
about 5 may be expected to die in year.
A marriage between two pertons, both
IS, will nor probabJ laR longer than y
years nor marriage between two per
ions, both 80, longer than IS yeass-lcch
marriages it is true may laf bossi5J 80
or 90 years; but this Circumstance is more
than balanced by the fact that no less pos
si5ls, they may not Taft 0ae year.
The odds that the woman lhall furviye
in marriage and not the man, is not leis
than 3 to 2.
The age Of IS may be confdered as
the u,mo0 probable extent Of human life !:
But the days of iuch men, fays Solomon,
are full of trouble.
Say ye who know the ills which wait,
Attendant on this heeting state,
When DER the teeming dewy need
The nibbing cattle, we'll. pleased, feed,
When od'rous how'rs their fragrance fling,
When pinion'd tribes enrap,ured sing,
When silky soft the zyphers blow,
Can man, poor man feel poigRant woe
Yes,Struly, a, this very hour,
Beneath diseases baneful pow'r
undeceiv'd by pleasures bait,
Thousands mourn their hapless state.
But know this pious truth, 0 man!