Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-22
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FRIDAy, JuLg II.

ian as iudgmeDr, and more taith rnan
s.r;.v. thar man is placed bssr 6sf2a0 IN
.,are of warfare, This opinion, howe
'.r contradictory to the notions il IS OR
%rv 10 entertain Of the Almighty, IS yet
.laus.ble, and receives some encourage
lent from the conduit of human beings
s. .,wards each other; from their pursuits,
,Ssr pleasures and their designs. we
& never will permit ourselves, however to
s. believe that those appearances arise from
,be prelestinating viii Of our all merclful
81 Greater, or from asy inherent malignlty
3 n man. We consider it as sometimes
s. the fruit of accident, sometimes the ply
a s;eal result of unforeseen circumstances,
sometimes of the natural activity of the
n human mind, which will not suffer itself
n 20 be long at rest, bur must be in motion,
q ike old seamen, who are necessarily walk
n ing the deck in short trips, whether IN
4 chamber, church, high road, or a
street; or, lastly, the effect of pleasan-
try. We all love fun, more or less and
if we have no other resource Will have
recourse to mischief rather than want mer
rment. The worst Of us, however, I've
hope there are very few exceptions) lay
aside our sport, when 1t trenches upon
serious evil.
But that there is in the human hear,
spirit OF emulation, which often degene-
rates into sordid sel6shness, and that again
into averssness to our neighbours good
may be little suspected. Almost The
FIRST propensity children display is desire
TO engross TO themselves every thing they
see. AS their limbs grow vigorous, and
their nails acquire protrusion, sharpness
and strength, they lose no time IN max
ing experiments upon the faces of their
little fellows; and before they can well
speak, they disclose their talents as bea-
rea-6orn lawyers and soldiers; lawyers
instinctiyeiy skilled in the doctrine of tie.
nures and the rights of possession, and
soldiers naturally versed In letting blood
10 til the pocket.
Scarcely has the being become an 4.
daps in these useful arts and endow-
ments, when a further advance into man
hood opens to his ambitious mind new
objects, which he mast attain, or sink
below his wishes. Athletic sports enga e
him 10 excel all his fellows in the use
ful humane and ornamental accomplish
msnrs OF wrestling, boxing, sngie lex,
quarter st fl, and galloplng horse helter
skelger, after nothing, now FIJI his thoughts
BY day and his dreams by night" En-.
forp5'd and dsmiaatzred rp..b tie brace
beGst"--he goes partner in trade with his
horse their joint stock the animals
fcetness, and his own folly; and after a
few years OF this hopeless commerce, III
which tie Firm undergoes some checks
from falls, qultter bones, breaking downs,
spavins, broken arms and legs, and its
Gods mercy and a thousand plties if not
broken neeks too; the partnership dis
solves by the death OF the horse, whose
caIcase goes to the crows, while the whole
proht, tame, and all pass over 20 the sur.
wing partner.
Mean time my gentlemen is nothing the
slack IN his other avocations innumerable
are the cuts on the head, and the kicks on
shins, innEmerable are the thumps IN the
eye, the pegs in the bread basket, and the
d gs and rattles on the ribs which he has
sustained his trophies appear perhaps in
the lack or the squirting Of an eye, the
undue curvature or perhaps the total pros
tratlon of has nose, and the wheeling ard
painting OF the lungs under broken ribs.
The glories are SO much profit in pocket,
Tor the pain IS completely assuaged by
the happy consciousness and cbantabls
recollection that he has conferred equal
misery on many of his did dear friends
and companions.
He chen aspires to the duelist- and
rothnG bur the blood, the life of the ad.