Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-08-10

Whole ricks of tsy and stack 81 c2fn
Were 1 wn the sdad-n to,rens borne,
Whtls things OF hetc egensous kind,
Together 4 AT ~ith tide AMI wiei,
The generous whcai :ntgot It's prize.
>Lod sa'd with LITTER s,de b. side,
Usi,;ng I'll 70 shsyv sh4l! a.&..y,
ASH a genetai tcasaH::y:
Aebalt Of oew dropt b2rsf's a4ee
III king vita appies u tEe thr4ng,
SAID 70 she p,ppin pet aad Pflnla
See brother, how ". ap2cs SWIM.
THE enaphat;cal lines psefxed to this
ESSAY axe the production of the pure. cieers-
~, and elegant muse of thai deilcate and
urban1 Daan Of ST. Patrick's, yclept joNA-
THAN SwIFr, and seem to me as intended
bv him to incite modest zV0rth to lay Its
claim boldly to that equality which ought
10 subsist between ali men, yea, between
all things; and as an authority to all asplr-
ing personages, no matter OF how low
degree, or how meagre pretenslons, rot to
be too timid or bashful, nor to suffer
themselves to be deferred by any consci~
business of infcriority which they may feel
greatest into the current Of fortune; and
az they trundle along with them cheek by
iowl, down the stream, TO make free, or,
as the saying is, hail Jtilozv z0eN net
with them, without dlf61ence or modes
ty, qualities which some call laudab!e, but
which everyone Of common discernment
must perceive are too great a check upon
the noble sspirings of those whom a wick
ed world would keep in low life, for no
other reason but because they happen not
to have too much sense, and have never
been at the trouble to acquire parcel Of
superAuous stuff of learning and know
ledge.
Had it pleased God to have spared the
life of the reverend and ingenious Dean
till this day, he would see enough Of that
litter and horse.dung ambition, and aspir-
ing to equality. Indeed it must give him
pleasure upon the principles contained in
the lines above quoted to perceive that the
good sense of the day has produced such
happy change in the condition OF human
creatures. We are all flesh and blood
alike, and ii would be most gross tyranny
to make one higher than another, because
forsooth he happens to have more of al
ideal thing called intellect, and to have
picked up parcel Of learning, or perhaps
because his father or grandfather hadlt be-
fore he was born, and made money by it.
should be glad to know on what grounds
such things are allowedto give any one pre-
tensions to superiority over others. Have
we not, on the contrary, the authority Of a
man named Dogberry, (who must certain
ly be great man since he is commemorate
ed by Shakespeare that learning, that is to
say, reading and writing, are but mere W.
nifty,
Deebersy.--Come hiite mater iea coal: God
hath belied you with good Lame; to be well
favored man is the gift Of fortune but to write
and read comes by nature.
I'd. E1afeSman.-Bosh Of which, Mater Con
Gables
Des5erry,-You have; Iknew 1t woud be
your anfwer. Well, for your favor, Sir, why
give God blanks, AMI make no bcse Of 1t; and
tor your writing and reading, let thar ap.esr
when there. no need Of iuch Vaaity.
On thi, authority, which is too respec.a-
bic TO be resistec it must be tax en- for grant
ed that learningis vanity, and therefore eau
not make man be better than his neigh
bour. Besides which, its coming by ma
ture shews that we have allan equal natural
claim on that account. 1t is not that this
man or that has ne learning, bat thathe has
not had leisure to look out for it, +"
-don't know" said man once who was
asked whether he could play the fiddle,