Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-12-16
nd then they fell to csvst"s and as''f'

ia enough" Greedy - lily 80
&c r;cbss does but the more lin'ne 1t' so
~ 10 nor. i5 has, the more II wants
, W therefore lots into his heart the
~. Of this demon, IS sare to lead rest
w l;ft. and TO die with his worldly crav-
100. nn,atished. Pride too never says, 1t
!; ;se enough" WHAT degree OF honor, OF
nower. Of grandeur can be found sufficient
- sat;sfy tie cravings Of the proud mans
hsar,a Haman was the prime minister OF
n,on,rch. who 6 reighed from India even
INTO E.thio,ia. over an hundred and TWEEN
.u epv4p nro, inces )" and both courclers
AID the people bowed the knee 70 this same
Haman. Tes-'' all this ava'cd MN Moth
inc" so long as one man, Mordsca' the
lew. refused 10 bow to han, AID to do nm
reverence. Nay he was not merely diss.-
tished that among SO many millions one So
ltary individual was found wanting IN re-
spect toward him, bue his heart was SO
stu1g with this triAe that he left the court,
and :" hasted TO his house, mourning and
having his head covered Alexander and
some of the Roman eloperors were not
contented with all the honors that could
POSSIBLY be heoped upon them, as men, but
they even claimed 20 be G0ds, and As such,
required adoi alton and divine i'onors.
1t would be impossible to tell what pre-
else quantity Of worldly estate is just sufh-
Gent, and no more than sufficient since 1t
would depend upon a variety OF circum-
strnces growing OFT of the particular state
of society, and on number OF other items
which could not be calculated to halr.-
The be 8, rule is, to take up satisfied with
appointment which providence makes, and
having food and rainent Herewith to be
content.
The middle state Of life has been tho't
blythe wise to afford the best means BOTH
for the enjoyment Of comfort and for the
n,ac,ice of virtue. Under this impression,
pious sage Of Old made ths following Pc
,;,;on to heaven, g Give me neither power
~ nor riches" know Of none among the
modtrns, how much sosver they may diff
fer in points Of religion or Of politics, who
have any objection to the first clause OF this
praver Of Augur bat in this nonsy-lov-
| ,nc AGE, it is questionable whether many
can be found, either male or female, who
pray heartily that riches may not fall to
Or wh4 gaa s hon VIZ q cold s thar fh,,
was falling into thele laps. 1t is however
certain thai riches and poverty are two ex-
,remes. each encoppassed wiki peculiar e
wills and without saying what noae vii!
h..,;4ve. that extreme riches is as much TO
| BIZ dreaded as extreme poverty, would
wish 20 impress this useful truth, that peo-
! ne in mddling circumstances, if they
would only think SO themselves, have T.
! noueh. and have reason to be thankful for
their lot, rather than to repine al it.
If YOU are GU. ct debt, /! also YOU have
a snug farm, a saou 1r-dt, or =3y other
means by which VOC can honestly support
your family and lay u? yearly little mo-
nay beside, what can you reasonably desire
more 1t is true, you take from lil,le
heap, but if the hesp were an hun dred
times as big, you could neither eat nor
drink the more for that, though it would
cost YOU much more care and pains to
guard it and to keep it. With respect to
the real wants of life, you have enough
and as to your children, give them useful
learning, and bring them up to habits of
industry, frugality, and sobriety, and they
too, III all probability, will have enough,
though you should be able to bsquca,h
them but very little ia your last will
The good people Of this country little
consider what superior advantages for con.
venent and com Portable living they enjoy,
compared with those of their iorefathcrs.-
Alfred, the wisest and best king, perhaps
that England ever had, used to sit upon
three-legged stool chairs being not used
or known then. 1t Is but little more than
two centuries since tht. T n click MI -. LII