Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-09

fra reanemarance Of ear ancient cosncaaenss
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foar VA. temptea u make enc i. ars. flis4.
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| Yea they had % totally ostsasir essilsaa.
fth,t wss half incliAed % fancy ny Eileen
Eve,rs ,,ssnsaoe In die ossntry imaginarys
! and ,s.s IKE Mahsaet, I had been Wrapped
IN a trarse, during which Divers sad netsoRs
and f.nts,tic visions had been Aoatins in my
! fancy. s- ..- ....-a,,@. =
You would have been similarly TTnpressed
could vow have known al The sensations Of
surprise, astonishment and riticuie that as
sailed me during my observations on sqaeez z..
These commenced with Professor xnowalls
whom the ceremony Of my Introduction had
interrupted in lecture he was delivering with
much pomp of eloeution and assertion On
what, 'from some occasional phrases that fell
to the level Of my comprehension, as "sen-
tent principle Of fitness, impeccability o.
will and inherent tendency to right" sup
posed might be the dignity Of human ''dfnfes
'on-whicH his auditors bestowed that compla-
cent attedtion which no doubt originated in
the consciousness OF their own "impeccatili.
ty Of will" and Is Inherent tendency to" wiz
tue, and which would have rendered the argu.
ments Of the Professor twho however wisely
forebore any altogether superauou'. =
Hitherto DR.. Ratio and Mr.. Divedeep
had like myself been the attentive auditors OF
Professor Know all but question sosn arose,
adequate to the great energies of their ra"-
ocinatinr Jaeultie.. "Strange," suddenly &.
claimed MIR. Divedeep, whose eyes with an
air of profound abstraction had been for some
moments fixed on the wall, which from the
dampuess of the evening was covered with
moisture, " surprising It's that the bricks OF
this wall which in making have been exposed
to the sun and then to the action OF an intense
FIRE, .houid retain - astenishins degree Of
humidity!!"
elf may be permitted to differ from the
gentleman" said Mr.. Know-all, " should
rather suppose this moisture to be the rain
which the driving of the wind against 1t has
forced through the wall" :
"Nsy," rejoined Dr.. Ratio, " that is clearly
impossible, seeing that there are not less than
q dozen brick buildings between it and any
open space"
Here then was what the Doctor mighthave
termed a dilemma that the moisture pro-
teeded from the bricks was certainly astonish-
ing; that it had made its way through dozen
brick walls appeared equally incredible: there,
nevertheless; il palpabiy and ineontestably
wac.
When Imodest1y ventured to hintthe true
esuse Of the phenomenoa, perceived such
mixture of surprise and sheer in the counte-
nance ofMr. Professor as caused me piecipi-
lately to retreat from the circle Of philoso-
pliers not without admiring that lofty con-.
formation of soul that stumbled over whatiay
under its nose, and plunged forward into the
prsfundities Of reason to draw forth truths
that outweighed the authority and contradict
ed the doctrines of Revelation itself. :;
MY attention was next attracted by the flu
ent eloauence of Rsot of misses, whose
whole stock of volubility and sentiment was
elected by some romance of lady author,
one Miss Owenson, whose sentiments when
I could disensumber them of certain elafh-
~ superauity of drapery, i remember to
have struck me AZ sasouring remarkably Of
rantiss nonsense. 4 am ashamed to tell you
how outre / had been IN my taste: to my no
small confusion~I discovered, that what had
laughed at AZ absurd, vas charming, sensible,
>,v;ttv.-the uuintessence OF taste, and what /