Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-05-08

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A living tongye latest those that are
afflicted BY #; and iattering mouth
worketh ruin "
Proverbs,
Flat}ery IS the kindred vice of false
hood and it i very questionable In a mo-
raj point ofview, whether a |" lying
tongue, or I" flattering month" worketh
|. the most ruin in society. The voice of
/ flattery IS as honey to the ears of the
weak and credulous. All the frailties of
our nature are made tributary to it. It
is dranght administered by cunning 4
duplicity, and its victim is at once delight
ed and intoxicated by it. It" worketh
ruins' among the old and the young. The
philosopher & ideot, are at times equally
accessible to it's power land the phren-
Nv of maniac has been known to be
soothed and subdued bvits Influence.
That the Garden of Eden was the first
theatre of a hattering moath working ru-
IN. and that our mother Eve was the un-
happy object Of its seductions, will hard.
ly be doubted. This circumstance has
been attempted to be used for. the purpose
of calumniating the fair and delicate de-
scendents of Eve; irnputing to them a
greater proportion of weakness in this
respect, than to their harder help-mates.
But this calunny we utterly reject. If
unfortunately, it be the case that women
are more frequently led to ruin or misery,
than the other sex, by the seductions of a
e flattcring mouth," a little enquiry will
satisfy us, thatit is not because their ma
tura dispositions render them an easier
prey but because false education and the
habits of society have impaired their in-
teIIectual & moral perceptions. And on
this account it is, that parents & guardi
ans are in no small degree answe:ab!e for
all the ruin which springs from this source.
Instead Of infusing into the infant minds
of your daughters an inordinate passion
for dress and seductive amusement, MIR
ture them with The sold facts of know
ledge. Inspire them with modesty and
hulni ity; and above al, admonish them,
not to look too partially on their own graz
ces or personal charms. Be particularly,
watc,,ful of their associations with the o.
Their sex. Danish from tkeir conversation
the vain, the giddy, and the presumTu-
Gus. Then viii society be exempt from
manY scenes Of anguish; and your fami-
ly circles g blossom with sweet scented
flowers"
To the fair, then, in the language Of
Solomon, we say,
When wisdom entereth into thire
heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy.
soul. discretion shall preserve thee, an
aerstaadine. shal keep thee. To deliver.
tllee from The way of the evil man, from
the man that speaketh trouarl things =
who learn the path of uprightness, and
walk in TIE ways Of darkness who re-.
ioice to Ia evil, and delight in the fro-
war.lness Of the wicked" .
We are now to sneak ola tlying tongue
the baneful effects of which are almost.
hourly either experienced or witnessed.
Witt Solomon. we cordially say, that
:. he that bidcth hatred with lying lips,
and he that uttcreth SANDER, is fool"
There are numerous Grades of lying,
differing, however, very inmaterially in
their disgrace Or criminalty. A wil'ful
deceiver is not only fool, but sinner.
He can never escape the condemnation
of his own conscience, whether il be done
from malice or FOR sport: for 6 it is sport
to fool to do mischief"
The malicious lyar is perhaps at TIE
pinnacle of his fraternity: Scorpions hiss
from his tongue. It carries desolation
on every word. 1t penetrates into the
recesses of domestic happiness. and tram
pies down all the Obligations of benevo-
ience and hospitality.
TIE habituot tyn'', though he may be
pit:ed. must always be despised-it las
been observed by many moral writer's
t!at there exists constitutional prone
ness ia some families for this contempt
bic and degrading vice. Alas, what an
unfortunate legacy for a child "A pro.
nensity to magnify, to produce the won
derfu,. is often discovered in our inter-
course with the word. Stories, more
preposterous if possible, than the adsen-
lures of Munchausen. are frequently re-
lated. Gin sensible Giro es too) with the
most apparent gravity; and the weak
narrator, by frequent repetition, becomes