Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-11-06

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much the greater, by hos psd
he real ground for the contr.a
,reatest of all when there is M, s al
shadow ofground. Nd
1t would cost no great labour And
o illustrate these observations i, "
lucing various passages, or raths!.t
sentences. both in verse and uros. \
authors of celebrity, But a sin.,S
ample must suffice 81
While Man exclaims, See All !.
fer my use!!''
s. See Man for mine !"repliss
per'd goose. 'A
There is nothing perhaps in all /,
celebrated poem of Pope, The 81 o.. lss T
Nan. that has excited more DIe,s
and in the minds Of. e
aumSer OF readers. thaa this irI sla'N
antithesis, or contrast Of Man anS fe =
and yet nothing can be more s,.'.
L absurd than the sentiments f' "a
veys. @.
Man made for the use Of geese..,
ior this philosophy of Pope it =
the spurious mintage Of lis friend g' aa
!'roke The goose, so Ear from n D.s'
man, is happiest in the wild s,,,a
,e'sing the privilege of an aunIs w y,
aotent wing, she can choose h., ~ = w
aud her fed over the whole earth 'As
would be much more at her ease 10
7uman being existed But Man !
aege lord Of the lower creation. sland, =
afgent need of the goose. Nor !.
resignation of any inferr anrp, : ! y
lore clearly or more marvelIopsl,
MS particular use and essential h....
10 say nothing OF the luxury of he, s'a
or Of the superior luxury of her da'.
he Quilt entities the goose to r. us'l
tie very first Of subsI,r;o,
human veal.
An Indian Sachem, when one off,,
linn to take his son and learn him
write, contemporary replied, VIII
,ood will it do boy to learn IN II.
"lth feather ?" Nor was that r ~
at all unreasonable in a savage. T,
preferred his own condition, and A.
p'sed alike the employment aad sns
ments of civilized lite. But, in the \.
som of civiliza ion, and for The ,,,
purposes of promoting and extending j.
Feather isa potent ipsr.
nent indeed. Net even the mere NJ.
,hanical art Of using feather sdraI,
8 to be despised. Many deepl,,mt
scholar has regretted, too late, that /,
had not learned, when boy, to writ
air hand with ease and dispatch, how
muck soeyer it might have entrenchei y.
pom SEINE ofhis scholastic exercises sf,
higher order.
Whether we contemplate the diFassa
i moral light, BY the recent TRANSLATED,
,f the sacred volume into so many GHe,
rent tongues !; whether we consider o.
spread Of science and the arts, the con-
tiens of new inventions orof in.
'rovementsin the old ones whataerv
effect on the infinitely multifarious b.
liness of commerce, banks, and of can.
non deal in its innumerable branches;
II weather we turn our attention to hs
rultitude of tones and tracts, in r,r,
nd prose, that are calculated 10 make
he world wiser and better these, and
whatever there is else which rsI,ts TO
aoraIs and government, to Literature or
cience, to the pleasure of imaginsAunt
0 business of any and of every kind
'roceed all from the goose quill. So
his vast realm daily traversed by fs
nails. that aY in every direction, fI1rd
With thousands and tens Of thousMSd
ofbusiness. some sffNA.
hip, some Of love ; see parent and chN,
husband and wife, lover and mlstIe'.
rothers and sisters. by means Of iAs
psaking paper, converse together freely,
housh hundred OF miles apart = seeaI
hese proceeds of the quill, aud be'iPs''
you can, with the bard OF TwickeDhini
hat Man il no less made for the Coos
han the goose is for man.
And hark'e gentlemen of the tyPsi
our press is not so independent CUTE
S ye would fam make the weld SeIIs'e.
t is the quill that feeds il, and gives !;
fe and motion. Vain would besl
our printing apparatus, without 6Onnu'
vi contributions from this wcndcr work
ng instrument. Not even pr. FaustN
imself, wizard tho he Was thousbt 70
e, could have been able to keep A'
ress agoing without the pen.
Nay che letter founder, the paper 1>
er, the bookseller, and ali their ds'GsA
ents, draw their subsistence primary
ON the quill of the grey goose WHICH,
/ so far as it is under the guidance
ltellige1ce and con rated to the 's''