Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-09-12

my idea, entitled to no manner OF CEN
sure, for allowing the dcvout father OF
+" Miss Mittssa and Miss Serena to
attend his daughter. once or twice,
to the theatrical entertainments aud
public diversions - nor yet for al
lowing him to let the said misses.
:. learn to dance in order TO acquire
genteel air and graceful demea-
nUr."
Observe, that in producing Mr..
Hervcy's Judgment concerning the
not absolute unlawfilness of all stage
entertainments, and other public di-
versions. [ do not mean to enter a
plea for myself. l have seen but three
plays,sinte / took orders, lie. for these
eleven years d ahalf. and shall proi,a
bly, never see another not because l
am persuaded Gift being sinful. (fnr
| think | might as innocently see
Shakespcare's Henry the Fourth act
ed ON the stage, as read the history
Of that prince by my own fre-side)
but because consider the play house
as too public place Of amusement,
for a clergyman to frequent. More
over, l was never once at Yauxkall
nor at Ranelagh, for the very same
reason Il for no other. Neither was |
at an assembly. except once viz. Sc
yeral years ago, at Weymouth. in
mere complaisance to Mrs. Macau-
ley, though We both abstained from
touching a card. While there, we
only saw and were seen. and chatted
with thoselwe knew. But enough of
this DEPRESSION.
8. l cannot unsaint st. Chrysos.
tom, for admiring the comedies of
Aristophanus to such degree. as to
read them perpetually, and even to lay
them under his pillow when he slept.
9. | do not think it criminal in that
good and useful man, Mr.. MADAM,
to indulge himselfin horse racing, and
in bunting. fishing. and shooting -
He himself makes no secret of all this |;
else l would have omitted to men-
ton it. Now | am not attached to a.
ny of these sports. Not to the first. for
| utterly dislike it; not TO the second,
because am rather a timid rider /;
not to the third, because have neither
time nor patience enough nor to the
fourth, for never fired gun in my
life. But shall ], like those IN Hudi-
bras. and like too many censorious
professors now,
Compound for things ,m inciiued TO-
BY blaming what have no mnd o.
God forbid !! let every mao Judge for
Gimself. and stand or fail to his own
master above.
10. Archbishop Williams required
hut two hours sleep uut of the twenty
four. On the other hand. bishop kenn
seems to have required twelve for he
>ays,
Dull SLEEP, ofsense me 10 deprive!
am but half nv time alive.
Would it not be very absurd. were
we for that reason, to pronounce Will
liams heller man than Henn i?
II. Shall l question the piety of
good old Mr.. Moses Browne, because
he Iinds a pleasure in angling fortrout
and erls I He showed me. when was
last in London, some sheets of the
new edition of his 'Eclogues on Fish
ing He IA fond of that recreation
himself. and as fond of instructing o.
theirs in it. Is he therefore ungodIy !?
Or permit me to ask is there half SO
much loss of time at pool of quad.
rifle. as an anglers hook and line are
attended with ii must add, Which
has least of cruelty in 1.-THE depri-
wing real fishes of life by the most ex-
cruciating torture. or the playing for
fishes made Of ivory or mother Of
pearl B.?
IL. will not sit in Judgment on
my dear friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Flow
err, for having their amiable daughter
taught to play on the harpsichord, to
dance, &c. &c. Nor am I angry with
the fair ialuisitive herself. for being
one Of the most elegant and accom-
plishcd females that ever were eHti-
tied to that character.
10. cannot condemn the vicar of
Broadhembury* for relaxing himself