Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-02
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VEDNESD. az, SEPTEMBER 9, l818,

SUITS d't tItN itVt iu' d'''N Wv
as too tire-spun for the business Of life =
But that is no reason why we should abstain
from displaying the beauty and usefulness
of such sentiments, or utterly despair OF
winning over some few among US to the
practice of morality, in their social in
tercourse, founded on those, or OH princi-
pies of the same delicate and philanthropic
tendency. Thoroughly TO understand them'
il is not enough that man should derive
from nature a nice sensibility of soui-he
must have acquired sufficient knowledge
of the human heart to be master OF all
the various inlets by which it is Vulnerable
and susceptible of pain, and OF those va
rious operations of the mind by which its
sufferings are exasperated A person so
qualified, will decide from the habits of
others, the exact proportion of delicacy
and punctilious humanity with which each
ought to be treated well knowing that
what would be Kindness to one man would
be cruelty to another, and that disap-
pointment which would not more deeply
affect the peace of one kind Of persons, than
riding across rivulct without allowing him
to drink would affect horse, would be a
kind of half death, or at least torture mex
pressible, to another. There are some
men know, who when any promised good
presents itself TO their hopes, give loose
to their fancies in anticipated Indulgence,
figure TO themselves the enjoyment they are
10 have, in thousand exaggerated forms,
which they paint in the most glowing CO.
lors it is possible for the invention OF poet
to bestow upon them and who are aston.
ished that their friends do not sympathize
with them to the full measure of ter ex-
cessive modification, if their fine, high fly
ing sanguine hopes, be disappointed oftrri-
ton by failure in the main object OF their
expectation. The habit of Castle Building,
as it is called, arises from the same source
with this tendency TO hope, and considera-
bly, aggravates the miseries of those VIC
Tins of sensibility. For which reason, tho
confess that castle building has IFS plea
sures, and those too of very exquisite
kind, yet rs | have known il so 10 exaspe-
rate the mseries OF disappointment, as al
most 10 lead to madness, ! scarcely know
the trespass would be more reluctant to
commit on my unofending fellow creatures,
than that of throwing myself between the
reasonable, honest expectations of castle
builder and their ultimate accomplishment
To the Coarse, the vulgar and the unfecling,
this peculiar turn of mind is unknown; and
so far from exciting their sympathy for the
modification Of its victims, would rather
move them to merriment and rude dersion.
A prospect of advantage is presented TO
the view Of one of this casi--so intent is he
upon enjoying it that be never observes
any one Of the multitude of distractions
which lie between him and its certain at
tainment, some thrown in the way by the
ordinary process Of natures operations,
some by the ordinary course Of human af-
fairs, some by unforeseen and incalculable
accidents, and some, and by far the greater
number, and of the most inevitable kind,
by the cold-blooded vilany ofenyious, self
interested, sordid, and unfeeling men.-He
~ tho ,.hnIa l.x,.,l - h. raipc ri
his glowing fancy-a large share of his SAN
.guine anticipations, perhaps, are built on
the exercise of interchangeable viii make
such person as happy as himself-he will
provide for one, bestow gifts on a second,
put third in The way of providing for him
self--his soul sinks into dream of phlan-
thropic felicity, and Of the whole of this
mass Of happiness, perhaps not particle
is appropriated exclusively TO himself, save
only the reflected pleasure of making others
comfortable he not only has the most
perfect belief Of the reality of the Scene,
but casts out of view every dissgreeable
Circumstance that could in The least disturb
the harmony of the picture, and admits no.
thing that does not contribute more or less
to enhance the luxury ofthe ideal banquet.
From the operation Of any one of those
causes, considerable dergee of satisfaction
would be derived even by dull, cold and
phlegmatic persons but he has warm
Imagination, violent sensibility, and deli