The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-11-25

BAGATEIIE.
To the last Urn, to0qIs

4 tHe tuct ~ me FO0fiS.
Dear Brolhcr--l have not heard from u
lately so often as ! used 10 before II was
dismissed from man, of your employ,nenis
by Noah Webster. Though n are nor now
in Jdror, as formerly, with Your comman-
ders or your neighbors, yet u are always in
security. aud have respectable share in
| the public purse, without any thing to do
with labor. by which il would seem that !.
are concerned in sinecure.
But took up my pen 10 complain of
my grievances. You know that among my
posts / claim : IN the word in.nelt, nj tl,
head aud one near the centre of this form-
dable detachment OF letters which ord,
you know, Is often PLACED in the front of
danger, and peril, and hazard. Now n
must know that 1 have been sIIamefully
used by the printers, or their devils, who
frequently displace me from the post OF
honour At thr head Of this word, aud Lace
my brother E there ; by which means vri
ters arr often thrown into eminent danger,
by these laundering type snntchers. But
| this IS not all they frequently press me
into foreign service, IN which ought 10 be
employed. III writer has occasion Ia
| speak Of an Ingenious character, il is ten TO
one that am forced by these fellows into
the place where ought To b.. and the ~ RI
ter Is made to say ingenious characlee thus
transferring to the head the compliment
that was meant for the heart, il would
seem in the first case, that these men are
overstocked with e's-tthoaXh they deny
that the printers business abounds with
ease) - in the second instance, that they
can find more IS than they can u's--(tho
one would think by their plumbers, thpl
! they bad no eyes at all. think il M more
than justice if 1, aud our brother r, and ~
should resign and bid them adieu, and ser
if they could find any body to serve in li,u
of US. think we have ii ia our power IL
make them feel our Consequence. by with.
draw ing our services, and If and ! and onI
friend should refuse 10 acquiesce any lon
ger III Their impnslloDs, aud ubandoa them
forever, they could have no quiet after.
wards | believe u and alone could
quickly do them up by qaittins them fol
then how could they advertise quiIIs, OF
how could they require payment from then
customers, to keep up their requisite sup
plies Though WAS never in h0Sie, any
more than II, yet must be doubly indua
trious for an egotsicaI Travellers nara
tI'e IL Just going To press, which is 10 b.
related in the first person. u know in suel
cases no one vi III be more frequently Gale,
on, or more busy than |.
p 81 have just heard from our bro
thero, who comp!gius tina, when any ono i
sad II lt,sp- my thng, the printers yer,
commonly put him on double duty, am
thereby make him out IA io0Se character
which wc know hc is not, for he is yer.
much respected in society, oi which he is
useful member shall ad'is. him To thro,
I hot shot al the I, BOWS, while u and 1 wi
qatz them. NJ 4, Pd.
The LorJs Pro- cr.-The following il
i literal translation of - Loids Prayer
Il as written by Ealdiifda, Bishop of Llndis
Il iarpc, about the year 700, and which Is Ill
earliest Specimen Of the Anolu-SaXon Ian
\ giage now rXfani. VIZ
q "Onr Father. which art in Heaven, b
halowe thy name IL come ihlne KING
dom be Ihnnc will So ~ IN heaven an
earth our LOAF suprr-rxccllent give as Ia
day and forgive IA debts ours, rs We iu'
, given dchta Of ours i, and mol lead us int
tompialion, but flee Us each from evil.
r .Inpi.'
BY literal translation OF this PRAYER, +.
( readrred two hund ri wears AFTER the p'
,rlnd above sllhdcd IL, ,nC only hIa.eria' "a