The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-04-29

" When thou Bes ST mhn vi understand
| lng, get thee bttlales unta him, aud lei thy
| het wear the Steps Of Iii, door,
| Yes, 10 "A would of weak ones, IL IS our
lniy, it will he our pleasure, and. ye sci
| fish generation, 1t viii be for our interest
90, 10 yield lasois /, the wise, and bread
In men of understanding. Our patronage
will be put rarely exercised, and few viii
be the loaves for these wise men IN de
Your, for looked, aud 10 they are a soil
tary aud seanty band, unobtrusiye, like the
hermit of the mountains.
But, though the man of understanding
is rarely To be seen, and though II would
profit us much under the sun. to gather the
honey of his lips, such Is our perserseucss,
our folly, or our fate, that untrodden by
our feet we suffer the moss to gnther on
the steps of his door
My study window o,ellooks the house
OF an eminent physician he understands,
accurately, tue nice movements of the hu-
nun machine he is botuist, skilled IN
the properties of plants, the cedar of Ii
banus, and the 'hyssop on the wall : he
has mcditated on the system of nature.
aud he has tried many of the processes OF
art. see him turning over the volumes
which contain the secrets of medicine, and
! hear him describe, skilidly, the various
modes To blunt, ar TO extract, the arrows
OF disease. But, alas my careless coun-
trymen, all this availcth him nothing. -
The blind, the MAIN, and the halt. of our
villages, refuse bread 10 this man ofundrr
standing aud measure their wheat, IN
trimming bushels, 10 the quack, who can
not distinguish tween fever aud the
govt, who applies his nppers 10 = wart,
aud thinks he extracts a cancer, Wlia pot
sons you with aniimony, curdles your
blood with caiomel, drenches yea with
enleebling teas, and, as n wit once express
I'd il, prescrihes dralghts so neutfai they
declare neither for the patient nor the
malady. II the Royal Preacher, in whose
writings ] dnd my text, had seen whole
villages, clamorous, at tue midnight hour,
Tor imiid qnack, and his powders, and
passing by on the other SIDE when they
| see the regular practitioner, he would have
| Forgotten, for "A momnut, all the wisdom of
| the East, and, like provoked Peter. III the
| Gospel, would curse and swear at such
egreglous folly.
Those of my readers, who will gladly
turn out of the paths Of error, when they
hear a warning Voice behind them, here
Is better path, walk therein will, hope,
learn the value OF men of understanding!
When their value Is once know, tho steps
of their door will be hourly ascended.--
They viii teach us how 10 think, tn speak,
and to act II diyines, they will not at
tempt To persuade you, that Heaven can
not be taken, but by the violence of Scotch
divinity. II lawyers, they will not de-
mand cSorbItant fees 10 support a rotten
cause. lfpbysieians, you win hear them
utter no words more cramp than Tenn
pcrance' and Regimen. II moralists,
hey will mark the difference between wis
dom aud cunning, they will point ont the
weakness, as well as wickedness, of those
petty frauds, those iniquitous contracts,
| thuse tricking arts of j0ckeyShip, SO FREE
quent, and SO disgraceiu among a rural
| people, where noaght bat simplicity should
be found. 10 such diyines you will cheer
fully vote the ampIest salary, aud you viii
receive in exchange that wisdom, which
| ye are assured, in volume of the highest
authority, is better than rubles.
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