Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-08-25

lngs and conduct should verify the excellent
saying of Terence, "Homo sum, hltnsani nal
me alier1uns puto." Example has ever been
much more powerful than precept, and this in
obstrusive way of instructing others will hard
ly fail Of being beneficial to those, who see the
teacher following his 0Wn instructions. To do
things, and to do them we'll, which belong to
other occupations than to that which we fol-
low, makes deep and favourable impression
on those, who are chiefly devoted TO those
things. To perform these minor concerns,
which are foreign to our principal employment,
In sLorenty and imperfect manner, always ex
cites the laughter, and oftentimes the derision
and contempt Of all who see and know our de-
fciencies, and their own superiority. Cincin-
natus is more remembered and venerated for
holding his own plough in his own field, than
for all his achievements and victories in the
camp during his successive relationships. That
which is so conducive to health, so honouraTy
in itself, and SO auxiliary to lasting fame and
which will be sweet memorial, when militia
ry feats and mere displays of gigantic intellect
shall be consigned to 6 dumb forgetfulness,"
ought never to be forced on the observance Of
any man, who feels the obligations and ac-
countahilities of moral agent. Voluntarily
and unadvised he will be anxious to possess a
perfect symmetry of character and do all those
subordinate things which generate vigour of
body and mind and difuse comfort and useful
ness. President Humphrey has recommended
the ace, the SGlc and the spade TO be used &C.
casionally by these Of a sedentary life as the
best preservatives of health, and that which is
so exPedient and salutary ought TO be well
come and delightful. Whoever will peruse
! the life of DR.. Dwight, will be astonished TO
| find, that when he had done more as divine
and a scholar than almost any other man ever
| did, he should still have inclination and time
to cultivate, for years, with his own hands, a
large flower apd culinary garden and attend
to an infinite variety of other rural and domes-
tic concerns. A lawyer who cannot set out a
tree or shrub, for use or ornament, hoe hill
of corn, or a cabbage, weed his vegetables,
cut or saw stick oil wood, feed and tackle his
horse, and perform the little but numerous
tasks that daily recur and call for execution
in his barn and around his dwelling, has not
yet arrived 10 perfection, and is not entitled
to the appellation of a we'll proportioned man !;
and his neighbours, and those who pass by,
cannot yet look TO him as an eTen,plaT in those
things, which constitute the most valuable
services in the life of man. To see "a lawyer
who does his professional duties ably and faith
fully, and is steadily in attendance at his Of
fee, and yet, by good husbandry and judicious
division Of time, finds leisure, and has juds-
ment and taste to teach, by neatness and a
wise superintendent, even experienced farm
ers, in the art of horticulture and agriculture,
and how to rear up sheep and cattle and en-
rich and beautify the soil--who works and
studies more Intensely and more hours, and
practises more frugality than the poor hreling
and day-labourer--and who encourages good
manners and pure morals and the increase OF
useful knowledge, and bears the burdens, and
discharges the social, relative, and public do
ties of life with fdelity-to see lawyer unit.
ing all these necessary and excellent qualitie:
could not fail to make the beholder wish to gc
and do likewise. This is an example thai
must preach eloquently and pathetically tc
4 the INDECENT lounger, who cannot afford t.
waste moments time, and whose sole bust
ness is, manual labour. 1t speaks forcibly tc
the selfish and mean spirited man-it is what
the gambler at his cards and the oacchanaliar
at his cups cannot think OF without self.re
proach and computations; and, to those who
!. are doing well, it is an Indictment to do still
better. Two or three such models continu.
ally exhibited among population OF fifteer
hundred, or two thousand inhabitants, mus
necessarily be productive ofincalculable good
and in every respect improve the state of soci
ETY.. For fear Of sotling their hands, darken
ing or lacerating the white and delicate skin
or thiEking il degradation to touch th. dirt,
earth or see manure, few have, as yet, giyer
specimens of being, what all ought to be, il
the nliRattidS of lite. In addition to the fore
going qualifications and duties lawyer (anc
every educated MANI ought, when he ha
stored his mind with science and literature, t.
put it in circulation. The boarded money O
the miser cankers and corrodes, and the use o
this representative of property and medium o
exchange is entirely lost to the world. Thi
mess would increase by being put out on inter
est. In like manner the scholars stores of va
rious knowleds e rust and waste away by dis
use and stagnation, and his funds grow less b,
locking up the vaults. These literary treas
ures brighten and augment by emptyins tn,
depositoIy,anG the proprietor grows rich by ;
: frequent and gratuitous distribution of hi
!, wealth. No bankruptcy can ensue from thu
most prodigal importation, and, az in the be
stow:nent OF aims, the giUer has more pleasHr
than the recsi'Sr, Then why should those
l who possess abundant resources, and can
duy ttIle IGSdlS tuSlE company WlIDOuI eX
, pense, with intellectual aliment forbear, b.
: reason of superciliousness or apathy, to serv,
up an entertainment which is so needful anc
8 which would be SO acceptable to their poo
and hungry aud thirsty guests! How mucI
may be done, by literary man by the recon
: incubation ofbooks Of taste and sentiment anc
by ree>literary conversations, to enlarge anr
refine the minds, improve ihe co!loquial pow
ers, and add to the felicity Of the social circl,
in which he moves. Ascbmides thought b,
could move the earth had he place to stand
and we baNe known men, who had strength
t and a standing and might, at pleasure, put il
motion the whole world Of mind, aud yet the,
would not open their lips TO stir or animal,
F., one mental particle. Hours of sullen tacitur
, nifty and chilling reserve have been INDUCED
} when all might have been toasted with NOR.
: than ambrosial repasts. How many Interview
! have passed in tribes and foolish conversation
; that might have been " coloquy sublime, ;
: an cmanation ofintelligence and almost ccles