The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-03-17


are as old as myself. If q few quills are
thrown on table abide among them
out have fixed esidence in mos, fla
ces from the equator to the ftoles. lam
usetu! in motion, out res, as quietly in a
6ox, as | ride rehidlv on the hurricane
have been Possessed ~ a S'ud hhiio
sofher and his dog, and yet can give full
as much gracefulness and dignity to al
the motions Of man as the fsr-famed line
ot beauty Though of SUPERIOR order
and in myself the evidence of more
wonders than man can number or mea.
sure, have none Of the hride of the fen
dial system. | am neither above nv du
ties nor nv relations.
1t my present acquaintance is accehta
Ole, may one day introduce a relative OF
NINE, who will extend or circumscri6e
the dimensions of the earth 10 any size.
so as to be held in the hollow of a chjld's
hand, or become SO lofty as TO be invisible
10 the eye! He is not less earthly, much
more heavenly, NOT less mighty, weII de.
scrioed IN the world already and equally
non descriPt as | am; but though he is
my relative and of the same age as NV
self, he IS about as like to me as yioIe,
is 10 an aloe AS TO my common duties,
1 am the carpenters and cabinet makers
friend, and regulate and direct the manu-.
facture oftables doors, windows and ma.
thematical Instruments, giving them ner
iection with much rahidiry and beauty !;
am also to be found in every leaf of
book from the law OF Moses, in one roll
OF PARCHMENT of sixty yards long. to the
humole rage OF a child's two cent volume.
L am the chiefhroh of umbrella making
ana have ftolzed the car of many BAL
loon by my intimate connexion with the
PRINCIPLE of gravity and the attraction of
cohesion / am friend to watch ma
kers; they are none of them able to mark
time without my aid. But though de
void OF that sftecies Of Pride which DIS
tinguished titled 6arons in darker ages a
frienato mechanics, am nomechanc nv
selt,Yet have done whatever Archimedcs
LETT undone, for it is tina, stan the orbits
In which the worlas move and mark their
Progression Not only does ever, book
and tyfte engraving in the world bear
illness to my humble or exalted nower
and every author on theology. hhlIesohh,
necromancy' astronomy or geograh v,
acknowledge my rank Dat the extib,
Suisher o. The candle which turns hpbl
into darkness, and the stars as thew shine,
ana even the PLANETS when they are
e'lfSea' only throw more light on my
frowess, and make my importance more
us'ole. The share have unhahhjly
neid IN war,froves that am entitled to as
much, and If 1t De not egotism, much
m re admiration than any of the conone.
f"r7 OF the world. was the first and mo
wing aIa to Alexander when he tanned
6ucefhalus. odd Titus to take i
rusalem. 6afhd MarcelIpe ---5yfs
cuse. The Romans a. Cannae ;-and
the. descendanis IS Tyre at Carthage
and OF rAseid 10 knowledge drew aside
the veil which else would foI ever have
envcIofed, aud ferhshs hid The beauties
Homer, Virgil, Cicero, Putarch and
MIilon.-More naturally an ally to nature
than art, l first hehed The Nautilus TO
lit his little sail, and caused man to learn
from shell fi,h, how he might traverse
The ocean and QfeD the doors of com
merce to The world landed with
9sar when he invaded the B: lions. and
Without treacherv, Ialded Them in their
defence. com6atted Doth Harold and
William at the battle of hastings, and
decided the victory. was COMPANION
with Bonatsrte al Malmsison and Aus.
terlltzp with Alexander at Dresden and
Layoach--l AIDED CaBule 10 rebuke his
courtlers' and vas active among hunSreds
with WAsHINGToE, when he beat uh the
English qun ers at Trenton ardPrnceton.
and led Howe a long wearisome march
through the Jerseys. | nave in me still
more OF the ancient and modern classic
'han the WARRIOR, though have ranged
many cannon shot--as we'll as brIsiled
many Macedonian sfesr.-Attacbed 10
the classic of nature above all ahers. vet
l condescended to be the friend of p a,o
ana Pythagoras, nor dId | desfise Gum
lillian, though too grave to relax INTO a
smile at the silly manner in which school
boys sometimes quote him. ins,ructed
Euclid and demonstrated the mighty
powers OF Newton's mind 1 am ALWAYS
ready to assist all men 10 lose one day in
their lives, and have done so 10 tie ad11t.
ration Of the NEST Uirtnoas and pious of
men. Franklin was an economist OF time:
bu; no man was more Pleased than he al
my POWER of teaching man to lose a day
In my movements, am as exact as an
uDerTing chronometer--I have much 10
do with the ringing of bells and vibration
OF fendulums, and though cften in the
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