The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-09-29
mo. Is.

when n man has toiled high up a
steep bill OF knowledge. that he
should be cast, like Sisiphns. down.
wards in moment that he who
has worn the day and wasted the
night in gathering tie gold Of SCI
enre, should be-witb all his wealth
of Iearning. all his areumulatons---
made bankrupt al once. What be.
eoteys or all the riches Of the so,ll---
TIE pi1es aud pyramids Of precious
thoughts which nea heap together
Where IL Shakspeare's imagination
Baeoi,'s learning Where is tho
sweet fancy of Sydney--thc airy
spirit OF FIetcher-and Milton's
thought severe Methinks such
things should not die and dissipate,
when hair can live for centuries,
aud a brick of Egypt will last two
thousand years | am contented to-
believe that the mind oi man SUR
wives (somc~hcre or otller) bis clay.
Most OF my friends have died
calmly. One wasted away for
months and months; and tho death
came slowly, he came too soon. I
was told that Mr.. - +" wished to
live" On the very day on which
he died, he tried to battle with tho
great kinS--to stand up against tho
eoldncss and fnintDcss which seized
upon him. But he died. rutwiIh-
standing, and though quietly, reluc-
family. Another friend, IN lemale)
died easily, and in old age, surviving
her faculties. A third met death
smiling. A fourth was buried in L.
Italian earth, among flowers and %
dorous herbs. A fifth, tire nearest
Of ail--dicd gradually, and his chill
dren came about him and were sad
but he was resigned Ia all fortunes,
for he believed in II long " hereaf-
ter"
All that has been, and is 10 come.
must die, and the grave must possess
all. Already the temple Of death Is
stored With enormous treasures.--A
Hut il shall be filed till IFS sides shall
crack and monlder, and its gaunt
king. Death the skeleton shall
H,ther like his prey. Oh! il the
dead may speak, by What rich noises
IL that solemn temple haunted -
What countless throng Of shapes
IL there. kine9 and poets. philoso-
piers and soldiers What u cata-
logue might be rcckoned-from tho
founder Of the tower of Bolns, 10 tho
Persian who cncamped IN the Baby
lonian squares---to Alexander and
Socrates, and Plato---to Casar---tO
Alfred Fair names, too, might be
strung upon the list, like pearls of
glancing amonds---crentures MhO
were once the grace and beauty of
the earth, queens and gentlewomen--a
Antigone and SAppho--Corinna and
the mother OF the Graeehi--Partia
and Agrippina. And the story might
be ended with him who died an exile
on his surrounded rock. tho first
Emperor Of France, the king anil
eonqueror Of Italy, the Corsiean sol
der, NAPOLEON.
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Among tho advertisements in n
late Washington PA. Reporter, We
find the following:
Proposals will be issued shortly,
for publishing a work, entitled The
Village Gossip. or Woman Unsexcd%
In which vii. be displayed the bane-
ful effects OF the vice OF Gossipping
together with the crininality ot
those who countenance 1t by afford
ing an attentive ear. Showing tho
fatally Of the human mind--whicli
appears to DC spell bound, by the
aitchery Of Misunderstanding an ca5.
sy assent to the ll'ightiul details oil
the r1ost Incredible facts. At the
same time unmuasItihg the gossip OF
her Hypocrisy, aud holding her de-
gformIties up to the mirror OF ma
ture," proving that the muse is not
altogether imaginative When she
says, The gossip
" Can bcdm the noon day sun
! T}efNiNt fic green sea ana thu azure vault