The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-08-17

the bght N ~ Jusi alter a storm nj
yea, that the shuddering passenger
can best listen to the account of n
shipwreck.
To he 4 little more serious. il |
have not been serious enough alrca.
dy. will repeat my motto "a cler-
ryman does his text. that we may
not let slip (whereof there is much
'langer\ the thread of discourse. u
said IL 1ooS time 10 retire This
simple signing line. was the utter
ance Of Charles James Fox, in the
only piece ofpoctry Of his that \ cv.
er read. As he was Il man when
he wrote. and q great one too. i
leads us from these childish things,
tn that kind Of retirement which is
imagined and set forth in the don't
ing dreams of maturity. This, a
mong men in the ,igor of manhood,
through all their different occura-
lions, is the elixir of life. Il IL this
which reuews their age, and prom
ises not only to make il long, bui 10
make the end OF IL So happy that II
shall require all their former tolls.
They mean To retire. and they fancy
forth their country seats, their rms,
gardens. orchards, pasture and To-
rests. while they yet in,aoit such
SEES. shops, X lawyers offices, where
they sell drugs, ale, aud advice.
They dream of II q nights. tell their
children stories about it---lpr no man
eyer yet undertook tolqulet n rhIldby
telling him story about bank or
a counting house, or the nitric ate
points of contested lawsuit. Thus
they build themselves houses and
plant vineyards, more vain than
those which were planted by that
wisest of lsrae's Kings, Solom-
on.
Most people who seriously pro-
pose to withdraw from the acencs
where they are always engaged in
disputes and contentious incident 10
a motley making llic, hang npon the
increasing means of retirement, til
accident, or the laws of nature put il
out of their power; and their whole
enjoyment IL like that 1t the great
prophet when he stood ON Plsgah
and looked down this side Jordan
mt "A land which he Was doomed nev .
or to enter.
Sweet fields beyond the swelling aood,
Stand dre-s'd IN living green"
Thus manhood passes and age o
vertakes us weary aud Old TIL
this intervening stage before our IL
nal resting pIAce, is felt 10 be too
short a stopping spot to tempt us a
side IN our passage thlther.
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A highly gifted nobleman was
sfrnck at Freemark Fair with pc
cullar wa.ggishness in the express
sion Of 3. common monkey, and i'm
mediat'ely purchased him. Pug was
carried on board his yacht, and
made. fast in the cabin. The day
wa3 very hot. The marquis hav-
i:,g excrted himself with rowing, d.
{ in working his vessel, bad thrown :
side his ncckcloth, and unbuttoned
his shirt collar beihg an absent
man, I've sat down in this untashion-
able trim to eat some hot chops aud
potatoes. Pug had dexterously ma
mayed to divide the cord which fas.
tened him and having cast long
ing eye on the ,iands spread before
his lordship, made spring to the
centre of the table, seizing as he pas
sed smoking hot potatoe, which,
with great quickness and address,
he hoped down the back of his lord.
ships neck with one paw, while he
seized the chops oh his plate with the
other, and skipped off with bis prize
up the companion-ladder. and was
soon safe in the rigging while the
marquis was halIooing and dancing
with burning hot potatoo down his
back
A London paper says, nothing
more fully proves that fortune is
blind than her giving 100000 in
Prizes to two members Of ParIia-
ment who voted against Lotteries.
Recipe. how to get rid of an ac-
quaintance whose society you do not
like, If he is poor lend him some
money; if be is rich, ask him to lend
you some.-BOth means are certain
e1perto crcde Roberto.
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