Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-10-07

LAcoNs MAxIMs-i If you employ puppy
to bark at your neigh 1gs" sal4 cr Philip Francis,
"you need uot be De surpri,cd if he occasionally
gets kick, or is i,oGaded IN tender point" by
passengers"
.That cannot be true. It's impossible, for mono
ject," exclaimed J Jammy Lnkumieedle Esq. when
he heard that the So lth American powers had elect
ed delegates to attend the Congress of Panama
Nay, tits impossioe-ior my correspondent at
Santiago has not said word On the su bect and
you know, Mr.. Crsdulous, that my correspondents
advise me Of alf the political movements of the
age"
3. Thus | reply to the propositions Of Bishop
Berkley" said DIR. johnson, stamping his foot on
the floor of Westminster Hall, 4" thus refu;e, and
thus confodnd him. thus prove to him the ex-
istence matter-and he shall feelthe force of my
proposition"
a. "Ifyou wish to distinguish yourself, my dear
Charley" cried old Peter Carbuncle, the watch
man, set yourself up as an Editor OF a newspaper,
and then employ another press to puff your per-
formances. If you find contemporary publication
meets with unexampled success, and is likely te
outsail you, attack it tooth and naif in your clos
et--throw vollies of scandal and filth at all concern
ed in it, till you have made it black the infa
my of your own reputation n-and then, my dear
Charley you may set yourself down, for distin-
guislted character"
s. ~ once had pig" said Lord Chatham, in re-
ply to Granville, 'that everlastingy squealing
He annoyed every one that came within mile Of
my dwelliug-And how do you think stopped his
clstter Why, Sir, wrung his pigship's nose till
he ceased his squealing."
e.'..as e~-sess man is made glnomy. not only by
his own cloud, but by another's sunshine. lie may
exclaim with the Poet, OZARK, dark, midst blase
ofhgk." Desperate by his own irl.,rOpriefies, snd
infuriated by the prosperity of aaoth q, he would
fan fly to that hell that is tsyonl aim, to escape
that which IS within. la short cayyis almost the
only vice. that constantly punshes ITSELF in the very
act of its commission; and the ,nvious makes
worse bargain even than the hypocrte for the hypo-
crte the devil without wages but the envious
man him, not only without reward, but to be
punished also, for his pains
z. Courage is Incompatible with the fenr of
death; but every villain fears death; therefore no
villain be brave. lie may, indeed possess the
courage of rat, and fight with desperation when
driven into a corner. II by craft and crime
cessful adventurer should be enabled to usurp n
kingdom, and to command its lesions, there may be
moments, when, like Richard on the field OF Bos-
worth, or Napoleon on the plains of Marengo, all
must be slaked an awful crisis, when, his throne be
overturned, his scaold must rise upon its ruins
Then, indeed, though the cloud OF battle should
lower his hopes, whiis its iron~i.aii is rafting
around him, the grea1sS-soward will ardlyRy to
ensure that iaath which he can only escape by
-SeifIy. the glare of courage thus elected by
danger, where fear conquers fear is not to be com
pared to that calm sunshine which constantly cheers
and illuminates the breast ofhim who builds his
fdence on viruous principles il is rather the tram
sient and evunesceut lightning of the storm, which
derives half its lustre from the darkness that sur
rounds it.