Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-05
LACONICS.
From "Laconies; or, the best Hords lie best Au-
M0rs"

MorS"
wealthy doctor who can help a Door man,
and will not withou, fee, has less sense of hu.
mainly than poor rutfian, who kills a rich man
to supply his necessities. I, is something mon
strous, TO consider man of liberal education
tearing out the bowels Of poor family, by TAX
ing for visit what would keep them for
week-Iatkr
Were there but one virtuous man in the world,
he would hold up his head with confidence and
honor; he would shame the world, and not the
world him --South.
Discrimination is but faint kind Of policy or
wisdom; fos il asketh strong wit and strong
heart 10 know when 10 tell the truth, and to do
it: therefore, it is the weaker sort Of politicians
that are the greatest issemblers.-Lord Bacon.
Something like home that is not home, alike
alone that is not alone, is to be wished, and OH
ly found in friend, or in his house.-Sr ".
Temple.
Men are not to be judged by their looks, ha-
bits, and appearances; but by the character OF
their lives and conversations, and by Networks
IT'S better that mans own works, than tina.
another mans words should praise him.-Sir
r. L'Estrange.
There arc those members Of Parliament, who
have such thick shell upon their brains, that
their Ignorance is impenetrable, and maketh
such a stout resistance against common sense,
that it will never be subdued by it; true heart
of-oak ignorance, that will never yield, let rea-
son beat never so hard upon it, and, though
their kind neighbors have, at screrai elections,
sent them up to school again, they have still re-
turned the same incurabIe dunccs-ISaviile
Some ladies speak loud and make noise to
be the more minded; which look as if they bea,
their drums for volunteers; and, if by misfor-
tune, none come into them,they may, not with
out reason, be good deal out Of Countenance--
SaviNe
Punsters very much contribute towards the
Sardonic laugh, and the extremes Of either wit
or folly seldom fail of raising this noisy kind of
applause. AS the ancient physicians held the
Sardonic laugh very beneficial 10 the lungs,
should, methinks, advise all my countrymen Of
consumptiye and hectcal constitutions, to asso-
cae with the most faceiious punsters of the
age.-Sfeele.
No man ever offended his own conscience.
but first or last twas reyengcd upon him for il.
isouthey
tyrant is but like king upon stage man
in vizor, and acting the part Of king, in a
play; he is not really king.-Diilton.
Shame is great restraint upon sinners at
first; but that soon falls of; and when men have
once lost their innocence, their modesty is not
like TO be long troublesome 10 them. For impu.
dence comes on with vice, and grows up with
it. Lesser vices do not Danish all shame and
modesty, but great and abomiuable crimes har-
den mems foreheads, and make them shameless
When men have the heart to do a very bad
thing, they seldom want the face to bear it out.
Tillotson
If a man die in his infancy, he hath left US a.
dinner; it is bedtime with aman at three-scorc
and ten, and he that lives to a hundred years
hath walked mile after supper. This life is
but one day of three meals, or one meal ofthree
courses; childhood, youth, and old age: to sup
we'll is to live well; and that's the way to sleep
well; no man goes to bed till he dies, nor wakes
till he be dead.-Sr T. OUerbWy
A death-bed fatlery is the worst of trea-
cherries. Ceremonies OF mode and compliment
are nightly out o. season, when life and SAL
walton come to be al stake.-!Sr l. Estyange.
What unaccountabe creatures are women!-
they treat their humble servants like slaves,
when they see Them; they rail at them, they'll
hardly vouchsafe them look, yet are uneasy
in their absence.-Iom BroUn
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