Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-08

iment, is altogether sham plea. The real FAR
nper. who lives by his labour, alone makes use
full ex oeriments, because he alone undertakes
them at a heavy persona! risk. Gentleman
farming is the refuge of those who can neither
think nor read, and who prefer doing misc met
and injuring their property, 10 enduring "e
load Of an existence which they know not how
TO enjoy AS for gardening, there Is some,
ching. | grant, i'm that. OF all the moces OF
nassing The heavy hours of a country life, gar
dening is &c rtain,y the most interesting and a
ereeable Yet the story of our first parents ex-
emplifes how little il is To- be depended upon
as resource against ennu. Adam had never
been introduced al Crockfo"d's, nor Eve admit
led at Almack's; yet amidst all this Ignorance
of life, they feI,, notwithstanding that they Gull
tivaGed the finest garden OF which history makes
mention, Besides the florist may have, u ne
. chooses, hundred times more pleasure IN Lon
don than can De obtained in the country he
productions of every CLINE ere laid At his ice',
collected within the small space ct nursery
ground; and there is scarcely handr'd rqu@re
yards in the suburbs or the m''ro .'o.is Sit'ont
its specimens of raritics. 1nv one of which ;hf
rich country gardener nigh, BE- p'oud 10 pos
sess. Then as the labor and III flicn',y of rrar-
ing plant to a healthy maturity Is far greater
in the smoke OF London. there is promo. iona
bly a greater excitement in the process, and q
few hyacinths in glasses over metropolt?n
chimney. piece, may be pitted agams In h1"si
bed of carnations the country ever produced -
Natural history, again, as 1t IS generality PnrSu
ed, what is il but most pompoOs inariIy -
a substitution Of sounds for ideas Of homcu-
clature for knowledge? With the exception al
a very few men Of real science, almost und"rn
ly inhabitirg great cities, your observers OF
the loves Of the cock-chafers, the Paul Prys
into tne mysteries of the cryptogamlc Hymen,
are for the most part the heaviest mortais
that breathe. Ay, but what say YOU to books!
Why, | say that you may read books IN ~"
country as well as in the town-H you can gFt
them 10 read: bat then when that is the cast, |
do no, see why man should be obliged 10 go
into Punishment for the sake Of read pg. whlle
he may do il with much less abstraction IN a
two pair Of stairs back lodging in Lmcoln''-ln"
or he Temple.
There is one conclusive answer TO all the
preceding argument of the intellectually OF 4
close intercourse with Mature PRAY. sir, did
You ever pass On evening with knot of mere
country gentlemen? because, If not, have; aud
promise you, greater set OF hores, "iny cor
yersalon never coDed withal." Thr;r 'slk ;
ever OF their ha,ks, and dogs, or IRA d ipry
Jobs, Of poachers, oc Impossible Nu1c"auarn
leaps and shots bv rnras parties I'D spares a.
election uahbles, and 81 all the p'rsona''.i"'
births deaths, and marriages, dispp e / ' pr'
cedencc, and warnings "a pre- serves. "a zen
miles round. A stranger w3o dg'N> INTO spch
a company, is rs comple,eiy thrdvn out ~ III
conversation or u:,,lrystnnd.n5s, as a y, y 4.
lander a, a lecture on The atomic th"oty. OF a
man of sense Al the - i;n~s nt tie Roy,l Lie
rary Society. How V-a5is zoe c&;stsa"e really
is, TO these unfortuulrsS. may " seen, n The
dulness Of their houses, ~ the hea nhss -! tteir
looks, in their early going 10 bed, and t"eIr
"sleeping on benches in the afl rnoOn:" 20 say
nothing OF the relief they experience from two
sermons, and an evening lecture on Sund Us.
with the long commentary on the.- actompa
nying events. "NIr. 4. sa' in the O. pew; won
der what that means" "Thc N's aye all IN
deco mourning; another tgdcv, no do"h'.
"Doubletex, has preached tina, ser.no" I'LL am
tired Of hearing it, Ii has served for a charity
sermon, funeral, apd a general fast, with the
sole alteration Of The citation from scripture "
But enough. Ifthis is intellectual life, give me
a city feast, o. meeting Of creditors.
TWAS observed in France, that sobleman
could not spend six months on his estate, With
out losing much Of the polish and refinement
of the court; and s2lemnly declare, that when
nv neighbours, old Cash and his wife and
daughters, return from their trip 10 Worthing.
(it is.pot altogether so bad with Brighton) thy
seem to be quite another sort ofcreatures. Not
trace of the 5eaSr esprit ofFinsbury remains
on their persons. Their ideas are as sun-hnrn'
as their faces; and should not be surprised 10
hear Of their being brset BY the pickpoo kf,s IN
in Fret street, as so many country puns what
can be more conclusive against country lille,
than the pains universally taken TO make all the
summer retreats of our banished oi'rzens as
like the town as possible, and 10 Danish by eve
nv imaginable device, all change oil an intrusion
of rural ideas? Go 10 Chelenham anu Lean
ington, To Brighton or Nargate. 10 two pt a.
are more alike, Than these are 80 London " here
you viii find balls, promensd.s 5, theatres; and
hackney coaches and pastry cooks. and netho-
dist meetings, and jewellers, and news rooms
AID hair dressers; aud am osar,ilr convinced,
that ere long we shall hear even OF a stock TX
change If this does not convince, nothing On
earth will. In leaving London, country is the
las, thing folks think about. Cefum non n"i
mum nuiani By sos, OF Common co.'s. al,
r. a.. A. 1rar t..,r atl.