The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-12-20
THE GRAVE.

Ch ulC grave thG grave III Duf1eS every error
covers every defect; exnguishes every resentment.
From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets
and recollections who look down on the grave,
even OF an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb,
that ever he should have varied with the poor handful
OF earth that lies Wondering before him But the
grave of those love--what place for mediation
Then 1t Is we call up in long review the whole histo-
ny OF virtue and genteness and the thousand edear-
ments lavished upon us almost unheeded, in the daily
intercourse of intimacy-then it is we dwell upon the
tenderness the solemn and awful tenderness Of the
parting scene; the bed of death, with all the sied
grief its nolseess attendance its mute wachful as
sldultes; the last testimonies of expiring love; the
feeble tlutterng. oh how thrilling is the pressure
of the hand, the fond look of the gancng eve tlr-
ming upon us even from the threshold of existence
the FAINT taterlng accents struggling in death to give
one more of affection. Ay, 90 to the grave
of buried love and mediate There settle the account
with thy conscience of every past endearment unre
garded, of that departed being, who neyer-neyer--
can return to be soothed by contriton If thou art
child and hast ever added to the soul, or
urrow to the silvered brow of aectionate parent
If thou art husband, and hast ever caused the fond
bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms
to doubt moment of thy kindness or thy trutll-if
thou art friend, and hast ever wrongcd in thought OF
word or decd, the spirit that generously conlided in
thec-li thou art lover, and hast ever given one I'M
merited pang to the true heart tat now lies cold and
still heneath thy fect-hcn be sure that every unkind
lpok, every ugraclous word every ungcntie action.
VIII come tnonging back upon thy memory, and
knocking doleally thy sonl-then be sure that thou
wilt lie down scrrcWng and repentant on the grave,
and utter the unheard groan and pour the unayaing
tear, more bitter, because unheam and unavang
Washington Lring.
DISTINCTION BETWEEN MAN AND HIGHEST OR
DER OF ANIMALS.
the Christian Observer
Man alone reflects and reasons lie alone assists
f!ie operations of his understandings considers
his thoughts reviews the conduct Of his past life; re-
calls events. which time may have thrown its mel
lowing tns invested with the darkness of oblivion;
investigates his most secret motives carries his scr-
tiny where none but his and the piercing eye of
Omnsc1ence can penetrate passes Judgment upon
his own actions blames approves, praises or con-
dcmns; he alone it is who can remove from his mind
those ideas which might embarrass his progress, or
obstruct his pursuit after truth he alone possesses
the power of accommodating and preserving the result
of his medtaons, and of varously associating and
combining them, as to discover paths for the OPP
Grafton of his intelligence and by the aid of memory
and selection to render these several combinations a.
vaillbe for the government of himself, and for the
guidance and direction of his conduct towards Others
he alone, it is who possesses that internal principle
which informs him he shall never die; a principle
which, though imprisoned in material tenement, and
depending upon it for many of its manifestations, is
nevertheless immaterla and possesses independent
existence principle whose energies are now re-
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