Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-04-29

SOldClOn IN Cl6 circumstance CIaC lneMlSCO-
cles and Ovid, Cicero and Bolingbroke, had
tasted the bitter waters of exile before her.
She sighed for a return, and rejoiced when
the fall of the Terror of the Nations, restor-
ed her to her throne amid the gay, sparkling,
and literary circles of the metropolis. To
the few, very few of high intellectual cast,
the excitement of numerous society becomes
by use necessary as a daily aliment. Still,
beings so constituted are in fact better able
to pursue their career, and to retain the vi
gour and elasticity of their minds, in compa-
rative seclusion than those who are lower in
the scale of intelligence. Persons of COM
mon minds, who live more in sensation than
reflection, and who have been accustomed
to wide range of associates, cannot live
out of the crowd. Throw them upon their
resources, you make them miserable. They
have nothing within to compensate for the
loss of external society, if it may so be call
ed. In sickness or health, veal or woe,
they are uneasy and restless-oftentimes
wretched when left to themselves. In town
or country there are advantages and disad-
vantages. GOOD made the country y and
by this may be understood that the works of
nature are chief objects of regard and rever-
ence. By love of nature and the country is
not meant the babblimg Of green fields, by some
silly boarding-school Miss, or soft dying
swain, tinged with the sickly hue of what is
so often by sad misnomer called sentiment
and romance, and should be called affecta-
ton and nonsense far from 1.-THE real love
of nature lies deep in the human breast,
mingling with the best feelings, and expand
ing them too, giving new charm to life,
and raising, by refining, the whole character.
There is nothing in it impure, nothing I'M
holy; it can hardly exist in a depraved mind,
for its tendency is to elevate, to carry the
thoughts to the very source and first principle
of all things, to God himself. If the sensu-
alist does feel it, it is but momentary glow,
and is soon forgotten in the pleasure of ma
terial existence: or if he cherishes it, it inn
proves him and makes him better man.
What is there that can compensate for
the beauties of nature; the vale and noun
tain, full streams, the earth teeming with
its productions, the blossom, the green fields,
and leaves, the rich variety of fruits, the
" interminabfe wood" the freshness of the
air, the music of the birds, the gorgeous an-
parel of the trees in the fall, whole forests
glittering in the winter-sunbeams, and COW
cred with the dazzling whiteness of the ice,
and giving forth every colour of the rainbow,
amid the dreary waste of the season? ALI
these and many more go to form land
scape splendid and various, that the inhabi-
tants of cities know not of, cooped upas they
are, their prospect for summer and winter
bounded on the one side by dusky bricks,
on the other side by dusky bricks, the ground
under their feet concealed by paving stones,
their lungs and eyes annoyed with coal
smoke, which they breathe in after it has
been breathed by thousands of others,
their in-comings and out-goings known by
every body-if they open window on one
side of the street, keenly scrutinized and
overlooked by neighbour who opens his
window on the opposite side, continually
annoyed by the rafting of coaches, wagons,
and what not,-and wholly shut out from
the world, properly so called.
This exemplifes, though family, the
proposition, man made the town." There
is much vain show, and apparent love of the
beauties of nature, where the real feeling
has no existence. Where it does exist, it
is seldom lost; it enters into the man and
dwells with him. 1t is ever present as
source of tranquil enjoyment, and of graft
tude to the Most High. 1t carries with it
nothing of passion, nothing that stirs up the
elements of strife, and sets man at variance
against his fellow. It's influence, on the
the other hand, is of kind that ministers
to good. He who has once felt it does not
willingly again shut himself up within brick
walls, to do and to suffer all that town life
requires. He experiences there sense of
circumscription and confines" and longs
to escape from his prison-house, and breathe
the fresh air, and look abroad over creation,
and become subject to the sweet influences
that lay fast hold of him. X.
[To BE Continued
The following is from an English paper,
and shows the extent of ecclesiastical OPP
preston in ireland -
Inc land in the possession Of the Bishops amounts