Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-02-04
From the London Quarterly Review.
CHARACTER OF PALEY.

II was the Sabine simplicity OF Paley's mind,
which quite unified him for being respects,
er Of persons The pomp, the Circumstance,
the chivalry Of rank were lost upon him. He
had touch in him Of Peter B-Il:-
ga primrose on the rivers brim,
A yellow primrose was to hun,
And it was nothing more
When the idea of king presented itself to
Paley, il was merely that of an individual in.
vested with great substantial power, TO be wei.
ded for the benef of his people. Crown and
,ceptre, beef-ea,ers, state. coaches and guards
men, the trappings, in short OF royalty,dId not
enter into its elements. Not that he aft cted
contempt Of such matters, for hr knew human
nature too we'll to think that they were I" be
despised; but they were not matters 10 make a
nv inprrssio on his mind: 10 use an ergra-
vrr's phrase, they would not bite. He preach.
es before the Judges and grand jury; wigs,
trumpets, javelins, white wands, oil vanish
way al once, and he sees nothing before him
but set Of fallbis men, allied upon by their
country TO rule with diligence; and he suggests
to thrm the true principle, aud exhorts them
faithfully with all his power. He delivers an
other sermon to the younger clergy:-He is
nothing moved by the gowns, cass"cks, and
clerical apparatus which Offer themselves TO
Of like passions as others, and with some temp.
talions Of 'hel, own, needing a6monltion; and
admonition he gives them, with hearty good
will no, TO be mistaken: "Mimic not the vices
Of higher life; hunt not after great acquain-
tance;" "be sober, be chaste;" "kerp gu, Of
public houses" "learn to live alone;" "divide
! your sermons into he sds-it may be dispensed
within the hands Of master; in yours, the want
| Of it will produce bewidered rhapsody
These are very homely maxims, and COM eyed
in very homely phrases; yet there is no assump-
zion Of authority in il at all, no desire 10 give
offence, no acrimony, no suspicion Of the char
| acrer Of the hearers. II was simply The plain
| speech Of a single hearted man, earnest in his
calling, looking upon different stations a mere
| ~ bringing gu, differrn types of mans nature,
which Was rsdIfaly us same ~ all and, N,
tnctions, that, whether his congregation were
gentle or simple, peasants or Drebends, CITY or
Village, Pale. would give them the very same
sermon in the very same words LIE; US not
make him politician against his will, against
the general evidence Of lis life and pursuits
| In his serious hours he was occupird, abund
an,lv occupied, in concerns for clergyman
more appropriate aud for any man more weigh
~.
ale never seemed to know" saws his son.
"th, he deserved tue anne # politician. and
would pronabIy have been rquay amused a,
| the grave attempts made 10 d aw him into, or
withdraw him from, any poll ical bias"
He would employ himself in his Natural
Theoioev, and then ga,,eI his peas for dinner,
,ery likely gathering ome hint for his work
| AZ The same time T.. would converse with
hi. classic al n, ighbour Mr. Yates, or I've would
reply to his invi alton ha, he could moi come,
for Ina, he was busy lpittng He would sta
ton him ,elf a: his gallen wall, which over
hung tic river, and wath The progress ola cast
iron bridge in building, asking questions Of he
archi,ec, ard carefully rxs mining every pin
and screw with which i was put together.
He would loi,er along river, with his angle
rod, musing upon wha,he supposed 10 pass
in he mind of pike WIN he biz, and when he
refused 10 bic; or he Wild stand by the sea-
sid, AID speculate upotN hat young shrimp
could mean by jumplngn the sun.
'Wuh the handle of atck in his mouth he
won move about his arden in short hur-
ried step, now stopping Q contemplate but>
,erflv, a flower, or a soa, and now earnestly
eng aerd IN some new arrigements of his flows
cr pots
ii 4 would take f,om lsown table TO his stu
DIV the bone of hare or f,h's head, add he
would pull gu, OF his rker, alter walk, 4
, plant or stone to be msdtfibutary 10 an argu
mrnt His manuscripse ere as motley as his
occupations-,he wo'ks'p of he mind was e.
yer ON the aler,; eVidrnG.mxed W win me
morandums for his WILL p Interesting discus.
, sion br"ught 10 an untinsy end by The hiring
Of servants, the letting fields, sending his
boys TO school, r-pro,inthe refractory mt m
b-rs Of an hospital; here irdica ion, there one
D of hi. ohiidren's exercis--in ano her place a
eceip, for cheap soup. le would amusr his
FIRE side by family aneo d. how one ut his
ancestors (and he was p:sed as pattern Of
perseverance, separa ed q mound, Of white
and black pepper which ghe-n accidentally
mixed-p III MS pulvers, .zmighI truly have
! added; and how, when II Palsy Arms were
wanted, recourse was h de fani y tsnkard
which was supposed to b. III m, but which
he always took maicro pleasure III insist
! ing had been bought a, 2
I tHsc est
Vita solutoum misera amlcne grav;que;"
i. the life Of a man far morhappily employed
than in The composition ooh,it al Pamphlets,
or in the nurture uf polItiodtsconlent. Nay,
| when his friend MIR Csrly 44about going ou, |