Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-05-01
APPEARANCE OF RorIIscIr1p
fFon He "SecOnd Judgment of Bnblor IRE (,y.t,, b
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Sceptlc go to the Royal Exchange almost any
morning that you please, and among some score q;
persons, whose appearance will not very greatly Gle
Vate your notions of the dignity and grace of Human
nature, You Will ser one whose tcn and tirure
alke battle your powers of descrip. II; and his whole
vulgar tetrastIciI.
vi do not like thee, Doctor Fol,
The fac, itself feel full we'll
90 not Ike thee, DoctorI'el."
Tfe thing before you stands cold motion,s and an.
parenty specnatoncss the pillar salt into which
the avaricious spouse of the Patr.rch was turned:
dud "he you start with wonder at what it can be or
mean, you pursue the association, and think upon the
hro and birthstone that we're raned down r. is q
human being of no very ApoJlo-likc form or f,ce
snort squat, with its shoulders drawn up to its oars
ana ms hands de1vcd into his breaches pockets The
hue OF lis face is Il mixture of brckdust and saffron
and the texture seems that ofthe skin of dead froo
There is rigldity and tension in the features ton
which you'd make you fancy. if YOU did no 500 t,,,
that were not the fact, that some one from behind
was pnch1g it with pair of hot tones And that !,
were either ashamed afraid TO tell. Ewes are ,sI
ally depominated the windows of the SOM; b,r, bero
you Wond conclude that the windows are false ones
or hat sheFe was no soul TO look out at them There
comes not one pencil of light from the Interior moi
tlfer is there one scnilatfOn of that which comes
from without reflected in any direction The whole
puts you III mind OF ga skin TO let, and yo, wonder
Why II stands upright, without at least sometime
Witnin. by aud by another figure comes I'D to it,.
1t then steps two PAGES aside aud the most ncns;
1--WE Slancc that ever You saw, and glance more in
Hnsltlve than you would have thourbt of * drou,,,
slowly out OF the crCWhile fixed and leadcn owe nc Il
one were drawing sword from a scabbard The
iHitllg Dgurc' winch has the appearance Of coming
ny accae9t ana not by design, stops but SECOND or
two IN the course Of which looks are excl.noeJ
WHICH though you cannot translate You feel ,nnsf no
Oh most important meaning. After these the evcs
arc sneathed up again, and the figure resumes its s,o
DDriu kI,
ters come, all OF whom meet with similar recenfon
Hj'n VANISH III similar manner; and last Of ali the
hSure user Vanses, leaving you utterly at loss rs
To what can be its nature and functions
nat singular figure is Nathan Myres Rotbsrbild
the Jew, who holds the purse to all the kinrs an Ill.,
continent and opens or closest Just as he lists: and
VINO, upon certain occasions has been srnnoscd m
nave more influence in this country than tie proud
est aud most wealthy gifts nobles--perhaus moro in
huence than the two Houses Of Parliament taken to-
gclher lie takes that post to be in the midst Of his
scputeS those visitors who appear to come casraly
are all there by appointment They communicate bcir
information, receive their Instructions and hasten to
act; and probably of eaah application of thorn IN tho
grand calculating machine it was wicd that a mil
non vi money should change masters or that q pot
enGite who calls himself absolute should alter his
purpose dSWss lfls minister, or change the system oF
his politics. Unnainly as his external rnnn ;e and
detached it eeemsfrom business. and inc.nabIo
OF thought 1t is the of perhaus the most curl
ons' ana certainly the most powerful calclatpr ma
chine tbat ever eXi stcd.
Inc prodfgies of calculation which have from
time to time been exhibited all sink into NOTHING he
9Fe diis one They could play with nurnbess in n
manner wonderful enough, no doubt; but their plav
was unPfcductive,wss nothing but meteor marvel to
DC soon iorgof mt this Yields the purse Of the world
and by means ofthat all the poyyers in i, Ill.,
t?p' with the lntuitiye magic Of numbers which this
singular beng possesses, there must be magic over
tleT ass'ons OF men; but what it is or how It works
'He pdssefsor WI no. an. and nobody else csV