Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-02-04

head quarters oil despo,ism, we do not perceive,
.monrs, the multitude Of most characteristic
hints and queries which Paley addresses 70
him, a single ding at the Turk, or single nope
EXPRESSED that the day was not very dis'ah'
when the Cossacks would be permitted to erect
the S andard of liberty in his capital.
Il will do YOUR VISITATION for you, Mr.. Gar.
lyte was ChaneelI of the diocese) in case OF
YOUR absence, with the greatest pleasure-t Is
neither difficulty nor favor. -
- sObser, anda--l. Compare every Thing WIN
English and Cumberland scenery: e. E. rivers
with Eden, groves with Cor5y, mountains win
Skiddaw; your sensations of buildings, streets,
persons, ST.. &c: e. & whether the Mu'" oe
like Dr. the Grand Seignior, Mr. -.
q Give us one day at Constanilnopie, MI
nute.y from mo rning to night, what you DO, see
eat and drink
"a Le, us know what the common people
have to dinner; get, if you can, a peasants &C
tual dinner and bottle, for instance, IL you see
a man working in the fields, call TO him to bring
the dinner he has with him, and describe IL
/ infinitely.
a The diversions Of the common people,
whether they seem 10 obey their amusements,
and be hspry and spor, and laugh; farm houses
or any thing answering TO them, and of what
IS. Their shops; how you get your breeches
m, nded, or things done for you, and how, =. e..
well or i'll 'one;) whether you see the tailor,
converse with him, &c.
e. Get mo the inside Of cottage; describe
furniture, utensils, what you 6ud actually doing.
.All the s,pulations l make with you for do
ing your visitations is, that you come over to
Wearmou,h soon after your return, foi you will
be very entertaining between ruth and lying
I have notion that you will find books, but In
great confusion as to catalogues, CHASING, &c.
& Describe infinitely how You pass one day
on ship-board; lcarn to take and apply lunar or
othey observations, and how the midshipmen,
| sc. dc it.
sWhat sor, of fi,h you get, and how dressed.
should think your business would be TO make
yourself master Of the Greek. My compli-
mrnts to Bonapare, if you mret with him,
which think is very likely. Pick up little ar
,cles of dress, tools, furniture, especially from
low lfe-as an actual smock, &c.
| g VIVA, they talk about company.
80. Describe your impression upon first see
ing ,hings; upon catching the first view OF
Constanrinop-; the novelties Of the fist day
you pass there.
In all hr countries and climstes, nations and
languages, carry with you the best wishes OF,
dear Carlyle,
'Your sffectionate friend,
| wv. PALEY.'
Such was Paley. A man singuIsriy without
guile and vet often mis4uGers 'ood or misrepre-
sen,ed; man who was thought to have no
learning, brcause he had no pedaniry, and wno
was too little of quack TO be reckoned PHI
losopher; who would have bfen intallibly prais
ed as a usefu, writer on the theory OF govern
men,, If he had been more visionary, and would
have been esteemed deeper divine, 1t he had
no, been always so ineieibl~; who has bren
sffu 1ss,g RfEsF
seem, who WIRE not to he trusted with joke;
who did not deal much in pro,estations of his
faith, counting il proof enough of his sincerity,
1--WE are ashamed Of noticing, even thus far, in
Situations against ii) 20 bring arguments for
the truth Of Christianity unanswered and un-
answerabe-to pour forth celebrations TO the
fu6ment Of the duties en- oned by it, the most
solemn and intense and to evinee his own
praical sense Of its influence, by browning his
| labors with work to the glory and praise Of
God, at season when his hand was heaviest
upon him;-a work which lives, and ever will
live, to testify that no pains Of body could
shake Cor a moment his firm and settled per
suasion that in every thing, and in every crisis,
we are Gods creatures; that life is passed in
His constant presence, and that death resigns
US 10 His mere iful" disposal.