The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-22
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Nt0thitiSs iif thS hSiius 1iis GolfIHuili- cation, fer aught We know, is inthc ssiin- #piieity Of yea, yea, aiitl llsY nay, hut when an object of private or nuhlie. charity is presented il Is for TO other cause than conscientious scruples, that he begins with nay, nay! lie is acon- stant at church with book Of wicked prayers ? in order ssto mend the world and to set the example Of piety te his neighhors, and te prove, like Holy Mil lie, S.burning and shining light b ali the place.
 "oh ye. wlla arc sac good yourscl,
 Sac pous and sac holy,
 I eve nought 10 do but mark afsi tell
 Your neighbor's faults and iolly.''
 The aHeetation of wealth is another common and dangerous 1nisfortune.- Many persons, otherwise respectable, have often rendered themselves very poor and very ridiculous, by affecting the styleand living oftheirmofe wealthy neighbors. Now, forinstance, Mrs. Puff gives route where one hundred people are nearly jammed to death, at the cost of only one hundred dollars, why, then, to be sure, Mrs. Puffy, in the plcn- titude of her wealth, is in duty bound to give another, where two hundred peo- 1 pie are to suffer the miseries of the black hole of Calcutta. and Ut the ex- pense of two hundred dollars. And so l 1t is, that if Mrs. Puff have an article of fancy, that cost sixty dollars, Mrs. Puffy must have one forthwith at hundred, dts hardest work of man alive.
 10 make three guineas go for lives
 and so do Mir. and Mrs. fu1y find it: for at last ugly creditors demand their dues, and--the rest is obvious.
 But if there are some who are made poor by the aiicctation of wealth, there are others who make themselves des- picable by an ailectation of poverty. A. mong such, aslovenlnessof dress coarse hess of manners, q contempt for the common courtesies and distinction of life, and moreover loud and persevcr- ing lamentations oyer loss. expensesan ruin, arc characteristics eswhiclaremeant to indicate superior wisdom. ItWoulsl be an excellent lesson for these grdsi- piers actually to suffer for q little Whiie the miseries and depriyations they af- feet to experience. Such af3eetation is nothing but insulting and ungrateful mockery. And then there is a mawk- ish aifeetation of sensibility and senti- mentalisln; a sort of half fool suscepti- biiity of mind and nerve, that secs the ssalr drawn dagger" in a common pitch- fork, and that places the posscssor ii an imaginary region, far above the con- mon feelings, the common business, and the common sense of thc world. peo~ Ip pie may be too sublimated for a world 1 like ours, which, as King Richard says. we must ''bustle in.7 If by any mis- fortune you were bleeding to death, you could expect no relief from sucli per- sons: because they ssowe you no sub scription,' and because they would faint away at the sight of a drop of ..Chris- tain blood;'' and more than all, because they might injure their green dress or as Shakespeare says, make s'the green one red" Exquisite sensibility is en- ployed in pouring day and night over the wanton pages of the sssentimentap' Werter, the blasphemous raying of the tender Rosseau, or the fee-faw-fnm non- sense of the delectabie Della Crusca. Acts of mercy are too commonplace for sensibility. And then there is aa aflectation of almost every thing under the sun, an affectation in writing and talking, walking and riding, laughing and crying, and in eating and dressing. One person writes insall the possderossty of Johnson, another pnnshes puns, and a third jingles through the alphabcr without ailiteration's artfal aid.
 One lisps i'll modest childishness, and tanotfer busters like sforln in zwinter- Some persons speak IS though their lounges were burnt, and others as # they had teazle in their throat.-- ] One man sports small hat with never a crown, and another recreates his head with hat without brim, for the salv. Of notoriety. One person writes yc.. :. letter you cannot read, and consequent. + cannot answer. In short, there is no end to aficctation.
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