Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-02-10
From the S1tm dan Bulletin.

How many sensibliities and tender emotions
are exclted-how many poignant reflections
may be conveyed 10y single word! One idea
may call up thousand 20 delight or agonlze,
and the most expressive and energetic that
language affords, either to soothe or TO tor
ment, is the sylla
He who is best in his domestic relations,
amidst the distractions of business, and the
insults or the ingratitude of selfish world,
consoles hitaself with the reflec lion that he
will meet with reeompense for all his tolls
and isappointments--at home.
He who is engaged in distant occupations,
in the pursuit Of gain, or in the investigation
of science, pleases himself with the idea that
he will find some dear deserving connexions
to participate his good fortune, or to whom
he may impart his knowiedge-at home.
While the cup OF innocent pleasure invites
| the taste; while the charms Of society enlyen
( the hour, the moments oil reflection are most
| delightfully."- filled up, IN every feeling heart,
| by the still greater endearments which await
it--at home
| When the storms OF life or of the clements
overtake Us as we are journeying on; though
the first may penetrate TO the heart, and the
latter chill the vital frame, they cannot wholly
overcome him who is able 10 reflect that hc
has some one to feel for h.m, or to take care
oil him ct h0,ns.
All the various pursuits in which every hu
man being, who has any rational aim, 10 en-.
gagged, tend to single point, and that Is, TO
be happy and beloved-at home
How wretched, then must he be, who. TN
der the pressure Of calamity, the tyranny OF
wrong, ans the suilernSs OF inGrulity, has no
kind compani0n--at hons.
How can he struggle with fortune and not
despond, who knows that all his toll, and all
his care. and all his solcitude, find no CRATE
iul recompense-Gt home?
Wretched is that man, though he may be
the object of envy or applause, though thu
public may hail his name with deserved hon
or, and cali him blessed, who feels the yacu
ity of reciprocal tenderness at-his home.
Wretched man that is who cannot enjoy
, the friends he loves, nor the society in whi,l
-; he delights, nor even his own natural an'
t rational plessures-dt hOrSe.
| ! Wretched is that man who, expendinI
: health and renouncing pleasure fer the SAX
4, OF his domestic ties. meet only with the gal
E of bitterness, and domestic broil-at home.
a Wretched is that man whose heart throb
E with benevolence for all, whose bosom pant
, to give and receive felicity III the circle OF hi
5 duties, who has no congenlal mind, no tende
d friend, no affeetionate parncr-at home.
In fine, as the prime blessings Of life, or tn
most aggravated ills, arise from demesti
# intercourse and relations, Of how great i'm
5 portance is il to enter into such associations
r. and to form such connexions, as are cspabl
+ ofcaihng forth all the finer sensations Of tn
Q soul, and OF bunting the edge Of the mos
Il oppressive ills at home.
p Happiness depends neither on fortune nc
: on fame; it is neither attached to the palace
c nsr despises the cottage; neither delights il
p dnery, nor spurns at patches, but is alone
+ be found or missed, to be enjsyed or lament
p ed. in the retirement, whether splendid o
+ mean, OF domestic life and HOME.