Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-12-09
THE PLEASURES OF A CULTIVAs
TED VACCINATIONS STEWART.

The attention OF young persons may be SEA-
duced, by well selected works of fiction, from
the present objects of the senses, and the
thoughts accustomed to dwell on the past. the
distant or the future; and in the same propor-
ton in which this effect is, in any instance, acA
the man, as Dir. Johnson has Just.
lily remarked. is exalted in the scale of intellec.
tual beings The tale of fiction will probably
be soon laid aside with the toys and rattles of
infancy; but the habits which it has contribu-
ted to fix, and the powers which it has brought
into state of activity, will remain with the
possessor, perm ,nent and inestimable treasures
TO his latest hour.
| Nor is it to the young alone that these OBJ
servations are to be exclusively applied. In
ais, in whom the power ofimagination has, at a
more advanced period of life, been found sus-
ceptble of culture to a wonderful degree. In
such men, what an accession is gained to their
most refined pleasures! What entertainments
are added to their most ordinary perceptionsN
The mind awakening, as if from trance, tc y
I new existence, becomes habituted to the most
interesting aspects of life and of nature; the
intellectual eye 8 is purged of its flm:'and
things the most familiar and unnoticed, dis
close charms invisible before.
i The same objects and events which were
lately beheld with Indifference, occupy now all
trast between the present and the past serving
only to enhance and to endear so unlocked for
an acquisition. What Gray has so finely said
of the pleasures ofviciasifudes, conveys but a
faint image of what is experienced by the man,
, who, after having lost in vulgar occupations 8;
vulgar amusements, his earliest and most pre-
cious years, is thus introduced at last to a new
i heaven and a new earth;
: : The meanest Howeret of the vale,
e The simplest note that swels the, gale,
I'll The common sun, the air. the skies,
al To him are opening Paradise"
: The efforts of foreign travel have been often
e remarked, not only in rousing the curiosity Of
II the traveller while abroad, but in correcting,
after his return, whatever habits of inattention
n he had contracted to the institutions and man
= ners among which he was bred, 1t is in . way
: somewhat analogous, that our occasional ex-
10 cursions into the regions Of imagination, in.
e. creases interest in those familier realities
,el from which the stores of imagination are bor-
dlrowed We learn insensibly to view nature
r. with the eye Of the painter and the poet and to
nj seize those attitude of things. which their
,e taste at first selected; while, enriched with the
4 laccumulations of ages, and with the spols Of
Vi time we unconsciously combine with what We
= see all that we know and all that we feel; and
n sublime the organical beauties of the materia
world, by blending with them, the inexhausti
ofble delights of the heart and of the fancy.
if A clergyman in the west of England bein
he supposed at the point of death, a neighborin
Jeff brother, who had some interest with his patron
ir. applied for the next presentation; upon whic
We the former, who soon after recovered, upbraid
de ed him with the breach of friendship, and sal
So he wanted his death. mo, no, DOCTOR say
epl the other, you quite mistake me; it was you
,es living l wanted
in
ice The greatest hardship of poverty is, tn;
al it tends to make men ridiculous"