Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-09-18
SELECT PROVERBS.

SELECT PROVERBS.
Lawyers houses are built on fools heads
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
Less of courtesy, and more Of your coin.
Look before you leap--for snakes among
sweet flowers creep.
Lockers on see more than players.
Many soldiers are brave at table, who are
towards in the field
Many 90 out for wool, but return shorn.
Much would have more, and lost all.
Never scald your lips in other folks broth
Never quit certainty for hope.
One might as we'll be out Of the world as
be beloved by nobody in it,
One eye witness is better than ten hear
says.
One fool in house is enough in all con-
science.
One beats the bush and another catches
The bird.
Praise without profit, puts little in the
pocket,
Pride goes before and shame follows after
Say well is good, but do we'll is better.
The BtB1E.-Sir w. Jones, most ac-
complisbed scholar, who had made himself
acquainted with eight and twenty languages,
has left it on record, that amidst all his pur-
suits the study of the Sacred Volume had
been his constant habit. Sir Isaac Newton,
the greatest of mathematiclans, was a dill
gent student of the Bible. Mr. Locke, a man
of distinguished acuteness in the study of
the human mind, wrote to recommend the
study Of the New Testament, as having
'sGod for its author, salvation for its end, and
Al. 4 a., "a
Milton the greatest Of poets evidently had
his mind most deeply mbued with the study
of the word of God. Boerhave, eminent as
a natural philosopher, spent the first hour of
every day in meditation on the sacred pages.
Here no man can say that he has not leisure
A most benlhcent institution Of our Creator
has given US, for this duty, a seventh part of
our time, one day in very week, one whole
year out of every seven.
ExTRAcT.-In all eases it is wise to pro-
coed upon settled and admitted principles.
first, because we then more clearly under
stand our duty and our object; and, second
ly, because the clear comprehension Of such
principle at once directs US to the best means
and limits their application and extent In
public, as in private conduct, to act upon
loose, general, and vague views, upon single
impulses and upon indistinct and confused
perceptions, is to act loosely, uncertain
ly, and unwisely; to expose ourselves to the
necessity Of perpetual change, and to impair
our character for wisdom and gravity by an
apparent inconsistency of purpose.
A friend of league was arraigned for
stealing goose, but he having brought a
neighbor to swear, positively, that he renem-
bered that very goose in his possession ever
since she was goslin, got off, Pat after
this, being himself brought up for stealing a
gun, recolecting this able defence, prevailed
on fellow coGntryman to swear he remem-
bered the gun in his possession ever since it
was pistol.
ANEcDoTE.-"F Friend Franklin" said
Elijah Tate, "a celebrated Quaker LAWYER, OF
Phladelphia, one day, "thee knows almost
every thing; can thee tell me how am to
preserve my small beer in the back ward
"Put barrel Of old Madeira by the side OF
it," replied the Dr. "let them but get a taste
ofthe Madeira, and I'll engage they will ne.
yer trouble thy small beer any more'
Let not Sleep saidPy thagoras, fall on thy
eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed thy trans
actions Of the past day. Where have turn,
ed aside from rectitude? What have been
doing? What have left undone, which
ought to have done? Begin this from the
first act, and proceed, and in conclusion, al
the ill thou hast done be troubled, and rejoice
for the goood."
A GOOD oNB.-"Mister, (said Johnny
Raw from New-Jersey, who lately visited the
office of the Eastern Argus,) don't folks pay
for the paper without dunnen? guess fl
was Printer, I'd tickle 'em with an oat straw
Why father takes paper, and I've heard
him tell mother he'd Just as life cheat the
Parson as the Printer"
'Leave me alone," said young lady to
a gentleman, who was romping with her
"Never," he replied. "my dear, till | die will
l LEAVE YOU A LOAN"