Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1833-01-11

Il lotc He hIst VI SdHudIy pHsate NH"}
This, we are aware, is easier said than
done. But il is good advice; and we sliall
tender no wishes Of happiness 10 The dan
who refuses 10 take Il, knowing that such
wishes must be utterly in vain.---P lliloso.
pliers may dispute about the ckief gobds
and poets may sing Of cottsges, md innun
tains, and peaceful Wales; but our defai.1
milton Of happy mon is very hfief--i. u :
man oat Of debt. The man that is hreEis 4
ed by dun, is in worse condition tsle0
het who ia haunted by Ehost;-@IssFF
1 Elle one refninda Yes Ubiy Of oSfs' IN I
and tho other, Of what Is much snfse, g6rif |
misfortunesi and all men Of spifit, tFp t4ke
it, fegafd ssnisforiuns as worse ila a
crime. Besides, it is possible 10 lay a |
ghost, (though here we speak from here
say, never having had the privilege 10
see one oufselycs,) but none Of The fests
Of legerdemain; none of the auauntf of
tragedy, can conjure dun into the Red
Sea. He follows you like a shadow, and
Whit is very unreasonable, breaches his
doctrines most approximately to you, when
you are least likely to profit by them.--
Think, gentle reader, then, of the dun,
that
Horrible monstcr,
Hated Of gods and mem
and prevent his importantly bS paying
your debts.
Does any ask, hov this is 10 ho done'
lis perfectly feasible--as Shakespeare Guys,
cit is as easy as lying" Many people
seem TO think that getting out Of debt
is as hard as it would be TO break out
of the States Prison but wo hold no
such doctrines; and we are astonished
that many worthy citizens, ,freemen by
birth, can go through life, crouching and
cringing, promising to-day, and breaking
the promise to-morrow;-threatened here
81 pushed there;--when the adoption of one
simple rule might deliver them from their
bondage, and vindicate their rights to the
glorious liberty of Americans, purchased
> by the blood of Warren, and the struggle
of Bunker Hill. Indeed, we grow clio.
quent on this theme. And now attend, We
) knights of the shabby coat and undarned
stockings; We shiverers and shakers; ye
promise-makers and promise-breakers; ye
J. poor victims Of lawyers letters and catch.
pole claws;--attend, while we sing the ant
of paying debts. it is not found in the
i folios of law, or in the learned pages sef
= Goke npop Ivftleton. II lies urapped up in
one little maxim, which we haufFcfwE.issss
II pectable grandmother, whose green hai<e
6 gown and horn spectacles were at once ar
n ornament and proof OF the doctrine she
Sc taught" before you spend a copper, earn
y a "copper"" Blessed maxinl And bles
s sed be the memory of her whose eloquenct
d taught, and whose example enforced it.
Give car, my children, to my law,
Ut Which you have dearly bought
1t Lay up my words within your mind,
e And print them in your thought.
Ne,o England Primer, Boston Ed,
}. N. D. Nothing that is above said, mus
& be supposed to apply to those great bank
Is rupts, who make their fortunes by bccom
r- ing unable to pay their debts. We wisl
a them more than happy new year; We
s wish them transported.
10 ii. In the second place, We advise al
], substantial squircs, fat aldermen, gentle
Of men boardeIs in the city and out to ca
y less this year in about the proportion Of
&c 10 speak alphabetically and learnedly--on'
minus thIee-fourths. We have found
I'd from deep and careful investigation, tina
US human happiness does not consist in entini
of and drinking: or, if this seems too strong
TO las no doubt it will TO many Of the practl
lie cal philosophers of the present day. Vs.
IL do hold it to be sound philosophy that
IL man may cat and drink too muchs True
lie it must be granted, the opposite syster
n. may last fol awhile. When one enters
o. boarding house and sees a fine table
n spread with smoking plum pudding, an
ii. brown roasted turkey; excellent oyster
IN sauce; the cranberry jelly; the pickles
y, and the warm bread streaming flesh lror
te the oven, one is inclined TO say, F." A fig 70
or Hitchcock and his dyspeptical books; lie
Ii. VA - I-;-,i., aha.esh .fnortow we die.
lis But then the blue devils will came. M
a man ever despised them long with impun
is ty. Such awful imaginings; such blac
i'm siins; every chest looks like coffin; an
sr- the laugh of your best friend seems lik
,ar the grin Of spectre. o, the horrors c
too full a belly! 1t has been the source {
sh half the querulous eloquence that has re
; | sounded Though the world. DIR. Johnso
ey wrote his Rasselas to prove that man mus
all be miserable. We have heard many pee
ce ple say, "Poor man! we wish he coul
TO have been more fostered by patronage, an
re-? could have taken less discouraging view
ee of human life." If any one wishes, how
hi ever, to write mautlin poetry, or pathet
th ic novel, he has our free permission to feas
for three months at a full table.
, N. B. If any one is in the habit of keep
lat ing brandy bottle in his closet, he is ad
all vised forthwith TO break it.
to Some in the ditch spoiled are, yea, can
lis Lie tumbling in the mire;
,e. Some, though they shun the fryingpan,
Do Leap into the fire.
Pilgrims Progress, PIT. 2, Pr 303 Brattleborough
ofl III In the third Mace we advise a