Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-02-21
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''We can learn nothing from the liv-
ing, which the dead do not teach us.
Would beauty be modest and unpretend-
ing, let her quit the the ball and the fes
tlyal for a moment, and carry her toilet
to the tomb. Would the proud learn
humility; the resentful good nature; the
penurious, charity; the frivolous serious
ness; the bigoted philanthropy; would
the scholar ascertain the true objects of
knowledge; the man Of the world the
true means of happiness, here and here
after; and the ambitious the true sources
of greatness, let him retire a while from
the living and commune with the dead.
We must all come to the mournful, silent
level of the grave. Our bones must
minglo in one commonmass. Our afec-
tions should travel the same path, for
they must terminate in one fearful issue.
Life is full of facilities, of virtue and of
happiness; and when you would neglect
or abuse them, 60 and purify youraffec-
tons and humble your pride, and elevate
your hopes, at the tomb of afriend, when
the stars shining upon it like the glorious
beams of religion on the mansion of
death.
He that writes what he should speak,
and dares not speak what he writes, is
either like wolf in sleeps clothing or
like a sheep in VOLTS skin.
THE DEAD OF l832.-A great num-
Der of distinguished men have this year
bowed before the sentence, ''Dust thou
art and unto dust thou shalt return"
The Literary men enumerated, Goethe,
Spurzeim, Champoilion, jeremy Ben
than, Cuvier, each and all of them emf
nent tn their several spheres, and their
demise is therefore worthy of special no.
tice.
The son Of Napoleon is only mentionod
''to paint the moral and adorn the tale"
His mother may well be added to the
list, as she was, beside being the mother
Of kings, woman Of noble mind.
Charles Carroll, in this list, stands alone,
and his name occupies a station highly
honorable.
A class of men, who have gained dis
tinction of anothcrsort, may, with propri-
ETY., be added to the catalogue. They
IRE the men Of great wealth; such as Mr..
Girard, Of Philadelphia. Mr.. Greene,
Of Boston, and Mr.. James, of Albany.
Mr.. Girard's death occurred near the
close of 1881. 1t is not strictly correct
10 add him to the last, but the death of
three Of the most wealthy men in our
country are worthy ofbeing recorded to-
gether.
And then the hosts Of men, Of humber
name, but many of them of no less no.
BILE heart; whose orbit was smaller, but
who shone no less brightly in their own
circle, and cheering and warming, and
enlivening ALI aroundthem. Whoselight,
when put out, is no less severely felt.
Whose virtue and whose worth, though
they may not have dazzled theNpubic
gaze, have nevertheless been the ioxand
delight of the social circle, or the DO.
mestic fre-side....P Portsmouth Journal. y
The Tourist gives the following state.
ment of the various places of worship in
the English Metropolis Episcopaiian
Churches and Chaples 200 Independent
Chapels, 66; Wesleyan Methodist Chan.
els, SO; Baptist Chapels, 81; Calvinistic Me.
thodist Chapels, 30; Presbyterian Scotch
and Unitarian) Chapels, Is; Roman Cath.
oiic Chapels, ID Meeting Houses Of the
French, 6.-Total, 400.
Two lines this column 10 fill.
Oar DeYh hls aid doth will.