Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-04-12
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nrrTER DAYS

r~fy iteiT sp3 - nsgsi 81 thHis ~ hngm. -
To sef, sgsus F~e5ls islt zoe ~uuid iassEtee ihsi
ihsr, -. NJ chs, 'nos's - 'he yetf bet Ne'cabs'
sss TIA, the Traces had ;oihioT ciss 10 O. bot Be-
fsa 81 The usss. Asd. "a nief Artis 10 Tom
Nee,s, soar. .sooi the 'v,srs that ,b4ne AID fsll
sas rsst ssgeere that By thi. tune sii the stare 10
Hssven h.A se.s tlosn ca, hse - many farhing
ess.sles IN Q ,hoS.boois q; Bsfls-upy .fsr snd a,
so so.srs and icsre,. 4 they gos~sy. uis ohls g.
rsls ~sy "a, ne pnes. There AZ. q, many star,
10 Hss~ea s evr- there wc-e IN the memory o.
tnss, AID ., nnsp, as~e, ca cara. too F; and pr.
Ap more Ia England fsf ve ere sl~s!' maxi
.aS fresh stnprutiions. Il Is al ,efg ~ell nns
sss thea To have grgni ots g'o~i. ota g'cma'c
or Q lAnen'sii1s. bat mend iaalt - wOda ien
fse-fals Ell the world oycf. II u al night sn"srh
sAsa The bsfens'es n the yufee is lo~ ~hss toe
stomach 10 o8i - ofdcf--'o ssy that things arc Boi
- they ssee to Be AuI ! would DOT Cot ,be world
deprive .n hone-t man 81 The pleasure d gfdno
bag u s an Eagh,hmAG's b''ih.nrhi. Bst ]
don't hto 10 zee matter VI teehUg u,Lde matter
q h,s,orT Aad phiiosigh ,crty Jet 90 have our
rtosl and tonc With II. bot some etoascfs r..
rniDd one Of the boy Who ssid he grAadmothe'
vent % sisu, n,nctseH lines . jsy sud never came
dom agaia- Or. 10 seek for smother escmbancc.
si~y may DO htcncl 10 the lnsh Rra,e.digger.N be
war seen one night l,vk'hg about ihc chureh-ysrd
With q lantern 10 has hsnd. What have you lost
Par = oh. have los: my lsn,ctn! you have
your lantern 80 your hand oh. but this Is Ian
iefn I've found. 1t is to, a lantern ! have Loot. -
Thu. II 10 With men ~ general they think more
of the lantern they hsre los, than Of the lantern
they have found. Il 1. tfuc indeed. that things
ere nor Whist they we're with any Of us. Gfea,
changes have taken place aud more daily taking
psce ba, taero are greater changes ~ our feel
ing. and spprehen.ions thsn there are 10 the en-
sesnsl World or IN the general frame Of society.-
What great change mus. have taken place be
tween the limo Of the segc Of Troy aud the days
OF Homer fnt the poet speaks Of AJah peiing the
Greeks with stones Of sucb blgness. that ten or
dozen men Of the degenerate days IN which lio
mcr hved rnuld not lift such a one. Ever since
his time. things have been growing worse aud
worse, 40 that now | dare say, the human race
compared 10 wis, 4 vas during the siege Of Troy
10 not much more than noble army Of gnas.--
Nothing Is AZ IL was: the people grow worse, con
unnslly and the inhabitants Of the earth become
more aitenUaied, tili al length there Will be moth
ing hh of ihem--ihcy viii become gradually .nvs-
ielc. The sun does not shine go brightly as II Us.
ed 10, and the seasons-evety body saws they are
changed There IL great deal Of truth in this
there is no denying it. Bot The worst Of the
MISTER is there IS TO much truth IN It. The eyl-
dencc Of tho mutation of the seasons from youth to
manhood Is 90 superintendent that by proving too
much, prove. nothing.
Between the years i7AO and 1856, Horace Wal.
pole wrote some letter., which have since been
printed and pdblishcd have no, copy now a,
hand to refer TO but ! distinctly remember read
Ing 10 them a lamen,ation on the change of the
seasons. The writer complains tina, u mldsum
msr DAY he 10 writing BY the hre-side: aud lac
pcI,ishly ssys, We have now no summer 10 this
country but Whist We get from Newcastle :; aud
presently soer lee sJds. that IL not SO when he
was young. Now THINK when Horace Wolpnle
was young, Dean SSiit was old and vet the Dean
makes the same complaint. Still more curiously,
the poet Cowper, writing about forty years after
Horace Walpole, makes the same complaint. Ia
nen,iug that neither winters nor summers xere
sUeh they used to be-. Those who are now iiv.
Ing who children when Cooper complained
That the summers were not hot nor the winters
20 cold ss they used to be. do now make the same
complaint as he did then.
10 tho year ISIS the summer was remarkably |
hae and dry, aud oil the people began to cry oul
On the besuly Of what they called an old fashioned
summer. To he sure IT was an old fashioned som. |
msr So are sli summers old inshioned summers
There is passage IN Taciius which describes the |
climate Of ih. country JOS, a. it nigh, be described
so~. eoud quote Lstin bu, as | have no par |
SECULAR end TO snswer 10 looking learned. I make
he extracts from DR. Atkins translation al the hf,
II Arr,eols The sky IN this countr. Is deiormed
~ clouds and frequent rams bot The cold - never
rigorous. The soil, though improper for
he olive and vine. and other productions OF war.
ner climstes, 10 fertile and suitable for corn. -
iro~th 10 quick bot mstursiiou slow both from
he ssme esDse. the great humidity OF the ground
nd atmosphere. There n,~, can any thing be
's'ner than ,hsi' And yet We talk about the chan
zee Of the seasons a. 4 the Sun WAS worn out
nd oil thing were go'nr wrong. There always
ave been oees.'onslly very hot sunmsrs. and oc
,sionslly very cold winters. Nineteen years ago
here WAS fair on the Thames. That winter was ,
%, the rule. Il MAS the exception. Whatever
hsngo there 10, - ~ ourselves. Reader. YOU are
cqusin'ed with persons OF ,hny. forty Gny, sntv. 1
eTen,y. and perhaps eighty years Of age. Ask Z
hem oil Il The seasons hsye not changed .nee they
ere young, and though the respective period. Of
lei' youth we're 4; several intervals yoI wiu find
'em ali 10 the same story.
l, ls precisely the ssmo With regard to manners.
be deterioration OF manners Ne d. not percci,e 80
'on ss We d. tho changes Of the seasons We +,
se cur impression Of the seasons about the sre O
ten. All from that To 6Aeen but our impres- o