Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-07-20

work. he first is placed IN time; the
second in space. By the former, the
beauties ofthe universe are one, infinite,
and always the same. BY the other,
they are multiplied, finished and re-
newed. Without the one, there would
have been no grandeur in the creation.
Without the other, it would have
been all monotony. In this way, time
appears to us in new relation. The
least Of its fractions becomes a CONF
lplete whole, which comprehcnds eve
ry thing, and in which all things are
modified, from the death of an insect
| to the birth of world. Every min
ute is in itselfa little eternity. Bring
together, then, in thought, the most
beautiful accidents Of nature. Suppose
that you see at the same time the hours
of the day and all the seasons; morn
ing Of spring, and morning Of au-
tumn; a night bespangled with stars,
and night covered with clouds; mead
ows enamelled with flowers, and for
rests robbed Of their foliage by storms;
plains covered with springing corn,
and gilded with harvest. You will
then have a jussidea ofthe universe.
Is it not astonishing, that while you
admire the sun, sinking under the ar
chcsof the west, another bel,older OBJ
serves him springing from the regions
of the morning? By what inconceiv-
able magic is it, that this ancient lumi-
nary that rcposes burning and fatigued
1 in the dust Of the evening, is the same
youthful planet that awakens, humid
with the dew under the whitening cur
|tains Of the dawn? At every moment
the sun is rising in the zenith, or set
ting in some portion of the world; or
rather our senses mock us; and there
is truly neither east, nor meridian, nor
west.
Can we conceive what would be the
spectacle of nature, were it abandoned
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moment after, the air would become
too gross, or too much rarifed for the
organs Of respiration. The moon, too
near or too distant from us, would be
at one time invisible, and at another,
would show herself all bloody, covered
with enormous spots, or filling with
her extended orb all the celestial dome.
AS if possessed with some wild vagary,
she would move up and down the line
of the ecliptic, or changing her side,
would at length discover to us face
which the earth has not yet seen. The
stars would show themselves stricken
with the same vertigo, and would hence-
forth become acollection Of terrific con-
functions. On sudden, the constel-
1lation of sumper would be destroyed
/ by that of winter. Bootcs would lead
the Pleiades; and the Lion would roar
in Aquarius. There, the stars would
fleet away with the rapidity Of light
ming. Here, they would hang notion
less. Sometimes crowding into groups,
they would form new milk way. a.
gain, disappearing altogether, and rend-
ing asunder the curtain Of worlds, they
1wotlidd open to view the abysses Of eter-
nifty. But such spectacles will never
Iterrify men, before that day, when God.
quitting the reins, will need nosother
means for destroying the system, than
| to abandon til ITSELF Chntenasbrinnd.
From the Rural Repository.
ON AFFECTATION.
She has most charms who is the most sincere
When we observe afcctation usurp-
ling the throne Of reason, we justly sus-
pect that there exist but few of those