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

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iss dst. shen nsec - the VIssou. Innovations
sefs taosn. uh,ch .fe puw 90 pressicui 10 every
haag. "a risa ,h-i am nei'hs1 e., nor steam
80 It ~osld btcss ny heart 10 be abused a. they
have been.
B.i sfsn the regret. u the better days that sre
PORE BY. non, sfc nigrc pathetic Than The lsmeniA
fians fa' he loo. II I'll saf great W bat mar
teiious'l rfca, rnea DID l,e N ibe oa!s that sfe
sa, The. 81 coarse, ssv, the triumphant crosk'
e. rnas, te ADMITTED There " no denying that
shsirpesre. M,lioa. Pe,e, Scott, Byron, Pit. Fox
Csnuiar, sbetidsn srr ell gone, and have not len
her hk.ne..cs behinA. I, u no easy matter 10
CONCEIVE any ba'nss being more proud I'D happy
has 8 Triumphant erosket " you stop a man ia
The rn,dS cf s,s IA nensions, aud Prove 10 him, As
clear e. light, ihN, be h.. no good cause Tor CON.
plsnt. YOU scen to nfict injary upon han bot,
Z he oss repel your Arguments, and establish bs
eva ctosi,ag cp'n,on beyond all question, he l.
az hspmer ihan II be had never had any cause OF
plant. l. here says be-, man bow living Who
cen aii,c a. ShakspeAre wrote Very likely thcro
Is On, aud there sefe, he would be qnitc SUI
grthuly. se have a. much Shakespeare We want
and 80 Of oil the rest.
Tho cause ofih,s style oftcproschng the present
by referring to the past IN to be found IN The loud
lamentations, which mark the departure Of great
mea from TIC subhmary scene. When dtstin-
gulshcd man dice the public feel loss. Funefal
rlrey, anon meut, egiAph. biography oil niaAo Tho
ioss more talked about. We notice the great trees
that are cot down, but We regard not the saPiings
that are spfingiug up IN their places. Thus ac
think that We live in sad. degenerate days. and
thus se get into the habit Of looking upon great
men IS good for nothing until they are dead In the
book Of the Proverbs Of Solomon. It is said that
living dog is better than dead lion. Perhaps 1t
may be bat we do not IN general seem TO hold this
doctrlne indeed. We regard the living as dogs, aud
The dead as lions.
! ,hiuk another cause Of our looking back on the
past as on better days, may be found in the fact
Ihsi We are oil growing older. The world is not
half DO pretty and wonderful TO Us now as 1t was
when We were young. To boy. a schoomss,er
is often awful and great parsonage; he is regar
Jed with admiration, as miracle Of majesty, and
paragon Of know lodge. Old BIsby knew that.
when he KEEP, his Ia, IN the presence of royalty
~ hs school room. But what different idea
nf schooimosiers we acquire when We are grown
mp to mans estate. We measure all things by
he s,sndurd Of our own feeling; have no other
rule TO go by and if we feel ourselves growing
old and Wearing out and If our eyes grow dim
We think the sun shines more feebly than he was
wont to do; and # our feelings grow obtuse, we
fancy there is nothing in the world worth caring
for AID If We 60 the scenes of boysh holidays,
aud If our boylsh feelings do not return TO us--we
fancy that the place is sadly altered. ! remember
hearing one OF the greatest puppies that ever liv-
ed, complain Of the conceIt and afec,alion of
young men of the present generation, and say,
II was not so when ! was ,oung.' - London Maya
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