Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-03-16


best proof Of her in6delity is her neg
lect 10 prosperity.
"Thou shalt not covet,n saith Holy
Writ. Yet there are two things a
man may seek for and most earnestly
scovet," without doing wrong to the
commandment; the love of pure hear
! ted. intelligent woman, and Ii good IL
brary. With these we could be hap
.IPy.
Some disguised fasehoods are so like
truths, that il would be Judging i'll not
to be deceived by them.
| All women are coquets, though all
\ do not practise coquetry. Some are
restrained by fear, some by reason.
/ We sometimes condemn the present
by praising the past; we show our con-
tempt of what now is, by our esteem
for what is no more.
j None but the contemplate arc ap-
prehcnsive Of contempt.
Alexander having pushed bis con-
quests 10 the extreme boundaries OF the
Indies, the inhabitants OF Nissa sent
Acuphix, their principal citizen, to him
to beg for the safety Of their city,
Alexander granted his prayer, and pro-
missed 10 leave the place in possession
, Of its laws and government, but wished
to take away with him a hundred OF
its chiof Senators as hostages; OH which
Acuphix said-'How, oh great con
/, qucror, can city preserve its laws
t and continue well governed, if depriy.
t ed Of those best fitted TO ruler' an
!, observation which SO much pleased AL
+ exander, that he contented himsel
with carrying off young men in the
stead of the Senators. A good lesson
1 also, is furnished BY it to republicans
, with regard to their selection Of "scr'
I wants."
AGREEABLENEss.-Wc, judge SO SUI
. periicially Of things, that common
words and actions, spoken and done in
an agreeable manner, with sore konw'
ledge of what passes in the world, Of
ten succeed beyond the greatest abili'
ty.
We may say of agrecablcness, as
distinct from beauty, that it is sym
, metry whose rules are unknown; il is a
, secret conformity of the features to
one another, to the complexion, to the
{ carriage.
ABsEScE.-Farewell is perhaps the
hardest word to pronounce ip our Ian
: guage, yet when once said, like the
! extraction OF a tooth, the worst pain j.
over. Absence is, to the lacerated
heart what laudanum is to the wound,
: it soothes and heals.
!. All, the future! the dreaming, the
dcceiving future. which promises every
thing, and, performs notting-what
could the present be without i'll
Busun.s.-"fhe Infinite little dis.
; fractions Of quiet employment; the
, hourly greetings in the street, the mo-
mentary expectation Of an incident,
the sowing Of today for the reaping Of
to morrow, the constant sense ofan ex-
ternal.. relation, all form, as it were, o
lutc-likemusic to the heart Of the dwell
Ter in the highway OF life,a which
charms the passions to sleep, and har.
monies the opposing ininitics Of the
soul into the zero that lies between:
and man enveloping within him capa-
cities for good that might dwarf aR'an-
gel, and energies nc evil that might
startlc demon, goes throughthe world
harmless, worthless being, as little
conscious of what lies within him as the
hirsute rind Of the oyster knows Of the
Jewel that it houses"
EARTHLY PLEAsuREs.-There dwells
in every man passionate longing for
better world which he tries to assu-
age by earthly pleasures as tie women
in India put snakes IN their bosoms for
GOODNESS; but ours gnaw into The heart,
! and perishes, with its feverish thirst un-
Stacked.
TAKING TINE FoU IRA man ut
breakfast yesterda, sat long time ar
ter the others were done. you are a
great while at breakfast said his inn
patient friend; "you don't expect me to
eat all the beef steak in moment, dc
your was,thc reply.
j We pass often from love to ambition,
but we seldom return from ambition &c
love.