The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1841-04-16


Those orators who give us much noise
and many words, but little argument and
less wit, and who are most loud when
they are the least lucid, should take les.
son from the great volume Of nature she
often gives us the lightning, even without
the thunder, but never the thunder with
out the lightning.
No Improvement that takes place in
either of the sexes can possibly be CO..
fined TO itself each is an universal r. = Nj!
ror to each; and the respective reiIn6
ment of the one, will always be in re&lI
rocal proportion to the polish Of tl 4
other.
Pedantry Grams our heads with Learned
lumber, and takes out our brains to make
room for it.
An ambassador from Naples, once said
of the young ladies' Of Paris, that they
loved with their heads and thought with
their hearts and could the same ambas-
sador now see certain class of young
gentlemen in London, he might as truly
say of them, that they did neither, with
either.
Oraiory is the putting and clustering
spoilt-chIld Of semi-barbarous age. The
press is the foe of rhetoric. but the friend
of reason: and the art Of defamation has
been sinking in value, from the moment
that speakers were foolish enough to pub
lish, and hearers wise enough, to read.
We seek the society of the ladies' with
a view rather to be pleased than instruct
ed, and are more gratiiied by those who
will talk, than by those tina. are silent;
for if they talk well, we are doubly de-
lighted TO receive information from so
pleasant source, and if they are at times
little out in their conclusions, il is flat.
terng to our vanity to set them right.
Therefore, would have the ladies' indulge
with somewhat less of reserve in the Free
dom OF conversation, Notwithstanding the
remark of HIM who said with more of
point than of politeness, that they were
the reverse of their own mirrors for the
one reflected without talking, but the other
| talked without rejecting.
1t is curious that some learned ounces,
because they can write nonsense in Ian
guages tina, are dead, should despise those
that can talk sense in languages that are
living TO acquire a few tongues, says a
French writer, is the task OF few years,
but to be eloquent in one, is the labor Of
whole life.
Ladies of fashion starve their happiness
to feed their vanity, and their love TO feed
their pride.
There is this of good in real wills, they
deliver us while they last, from the petty
despotism of all that were imaginary.
Great wits, who pervert their talents to
sap the foundations of morality, have to
answer for all the evil tina, lesser wits
may accomplish through their means,
even 10 the end of time. A heavy load
Of responsibility, where the mind is snll
alive to do mischief, when the hand il
animated is dust. Men Of talent may
make breach in morality, at which men
Oh none may enter, as citadel may be
carried by muskets, after a road has been
battered out for them by cannon.
He that knowingly defends the wrong
side of question, pays very bad com.
phment 10 all his hearers il is in plain
English this, falsehood supported by my
talents, is stronger than truth supported
! by yours.
: The upright, if he suffer calumny Il
move him, fears the tongue Of man more
i than the eye Of God.
: Philosophy is bully that talks yer,
loud, when the danger is a, distance
but the moment she is hard dressed BY
the enemy, she is not TO be found at hcl
, post, but leaves the brunt Of the battle ia
be borne by her humber but sieadicI
= comrade Religion, whom on all other oc
casions she affects TO despise.
;, There are many who despisc half the
:, world, but if there be any tina, despise ths
whole of it, it is because the other hal
: despises them.
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