Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1841-09-09

solution is, and has been so general. thar
the term "agony" has been applied to II
I'D many languages. In its origin the word
means nothing more than contest or strife !.
but 1t has been extended so as tn embrace
the Pa"gs of death and every violent pain.
Ahe agony OF death, however, phvsiologi-
cally speaking, instead Of being state or
mental and c"rporeal turmoil and anguish
is one OF insensibiity. The hurried and
labored breathing, The peculiar sound on
instead of being evidences Of suffering, are
now admitted TO be signs of the brain hav-
ing lost all, or almost all, sonsibiIity to i'm
preSSioHs. Whilst the brain is possessed of
consciousness, the eye is directed as the
will commands by the appropriate right of
voluntary muscles ofthe organ but as soon
as the consciousness is lost, and the will no
longer acts, the eye-hall is then drawn up
lnvoluntarily under the upper eye-lid. All
the indications, therefore, of moral strife.
are in such appearance only even the con-
vuIslve agi'atiens. occasionally perceived,
are OF the nature of the epilep,ic spasms.
which we know to be produced in total in-
sensibiIity, and to afford no real evidence
ct corporeal suffering. An easy death is
what all desire. and, fortunately, whatever
have been the previous pangs, the closing
scene in most ailments is generally Of this
character. In the beautiful MYTHOLOGY Of
the ancicnts, Death was known as the
Daughter Of Night and the Sister of Sleep.
She was the only divinity to whom no sac
r.hce was ever made, because it was felt
that no human interference could arrest her
ARM yet her approach was contemplated
without any physical apprehension. Tho
representation of death, as a skeleton COW
cred merely with skin, on the tomb of Can.
nae, was not the common allesorical picture
of the period. 1t was generally depicted
on tonbs as "a friendly genius, holding
wreath in his hand, with All inverted torch /:
as sleeping child, winged, with an inverl-
ed torch resting on his wreath or as love.
with melancholy torch-the inverted
torch being "a beautiful emblem ofthe grad
ual selt-extinguishmen of the vital fame.
The disgusting representations of death
from the contents Of the charnel house.
were not common until the aus,eriry of tho
fourteenth century, and are beginning to he
abandoned. In more recent times. death
seems to have been portrayed as beautiful!
youth; and il is under this form that he is
represented by Canoya. on the monument
which George w., of England, erected in
StPeter's at Rome, in honor Of Tho S,uar,s.
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world mans greatest merits are in his
defects. Of all possible faults, the most
precious, aud that which should DO most
carefully cultivated, is impudence. 1t isu
fortune in itself. Next comes siLintss.-
II you are only little weak in the upper
story, you need not fear; you are made
man. You have two sons-blothers and
cousins, as the case may be. One is full
of courage, activity and sense, and you say
All, have 10 fears about him-he can
take care of himscIf!" The other is fool,
or nearly so, helpless and silly. The
question is anxiously debated, What can
we do with Augustus he has not sense
enough to get along in the world 5" and
therefore he gets snug place under gov.
eminent. commission in the army, or II fat
living. Irritati!ity is an excellent fault
A very irritable person is always treated
with attention. So is obstinacy and bru-
tality. A violent rage is an answer to every
argument, threat sure way to obtain a
favor. Impertinenes, too, is very well,
though dangerous a. times. luckily, in
solent people possess wonder full instinct;
they manage their failing with infinite art
they know exactly as to time, place and
person, when to employ it and when NOT.
But If it is Of service to have faults, what IL
disadvantage to have good qualities? Dig
nifty makes you hundred enemies. 1t is
better to be familiar and mean than dignif-
ed and reserved. Goodness Of heart does
not exactly injure its. owner, hut it makes
him contemplate. Impartiality makes a
hermit Of you to be impartial is to DO
suspected. But Of all virtues, that to which
no mercy is shown, that which poisons all
happiness, that which is never pardoned, is
delicacy--a fatal merit, which is an insult
to all who do not possess it. No wonder,
then, that faults abound. when they are
passport to wealth, to consideration, and to
happiness
Imm0rtality.-Theu universal impression
that there are regions beyond the precincts
Of time and the limits Of terrestrial space,
in which all the disorders of the present
state Of things will be adjusted, and all the
wrongs Of this world redressed, is one of
the wisest and most blessed elements in
ihe constitution Of the human mind. But
for the hope OF happy hereafter, there are
millions Of beings in the world to whom
existence would be a burthen too heavy 10
be borne. That glorious hope alone sus-
| tains them under tho uressura nf ,ha