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why, they belong to The little, avaricious
8 IL cent tribe he has been describing
How modest!
The man thai has but impudence
To all things has fair pretence %

How modest!
The man thai has but inipudence
To all things has fair pretencen
Go where you will, at all times and
places, you will find The man who talks the
loudest against the 'stingy, avaricious' dis
position Of others, as he calls it, if you watch
him closely, you will find he will be the
last to give literally TO any object; and he
will be the first TO jump al every scheme,
as in the above case, TO put the nine-penee
into his own pocket. When you hear them
talk on this subject, they only fulfil the old
proverb of Judging others By themselves
Others there are, admit = the idlers and
drones of society who never labor any
themselves, but put the labors Of others on
to their backs and into their mouths, thro'
their whole life time. These will stigmatize
the man who is far above them in moral
worth, and brand him as a little, SIX penny
stingy sort Of fellow merely because he
is saving, industrious and economical and
determined 10 live within his means. |
know not what terms of contempt this idle
class of consumers would heap on Doctor
Franklin for his system Of economy; and
especially for his maxim that, if you take
care Of the cents the dollars will take care
of themselves
will close by remarking that, if MIR. G.
had any claims to originality, it arose from
his manner rather than his matter. Many
of his gestures, and the contortions Of bis
face and body, were silly and ridiculous in
the extreme He tried TO mimic anything
and every thing, and whenever he said
thing he esteemed witty, be would usually
be the first 10 laugh himself, and then watch
his hearers; and if he found them laughing,
he was sure to join them in another out
break Of boisterous mirth. Like the lecturer
on the head Of 'comical fellow mentioned
in the school-boCk, this man always laugh
ed al what he said himself, and he imagined
man of wit must always be upon the
broad grim .--.
| must confess, however, that if his ideas
| were not always original, that many Of his
ucords were. will only mention two or
three taken from multitude of others
such as '6esteSt toofinest," Sticktoitireness,
! 'tigerociouS,' together with many others too
silly or too indelieate 10 name, For like
the noted Hudibras, -.-=- .
| He could coin or counterfeit
| NeD words with little no wit;
Words SO debased and hard no stone
Was hard enough to touch them on --.
| And when with hastv noise he spoke EN-
The ignorant for current took EN-
My apology for making this article much
longer than at first intended, arises from
the mischieVous tendency of many of the
things said in these lectures, as well as the
manner Of saying them. The natural lear
nal mind is at enmily with God and the
current of thong especially in the young
lis easily led in the grovelIing channel of
time and sense; and nothing but the power
of truth and sense of duty will prevent ii.
A whole community may be seriously im-
pressed with the truths Of Christianity, and
yet an artful, designing speaker, will come
along and dissipate the whole. A single
effort Of his may, perhaps, do more harm
than the preacher of the gospel can do for
months.
Yours, for truth and decency,
One OF THE PEOPLE.
The PEOPLES ADVOCATE, circulated
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