New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-11

into one society Ike air or wafer an element of
such great range OF sffiniiies, that it combines
readily with a thousand substances. Where she
is present, all others will be more than they are
wont. She was a unit and whole, 30 that what
soever she did, became her. She had too much
sympathy and desire to please, than that you
could say, her manners were marked with Dig
nifty, yet no princess could surpass her clear and
erect demeanor On each occasion. She did rot
study the Persian grammar, nor the books of the
seven poets, bur all the poems OF the seven
seemed to be written upon her. Fo:, though the
bias Of her nature was not to thought, but 20
sympathy. yet was she Sd perfect in her own no
ture, as to meet Intellectual persons by the full
ness Of her heart, warming them BY her sent
mems; Believing, as she did, that by dealing
molly with ell, all would show themselves noble
l know that this Byzantine pile OF chivalry or
Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque 10
those who look at the contemporary facts for
science or for entertainment, is not equally pleas
ant to ell spectators. The constitution of our
society makes it giants castle TO the ambitious
youth who have no: found their names enrolled
IN liz Golden Book, and whom it has excluded
from its coveted honors and privileges. Tney
have yet TO learn that its seeming grandeur is
shadowy and relative: it is great by their allow
ance its proudest gates will fly open at the ap-
proach of their courage and virtue. For the
present distress, however, Of those who are pre-
disposed to suffer from the tyrannies Of this ca
price, there easy remedies. To remove your
residence couple Of miles, or at most four Will
commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
For, the advantages which fashion values, are
plants which thrive in very confined localities, in
few streets, namely. Out Of this precinct,
they 60 for nothing; are Of no use in the farm,
in the forest, the Market IN war, in the nuptia
society, in the literary or scientific circle at sea,
in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.
But we have fingered long enough in these
painted courts. The worth of the thing signihed
must vndcate our taste for the emblem. Every
thing that is called fashion and courtesy humbes
itself before the cause and fountain of honor,
creator of titles and dignites, namely, the heart
OF love This ia the royal blood, this the fire,
which, in all countries and contingencies, will
work after its kind, and conquer and expand all
tina approaches it. This gives new meanings to
every fact. This imPoverskes the rich, suffering
no grandeur but its own. What is rich :? Are
you rich enough to help any body to succor the
questionable and the eccentric rich enough TO
make the Canadian in his wagon, the itinerant
with his copsuls paper which commends him
"To the charitable" the swarthy Italian with
his few broken words of English, the lame pau
per hunted by overseers from town to town, even
the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or
woman, feel the noble exception of your presence
and your house, from the general bleakness and
sloniness TO make such feel that they were
greeted with voice which made them both re-
member and hope What is vulgar, but to re-
| fuse the claim on acute and conclusive reasons 7
What s gentle, but 10 allow il, and give their
heart and yours one holiday from the national
caution2 Without the rich heart, wealth is an
ugly beggar. The king OF Schiraz could not
afford to be so bountlful as the poor Osman who
dwelt at his gate. Osman had humanity so
broad and deep, that although his speech was SO
bold and free with the Koran, as 10 disgust ell
the dervishes, yet was there never poor outcast,
eccentric, or insane man, some fool who had cut
off his beard, or who had been mutilated under
! view, or had a pet madness in his brain. but
ned al once 10 him,-that great heart lay there
50 sunny and hospitable in the centre of the
country,-that it seemed as if the instinct of all
sufferers drew them 10 his side And the madness
which he harbored, he did not share. Is not this
to be rich this only TO be rightly rich2
But shall hear without pain, that l play the
courtier very III, and talk of that which do not
we'll understand. 1t is easy to see, that what is
called by distinction society and fashion, has
good laws as well as bad, has much that is me-
cessary, and much that is absurd. Too good for
banning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us
of tradition of the pagan mythology, in an at
tempt to settle its character. l overheard Jove,
one day. said Silenus, talking of destroying the
earth; he sad it had failed; they were all rogues
and vixens, who went from bad TO worse, as fast
as the days succeeded each other. Minerva said,
she hoped not they were only ridiculous little
creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they
had blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or
seen near; if you called them bad, they would
appear so; if you called them good, they would
appear so; and there was no one person or action
among them, which would not puzzle her owl,
much more all Olympus, to know whether it was
fundamentally bad or good