New-York daily tribune., 1845-04-30
THE TRIBUNE.
Hazlitt's Tsble-TaIk.

HazIitt's Teble-Tnlk.
Wiley & Putnam,s Library OF Choice Reading, TABLE,
TALE: BY WILLIAM HAztITT. Part1
Hazliit is the oracle of the men OF talent. They
ike his richness Of observation better than genius,
and his sparkling suggestions better than truth.
But he in whom the inward life is awakened,
who perceives that there is only one way Of ascent
IN the spiritual kingdom, and who prizes the exer-
cises Of intellect only as preparatory to conquests
in the realms Of love and truth, will often find ne
pays too dear for the entertainment afforded by this
brilliant, various, and penetrating mind, and will
always refuse him place amid the Conscnpt Fathers
the permanent legislature OF the Literary Rome.
Yet those who knew Haztt in life could i'll have
dispensed with an acquaintance often source OF
pain, often of pleasure, seldom never of satisfac
ton. And how could ICE dispense with our ac
quantauce with the Tabe-Talk =? There was a
time well suited 10 the enjoyment OF cup mixed
with gall, with honey, and The dark red wine, and
at that time it mingIed not unkindy with the blood
Beside, Hazlitt is fully man OF the lime, and what
we taste and see concentrated in him, would, al
any rate, have peryaded us from the atmosphere we
daily breathe.
Read tlaztt, catch from his mind lis animation
and its pognancy; let the brilliant and touching in
tercourse give impulse 10 your thoughts. But far
iher you need not so. We open almos, al random
TO a passage which gives not unjust point OF view
for him, and one from which we cannot look with
other than gentle eye:
at has been thought by some that life is like the
exploring of passage that grows narrower and
darker the artherwe advance, without possibility
of ever turning back, and where we are stled tor
want OF breath at last For myself, DO not COM
PLAIN OF the greater thickness OF the atmosphere as
approach the ndrroc house felt 1t more formerly,
when the idea alone seemed 10 suppress a thou
sand Using hopes, and weighed upon the pulses OF
the blood. AT present rather feel thlnness and
want OF support. stretch out my hand to some
object and lind nom; ; am too much in world of
abstraction the naked map OF lie is spread out be-
fore me, and in the emptiness and desolation see
Death coming TO meet me. In my youth could not
behold him tor the crowd of objects and feelings,
and Hope stood between US, saying Never mind
that old lellown If | had lived indeed, | should
not so much care TO die. But do not like con-
tract of pleasure broken of unfulhlled, marriage
with 10Y unconsummated, apromise OF happiness re-
scnded. Ny public and private hopes have been
left ruin, remain only TO mock me. would
wish them to be rceditied | should like 10 see ssnle
prospec, Of good TO mankind, such as my life be.
gan with. ] should like 10 leave some sterling
work behind me. should like TO have sme
friendly hand consign me ts the grave. On these
conditions am ready, if not willing, TO depart.
could then write on my tomb GRATEFUL AND Con
TENTED But have thought and suffered too much
10 be willing TO have thought and suffered IN vain
In looking back II sometimes appears TO me as 1t |
had in Il manner sept out my life in a dream or
trance on the side of the hill OF knowledge, where
have fed ON books, on thoughts, on pictures, and
only heard in halt-murmurs the trampllng OF busy
feet or the noises OF the throDg below"
strange sweet passage is this from the rheiori-
cal critic. thousand might have been chosen
that would better indicate the image we habitually
form of Haztt but, perhaps, none trser to the
truest facts of his existence. *
OBEHrIN QUARTERLY REVIEW, This work is TO
be commenced in August next and is to be edited
by Pres MAuAN and Prof. CocumAN, who avow
their determination TO sustain pure literature, a
sound philosophy, a correct theology, practical
morality and spiritual religion II will consist of
I25 large octave pages each quarter, making book
of 500 pages the year. Terms, 50 a year in ad-
vance Jas NJ, Fitch, Publisher, Oberlin.
S5- PYcRoFr's COURSE OF ENGLISH READING
has been published in the cheap style by Carey s
Hart and is FOR sale by Burgess Strinser As the work
was recently printed in right readable book by another
house, we this issue uus,nabe This is hardly the
kind of book go, up like shilling novel and we ad
wise all who buy It TO choose the better edition.
hy- A New MEDICAL WORK of novel character
is announced as ready for publication by Mr.. Red
field, of Clinton Hall. twill undoubtedly make a
sensation, not only among professional men, bu,
The public at large, for the author has labored TO
render generally useful by divestng it as much as
possible OF technical terms is entitled The Principles
OF System OF Medicine. with Fallaces
of The Faculty. and nom the pen OF the celebrated DR.
Samuel Dickson of London II centends for the unity of
disease that there is but dseaseof which fever and
aSue tyle that all the forms Of disease even tho
most acute. (Which commonly called inhammaiory0
curable without The aid OF IN any manner
The author cites many from his own practice and
that of others whose opinions nj variance with his
10 position. The remedies prescribed BY
him are like his system. simple and like those treated o
ua the ordinary ilspensatotlcs but The doses smaller
the suhoy maintaining that the action of his chrcnother
nal medicines electrical magnecal. primarily through
the BRAIN and thence through the system Gallo
mel sinks subordinate rank In this svSscm and is
placed among what called syanptoaiatSc medicines.
Wha given, it Is only In minute doses
This work will be accompanied, learn. with an in
PRODUCTION and notes Dr. William Turner late Health
Commissioner this city, and who, having been long en-
gagged in studying the SYSTEM declares that he has
amply verified IL IN his practice. and that It's superiority
other systems OF medicine cannot be SaiDsayed
The public mind anxious and nQuiing state at the
present the subject of sia9 and the new sys
TEN will, /! Is hoped % candidly examined and tried
NY Correspondent of Nat iu;ei
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