The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-08

patton or forefeeling of an unevolved power,
| like an aurela's dream OF butterfly mo-
ton. araif ait f
"The tsdpole has no intermediate state Of
torpor. This merriest Of all creatures, il
ninth may be measured by motion, puts Out
legs before il discards its tail and common
ces frog. Ii was not in our outward frame
that the Doctor could discern any resem-
blance to this process; but he found it in
that expansion OF the intellectual faculties,
those aspirations OF the spiritual part, where
in the Soul seems TO feel its wings and 10
imp them for future flight.
Zone has always something for which TO
look forward, some change for the better
The boy in petticoats longs to be dressed in
the masculine gender. Little boys wish to
be big ones. In youth We are eager to at
tain manhood, and in manhood matrimony
becomes the next natural step Of our de-
sires. days then should speak, and multi
tude of years should teach wisdom; and
teach it they will, If man will but learn,
for nature brings the heart into state Tor
receiving it.
"Jucundissima est atas devexa Jam, non
tamen preceps; ct illam quoque in exrema
regula stantem, judico habere suas volup-
tates aut hoe ipsum succedit in locum vo-
luptatum, nullis egere. Guam dulce est,
cupiditates fatigasse &C reliqUisse " This
was not DIR. Doves philosophy he thought
the stage OF senescence a happy one, not
because we utgrow the desires and enjoy
ments OF youth and manhood, but because
wiser desires, more permanent enjoyments,
and holier hopes succeed to them-because
time in its course brings US nearer to eterni-
y, and as earth recedes, Heaven opens upon
our prospect. ID.
Two OPINIONS OF DocroR Dow
"Dr Dove used TO say that whoever wrote
the life Of an author without carefully peru
sing his works acted as iniquitously as a
Judge who should pronounce sentence in o
cause without hearing the evidence nay, he
maintained, the case was even worse, be
cause there was an even chance that the
Judge might deliver a right sentence, but it
was impossible that a life so composed
should be otherwise than grievously imper.
feet, if not grossly erroneous. For all the
ordinary business Of the medical profession
he thooght it sufficient that a practitioner
should thoroughly understand the practice
Of his art, and proceed empirically God
help the patients, he would say. if it were
not so and indeed without Gods help they
would fare badly at the best. But he was
of opinion that no one could take a lively
and at the same time a worthy interest in
any art or science without as il were identi-
flying himself with il, and seeking TO make
himself well acquainted with its history; q
Physician therefore, according 10 his way
Of thinking, ought to be as curious concern
ing the writings Of his more eminent prede-
cessors, and as well read in the most illus
trous Of them, as a general in the wars OF
Hannibal, Cesar, the Black Prince, the
Prince Of Parma, Gustavus Adolphus, and
Marlborough. ID.
A PATHOLOGICAL SUGGEsrroN FROM
The DocroR. ID would anglcize the or
biography Of chemise; and by improving
upon the hint which the word would then
offer in its English appearance, we might
introduce into our language distinction of
genders-in which it has hitherto been de-
feetive. For example,
Hemise and Shemise
"Here without the use of an article, or
any change Of termination, We have the
needful distinction made more perspicuOusly
than by and 9, hic and haze, le and la, or
other articles serving for no other prI-
pose.
again. In letter-wnting, every person
knows that male and female letters have a
distinct sexual character; they should there
fore be generally distinguished thus,
Hepistle and Shepistle.
And as there is the same marked difference
in the writing Of the two sexes. | would
propose
Penmanship and Penwomanship.
Erroneous opinions in religion beng pro
mulgated in this country by women as well
as men, the teachers Of such false doctrines
may be divided into
Heresiarchs and Sheresiarchs,
so that we should speak Of
the Heresy of the Quakers
the Sheresy Of Joanna Southcote's people.
"The troublesome affection OF the dis
Phrsgm, which every person has expe.
rienced, is upon the same principle to be
called according to the sex OF the pa.
tent
Hecups or Shecups,
which upon the principle Of making our
language truly British is better than the more
classical form OF
Hiccups and Heccups.
In its objective use the word becomes
Hiscups or Hercups,
and in like manner Histories should be al.
tered into Herterics, the complaint never
being masculine.
$50 also instead Of making such words
as agreeable, comfortable, &C., adiectives OF
one termination, would propose
Masculine agreabeau, Feminine ageabelle
comfortabeau comfortabelle
miserabeau miserabelle &c. &c.
"These things are suggested as hints to
MIR. Pytches, to be by him perpended in
his improvement Of our Dictionary. beg
leave also TO point out for his critical no
tice the remarkable difference in the mean.
ing of the word misfortune, as applied to
man. woman, or child; a peculiarly for
which perhaps no parallel is to be found in
any other language. ID.