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MISCELLAN EOUS


III \ ~ " IL - II IL ~ IL " " ~.
kf 81 LOVE.
When men describe what Is. or might
be, an exquisite happiness, there steals a
melancholy over the description, aud Mr..
Emerson makes it . primary condition.
That we must leave too close and linger-
ling adhereneeto the actual, to facts. and
study the sentiment as it appeared in hope,
and not i'm history Let any man 90 back
to those delicious relations which make
the beauty Of his life, which have given
imsincerest instruction and nourishment.
heWill shrink, and shrink Alas I know
not why, but infinite compunctions embit.
ter in mature life all the remembrances
of budding sentiment, and cover every be,
loved name. Every thug is beautiful.
seen from the point of the intellect, or as
truth But all is sour, as seen from expe4
rience. It is strange how painful is the
actual world-the painful kingdom Of time
and space There dwell care, canker, and
fear. With thought, with the ideal, is inn
mortal hilarity, the rose Of joy, Round
it all the muses. sing. But with names
and persons and the partial interests of to.
day and yesterday, is grief But be our
experience in particulars what it may, no
man ever forgot the yisitations Of that
power to hissheart and brain which created
all things new; which was the dawn in him
Of music, poetry, and art; which made the
face of nature radiant with purple light,
the morning and the night varied enehant-
ments; when single tone of one voice
could make the heart beat, and the most
ioizir, ~ Isss- e'aaa. .aseaeiatad with one
aolbsn zoe become al eye ,etea one aeas pre-
sent, and az memory aohes one aras gone,
when the youth becomesa watcher Of win.
dows, and studious Of . glove, d veil, arb.
bon, or the wheels of . carriage; when no
place is too solitary, and none too silent
for him who has richer company and sweet
er conversation in his new thoughts, than
any old friends; though best and purest,
can give him when al business seemed
an impertinence, and ali the men and wo
men drumming to and fro 10 the streets, mere
pictures For, though the celestial rap
ture falling out of heaven SEXES only upon
those Of tender age, and although a beau
ty, oyerpowering all analysis orl compari-
son, and putting us quite beside ourselves,
we can seldom see after thirty years, yet
the remembrance Of these visions outlasts
all other remembrances. and is wreath
of flowers on the oldest brows.
KNowLEDGE.-Dne Of the most agreca
bleconsequences Of knowledge, is the re
spect and Importance which it communi-
Gates to old age Men rise in character
often as they increasein years; they are
venerable from what they can impart II
they outlive their faculties, the mere frame
itself is respected for what it once con
tanned !; butwith uneducated women, when
youth is gone, all is gone No human
creature gives his admiration for nothing,
either the eye must be charmed or the I'm.
Outstanding gratifed. A woman must
talk wisely or look well Every human
being must put up with the coolest civil
| ty, who has neither the charms Of youth
nor the wisdom Of age
GOLDEN THoUcHTs. II never vet found
pride in noble nature, nor humility in
an unworthy mind Of all trees, I OBJ
serve that God has chosen the vine "a low
plant that crecps upon the helpful wall
Of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; o
Ian fowls, inc MID ana gulIeIess dove.-
When God appeared to Moses, il was no
lin the lofty cedar, nor the spreading palm
/ but a bush. an humble, slender, abjec'
tbnsh As ifhe would by these selection.