The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-03-24

gossiping and prying into peoples affairs.
and back biting. and thinking heaven and
earth are coming together, il some broom
touch q cobweb that you have Let grow
over tho window-sill Of your braina-what
like Urge and generous, mildly apefient
Il leg your pardon, my deaD course OF
history How it clears away all the fumes
OF the head.-betier than the hellebore
with which the old leeches Of the middle
ages purged the cerebellum. There, amidst
all that great whirl and stumbled (storm-
bath,) as the Germans say, Of kingdoms
and empires, and races and ages, how your
mind enlarges beyond that little, ieverish
animosily OF John Styles; or that unfortu-
nate prepossession Of yours, that all the
world IS interested in your grievances
against Tom Stokes and his wife,
i Il can only touch, you see, on few in
gradients in this magnificent pharmacy
its resources are bouDdless. but require the
incest discretion. remember to have cured
a disconsolate widower, who obstinately re-
fused every other medcant. by a strict
course Of geology. dipped him deep into
gneiss and mica schist. Amidst the hrst
strata, | suffered the watery action to ex-
pand itself upon cooling crystalised masses;
and, by the time | had got him into the ter
tiary period, amongst the transition chalks
; of Maestricht, and the conchifesous maris
Of Gosau, he was ready for new wife.-
,, Kitty, my dear! it is no laughing matter. ]
1 made no less notable cure OF young
scholar at Cambridge, who was meant for
the church, when he suddenly caught cold
fit Of freethinking. with great shiverings,
: from wading over his depth in Spinosa.--
None Of the divines, whom ! FIRST tried.
! did him the least good in that state; so |
turned over a new leaf, and doctored him
= = gently upon the chapters of faith in Abra-
j ham fuckers book, Oou should read it
Sisty); then | threw in strong doses Of
; Fichte; after that put him on the Scotch
: metaphysicians, with plunge baths into Ger.
: tain German transcendentalists; and having
convinced him that faith is not an unpiilo-
sophical state Of mind, and that he might
J believe without compromising his under.
standing-for he was nightly conceited on
/ that score threw in my divines, which
;, he was now fit to digest and his theology
= cal constitution, since then, has become SO
: robust, that he has eaten up two livings and
deanery! In fact, have plan for a Ii
brary that. instead Of heading its copart
u ments, Philology, Natural Science
Poetry" &C., one shall head them accord
= : ing to the diseases for which they are sever
ally good. bodily and mental-Up from 4
!, dire calamity, or the pangs Of the govt
= down to fit Of the spleen, or a slight ca
y y tarrh; for which last your light readins
: comes in with whey posset and barley
e water. But continued my father NOR,
y gravely, when some one sorrow, that il
:, . yet Ieparable, gets hold Of your mind lik,
e a monomania--when you think, becaus,
heaven has denied you this or that, OF
" which you had set your heart, that all you
n life must be blank-oh, then diet your
:, self on biography.-the biography of grea
:, and good men. See how little space on,
~ sorrow really makes in life. See scarce
page, perhaps, given TO some grief simla
" t. your own; and how triumphantly tn,
:" life sails beyond it. You thought III,
wing was broken Tut-tut-it was onl,
&c bruised feather See what life leaves be
;; hind it, when all is done!-a summary o.
- positive facts far out Of the region Of sor
= row and suffering, linking themselves witt
- The being Of the world. Yes, biograph,
. is the medicine here! Roland, you said yol
= would try my prescription-here it s.
= and my father took up book, and reaches
- it to the Captain.
&c My uncle looked over Life of IN
!. Reverend Robert Hall. Brother, he wa
y Dissenter, ard, thank heaven, am
. church-and-state man, back and boneI'
r. 'Robers Hall was brave man, and :
= true soldier under the great commander,
!" said my father, artfully.
y The Captain mechanically carried hi
lorehnger to his forehead in military fashion
:. and saluted the book respectfully.
:, Il have another copy for you, Pisistratus
= that is mine which | have lent Roland
!, This, which bought for you to-day, 20,
= will keep
Thank you, sir, said |, listlessly, no
seeing what great good the Life of Rober
II Hall could do me, or why the same medi
= cine should suit the old weather-beater
: uncle, and the nephew in his teens.
= Il have said nothing. resumed my father
r. slightly bowling his broad temples, of the
Book Of Books, for that is the hgnum rite
n the cardinal medicine for all. These are
= r but the subsidiaries
- Hartman a,on vewsarl~