New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-23
.)AILY CRESCENT.
THE MosLEM.--Dr. Dage, in his lecture on the
Turkish power, relates the following amusing

THE MosLEM.-Dr. Dage, in his lecture on the
Turkish power, relates the following amusing
anecdote
A story is told Of the Sultan by a country
man of ours. who was called to Constantinople
to superintend the Launching of some of the
ROYAL ships. The Turks do these things by
hand, and By the main strength Of hundreds Of
them. But our American went to work, and
built his ways and props after the American
fashion, 30 as 10 let the vessel launch itself.
When he had got his operations nearly COM
pleted, the Sultan, who was present and noticed
the small number Of his workmen, sent word 70
know if he did not want more help No., he
replied, she had enough Thinking he had
been misinformed, tho Sultan sent second time
to offer hundred men from the Royal Dock
yards. Again he refused, and being busy, an
swered rather sharply this time. At that mo-
ment the signal was given. the props We're
knocked away, and the vessel starting without
the aid of hands, slid smoothly and gracefully
along the frame work--then of-off into the
waters Of the Golden Horn. Lifting his hands
and eyes in anlazement. sMashallah = ex-
claimed Abdul Medjid, & God is great God
helps him-if he is an infdel r 50 say Of Alb
dull Afedjid When he links his fortunes with
humanity and freedom, may God help him, if he
is n fnfdel'
IRREGULARITIES OF LANGUAGE.-In all hot
countries men use in speaking multitude of
vowels, which are all pronounced by greater or
less operations of the mouth, in breathing aud
speaking, and use very few consonants, all which
are produced by more or less complete interrupt
tinns Of the breath, and contact, or even clo-
sure, Of parts among the organs Of speech Any
one who examines the italian language will
find, therefore, about sixty yowels in every hun
dred letters; and in the Otaheinan (Tahitianl
Language, which sounds very like Italian, there
are even more; it is said about seventy five or
eighty vowels in every hundred letters. The
proportion is very different in English, in which
consonants preponderatet; and if we examine
the language of Lapland or Greenland, or the
Arctic American Esquamaux, we shall find there
On enormous number of consonants in their
more than sesquipedalian words, and that most
Of these consonants are cultural, as they do not
like to open their mouth to the cold air sufi-
GENTLY to pronounce the labial, dental or ling
ual Oonsonants; much less the voWels. This is
an universal law though immigration or colo
nization, or the ancient transportation Of the
whole nation by tyrant conquerer, may some
times present an apparent exception or anomaly,
by our finding language or people, origin
ally temperate or torrid, in frigid zone, or
DICE cersd.
GENIUS, TALENT AND GLEyERNEss. Genius
rushes like q whirlwind, talent marches like a
cavalcade of heavy men and heavy horses,
cleyerness skins like o swallow in the Summer
evening with sharp, shrill note and sudden
turning. The man of genius dwells with men
and with nature the man of talent ia his study :,
but the clever man dances here, there and every
where, like butterfly in a hurricane, striking
every thing and enjoying nothing, but too light
to be dashed to pieces. The man of talent will
attack theories, the clever man will assail the
individual and SANDER private character. The
man Of genius despises both he heeds none, he
fears none, he lives in himself, shrouded in the
consciousness Of his own strength; he interferes
with none, and walks forth an example that
eagles fy alone, they are but sheep that herd
together" 1t is true, that should a poisonous
worm cross his path, he may tread it under
foot; should cur snarl at him, he may chas-
tise him; but he will not, cannot, attack the
privacy Of another. Clever men write verses,
men Of talent write prose, but the man of genius
writes poetry. IHazlitt.
ON ENGLISH POETRY. The romantic episodes
Of English history are chronicled in the loves of
her poet. Surveys attachment to Geraldine, |
and Wyatt's devotion to Anna Boleyn, are
among the recollections that haunt the visitor |
to Windsor Castle; and if we turn from the
annals Of those times, to the verse of these bards
we find charming illustration of the sentiment,
the diction, the woes and chivalry of that day
The very quaintness Of the diction endears these
mellow sentiments of primitive verse. In the |
cheap and beautiful edition Of the British Poets |
in the course Of publication by Little s. Brown,
we are glad to find q well annotated and COM
plete reprint Of the Poems of the Earl of Surrey
and Sir Thomas Wyatt The comparative rarity |
Of copies wall render these volumes very accept
able boston Transcript.
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