The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-01-20
HOLINESS AND BEAUTY.

From an interesting article in Answorth's
Magazine we take the following abstract, and
commend it to those who arc curious in such
matters:
"Somc Of our greatest men were, and arc,
in the erroneous sense of the term, ugly, eX-
trcmcly so. Curran was indeed not hand.
some, with nose not Of beauty, but lie pos
scsscd an eye of fire. He wood and won the
stolen from him bya trusted friend. Lord
Broughton is considered as very ugly man,
still he has always been favoritc among the
fair sex. Shell, ugly as he was, would be
popular in female society. Poor Goldsmith,
though so extremely ugly as he was, pos
scsscd the admiration and devoted love of an
amable and beautiful girl. David Hume, the
historian, in Partisan female society, shonc,
though possessed Of an inferior face. Doctor
johnson, an out. and out ugly man, was
great favorite among the fair sex. Women
admire men who possess good hearts and
cultivated minds, careless Of their having
beautiful faces. jealousy, arising from eX-
ccssive love, is entertained to greater cX
tent by wives towards ugly husbands than
against handsomc-faccd ones. SO, ugly of
all men possess the most loving wives. See
Milton, the handsomest man of his day, was
unfortunate in matrmony: likely his beauty
destroyed the power of his genius towards
winning the hearts of his wives. a woman in
America said she would marry a certain man.
though he was so extremely ugly that She
should cry out every time she looked at him.
Women are delighted in being beautiful, as
they arc DESTROYS Of sway over the hearts and
minds of the male sex. Even the beauty Of
women resides not in mems minds on the
exterior face, but in their genius. Sir Hen
ry Raburn says, "No woman S face is worth
anything if it cannot be put upon canvas"
Pope says
What's female beauty, but an air divine
Through which the minds MI gentle grlcos shine
They, like the sun rradiate all between;
The body charms. because the soul is seen.
Hence, men are often captives OF a face
They know not why, of no peculiar grace;
Some forms. Though bright no mortal man can bear;
Some none resist, though no. exceeding fair
And Abelard would seem as conveying an
outward want of beauty in Eloise, in describ-
ing her as an tdcie noninfma." Longfrllow
would seem as recognizing the intellectually
of female beauty in making Fleming, in lily
perion," thus speak of the landlady's daugh-
ter ''She was a beautiful girl Of sixteen,
with black hair, and dark lovely eyes, and a
face that had story to tell. How different
faces are i'll this particular! Some Of them
speak not. They are books in which not a
line is written save, perhaps date. Others
arc great family bibles, with both the Old
and New Testament written in them. 9th
ers are Mother Goose and nursery tales; 9th
ers bad tragedies, or pickle-herring faces: and
others, like that of the landlady's daughter
at the Star, sweet love anthologes, and songs
of the affection"
Beauty in the material world would seem
as not an appendage of the most worthy
specimens Of creation; as for instance, we find
the most beautiful birds are comparatively
useless and without song. In the writer's
mind, the simplest flowers are the pretticst
ones. And shrubs and trees in the simplici
| ty Of color and form, would arrest the atten-
ton of the poetic minded observer Of nature
with more pleasure arising in his mind, than
more completely formed and colored ones
in viewing bring to it. In nature, there ex-
lists the grand and simple: sthe one leads to
submity, the other to the beautiful. Gran
dcur in nature, in her works and operations,
, is always associated in our minds with large