Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-02-28
GRANT COUNTY HERALD
what Young Men can Accom-
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pisssi.
Rev. II. III. Painter, Of Bloomvil'e, Mis-
souri,, lately delivered q lecture to the
Young men of that city, which they have
published, from which We take an extract;
Az already remarked, history shows
that. with few exceptions, the most emf
nett deeds have been accomplished before
the actors reached their fortieth year.
The history Of heroes is the history Of
youth. 81
trhe greatest and most magnificent o.
Popes. each reached the chair at ,li'. =,
seven. Loyala, like Wesley, worked with
vorno brains. Al thirty he made his PHI
arin1aoe. and wrote The spiritual kxer-
eisen Pascal rivaled Euclid at sixteen
and died at ;hirty-seven, the greatest OF
Frencbmen. Bacon conceived the design
of his immortal work in his sixteenth year.
Burke laid the foundation for eloquence
in his twenty-soventh year; and IN his
twenty eighth, composed his celebrated I
treatise on the sublime and Reautlfuli."
Coke, by nature an intellectual giant, when
a mere youth could overcome, by his close
and original method of augmentation, by
bis ciearness of Judgement and quickness
of perception, the most learned disputants
of bis time. Richelieu was Secretary OF
State at thirty-one. Pitt and Bolingbroke
were Prime Ministers before other men
leave off cricket.
Mozart composed at six. At seventeen
he gave to the world some Of the most fin
iahed and celebrated creations that ever
e1nanated from his gifted and beautiful
mind. Alike distinguished in youth wa;
the ;llustfious Weber; the we'll known
Hayden The prince of song; the music ar
list, Handel, whose 'Messiah" is chantec
in almost every Christian church from the
rising to the setting sun. The painting, o
Raphael before his twenty-seventh year
rendered his name immortal. Chatter
ton,
tsThat marvellous boy,
The seepless soul that pclished IN bis pride"
before his eighteenth year, by a suicides
hand, Lad lived long enough to take ranl
among England's sweetest poets, and to be
regarded as the greatest literary antigua
rian of his day. Pope, "lsps in numbers
Barns, p1owman of Ayrshire, but the poet
Of the world, published some of his most
exquisite productions before his twenty
seventh year. Byron, the gifted, but mis-
guided, the brilliant meteor, in the heav-
ems of genius composed many of his
choicest pieces before his thirtieth year.
What shall say mole, of the heaven
taught Pollock; the painfully sensitive
White; the profoundly learned Calvin
and many others whose names the world
will not let die? The two former COM
posed s'The course of Time and the
Stars of Bethlehem" and the latter his
"Immortal Institutes" before they had
reached their twenty fifth year.
Time wottld fail me to tell of the in
stances in our own history, of young men,
who, cultivating the elements Of power for
noble purposes, occupied commanding po-
sitions: Of jefferson, who, at thirty-three
penned-and of Hooper, who, at twenty
Corr, and Of Gerry and Haywood, and
Rush, and Wilson, and Thornton, an0
MiQUletOD, anu CCOile, WIN, ie 'iiii ~ VIC
signed-tho Declaration of independence
ct the many hero youth ofthc Revolution
of the stars that have shone bright in on
political, religious, literary and mechani
cal sky; of Clinton, who at thirty-one dug
the "big ditch" of Hamilton, who al
thirty-two organized the United States
Treasury upon so complete and colnpre
hensive plan, that no great change has
since been attempted; of Jay. who al
thirty-two was Chief Justice of the State
Of New York, of Story, who ut the same
eye was Judge of the Supreme Court Of
the United States; of Douglas, who, tho
still young, has worked his way up from q
cabinet shop through all the Offices in the
gift OF the people, until he is in sight of,
and possibly may enter, the White House
of many others, who have so interviewer
their lives with he events Of their cor,n
try, that the o.o cannot be written withou;
the history of tho other.
Think not these positions were reached
by genius alone. Genius they had-5ut
combined ,oitb hard ,pcrk.