Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-06-14


band was now confounded, and exclaimed,
" Plague upon learned WIFE"
ca None but a fool is always right;
and his right is the most unreasonable
wrong.
ca The truth is, everybody has, and
everybody ought to have, slight and SUI
perfcial knowledge smattering" if
you will-of more subjects than it is pos
sible for the most dilligent student to &C.
quire thoroughly.
ES The question is not whether doc
trine is beautiful, but whether it is true.
When we want to so to place, we don't
ask whether the road leads through a
pretty country, but whether it is the right
road-the road pointed out by authority,
the turnpike road.
G "a little learning is a dangerous
thing" says the poet; yet, in most SUBJ
jects, the utmost knowledge man can at
tain to, is but "a little learning" in COM
parison to what he remains ignorant of.
The view resembles that of an American
forest, in which the more trees a man cuts
down, the greater is the expanse Of wood
he sees around him.
sT In the New Atlantis" predic.s
tion-office is is supposed to exist in several
of the States, III which any sealed-up pre-
diction may be deposited. to be opened at
time specified by the writer himself.
The predictions are not made public; but
previous to the appointment of any of the
authors to public Office, the inspectors
are bound to look over the register and
produce any successful or unsuccessful
prediction, he may have made as evidence
for or against his political sagacity.
ey When Bonaparte's return from
Elba was plotted, his.partisans went all
about France pretending to seek to pur-
chase land; and when in treaty for field,
and seemingly about to close bargain,
they inquired about the title; and when
they found, as they generally did, that it
was land which had been confscated at
the Revolution, they broke off OF once,
declaring that the title was insecure
thus spreading through France the notion
that the Bourbons meditated the resump-
ton of those Landslide chief part of
France-to restore them to the former
owners. And thus most of the propritors
were eager for their downfall. II
Gg A historian needs peculiar dis
cernment for that which is important and
essential and generative in human affairs.
This is one Of the main elements of the
historical genius, as it is Of the states
manly.
gy The memory ought to be store
room. Many turn theirs rather into a
lum mber-room. Nay, even stores grow
mouldy and spoil, unless aired and used
betimes; and then they, too, become lum-
ber.
Ey An epicure is said to have CON-
planned of a haunch of venison, as being
too much for one, and yet not enough for
two. Bonaparte thought the same Of the
world. What great man he must have
been then To be sure ambition is just
as valid a proof of strong and sound
mind, as gormandizing is of strong and
sound body. a sas a 4an
ey Some persons give one the notion
of an abyss of shallowness. These terms
may seem contradictory; but, like SO
many other contradictions, they have
met and shaken hands in human nature.
All such mans thoughts, all his feel,
ings, are superficial; yet try him where
you will, you cannot get firm footing.
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