Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-11

rope may remind you of fall into
well, while to break seal may violate
your wife's or your sisters injunction.
and to break Jail or break package of
goods are quite dissimilar exercises. To
break the heart of some honest young
man may be the highest ambition of one
fair queer, while to ''break thy mind to
me, Tin a more gentle spirit, may be the
more honest motive of another. To
break good faith, to break vows, to de-
ceive, may be far from breaking your
sleep, yet when your friend bath done
this, break not your sleep for that, since
he is unworthy your confi lence. To
break a tea set. by separating it, is not
so vexatious as it is to have the maid
break il. through carelessness, and to
break flax, rs some Of us used to do,
though similar exercise, is quite different.
in its moral aspects. from breaking 'Sko
ean's" head. To break ones health is
different from breaking wa ron, though
the neglect to break the latter may be
the immediate cause of breaking the
former. To break a colt is feat some
times requiring much skill, while to break
your daughter 10 the lutte requires still
more, and of an essentially different
character. and if you grow impatient in
The task, the golden scepter, which you
alone should use, may become an iron
rod and b. leak the spirit of thy child
The man who breaks your back with too
heavy burden, may vet break down in
business and with broken heart, while
plodding wearI y along, break off stick
for his support.
To make break" as to start on: in
life, is not to break into a house or store.
as for this cause you might be broken an
10 work in the peniientiary. To break
eff bad habit, like swearing or ch-w-
ing tobacco, is not. perhaps, so easy
matter as breaking off twig. although
if vour good mamma bad broken off aud
USED. the twig, in your earlier life, this
reform might not now have been called
for To break off the horn of az tx
would require some effort, while to ''break
off yonr sins by Righteousness" won d
require still more 70 break over a
tescher's rule is not always a~ danger
Gus MS to have the teacher break his RUE
over your head To break up n court
or religious meeting may he deemed
or irreligious. VIII IL to ''break
up your fallow ground is certainly a
scriptural injunction. To break prairie
ground is not so easy n task, and We are
n little more liable to break certain
while breaking the latter,
though the ''b,eaking up Of the prairie
land may be no less a christian duty. -
To break stone with hammer is quite
different from breaking the heart, though
the heart often, so it is said, becomes as
hard rs s;one. To break the ice on
pond in mid winter TO get bucket of
water for your "beast," may be not only
a chilly business, but very difficult
task, vet more effort is often required by
a young man to get through first diff
culties in his profession or business, to
overcome obstacles and make begin.
ming, while the coldness of friends, the
uncharitableness of enemies and the in
gratitude of the Indifferent, may be
colder than polar ice and chill the VIII ole
moral nature,
To break joints, in laying floor, is
different from breaking path or road,
though both may be US d for the same
purpose. To break upon wheel of the
present day is quite different from the
one of former times, as to execute and
tnrture criminal by stretching the
victim out upon cart wheel, and then
breaking his limbs with bar of from
The break of day sometimes surprises
ns, and oftener when we have been bro
ken Of our sleep in the latter part of the
night. The clouds do sometimes seem
TO break and a deluge comes pouring
down, but this is nothing like breaking
away from your sweet heart when tears
like rain drops are breaking. To break
down in business is not 50 bad as TO
break down in sermon. The sermon
can never be mended. To break in the
ioor is different from breaking in on a
friend, though the same door may be-
ong to your friend. To break out in
strains is quite different from
breaking out with some cutaneous dis
ease, yet the infection is often great with
either. The breaking up of the ice on
he Mississippi River is often a sublime
scene. but it is. no more tumultuous than
he uomau's riuhts convention haiJ n,