Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-16

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE COMMONPLACE BOOK
THE LATE LORD NEAvEs.

oBsERy ATOMS FROM THE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF
THE LATE LORD NEAvEs.
Nature creates and destroys. She does
not save.
Of CASTELAR, "Too little root for 50 much
foliage"
There among the hills lies graveyard SO
old that the earth has forgotten its sorrow.
always appears as the tail of little man
and the feeble advocate off losing cause.
Hatred of theology and botany is pretty
certain evidence that one loves religion and
flowers.
In modern times trade assures the health
ful mobility of peoples as conquest and pill
grimage used to.
A Spartan son complained that his sword
was too short. His parent recommended him
to add a step to it.
| An American congressman whom he met
at dinner calculated" that the correct
translation of Sans Souci was mo sass
| An English tourist asked the brother Of
Canoya, the sculptor, after the latter's death,
if he intended to carry on the business -
To review it "a work on evidence by L. G.
a writer to the Signet,) would be to waste
criticism or helpless, unresisting imbecii-
ty.
Pride is the pague-sign of destruction. 1t
| readily infects feeble mental constitutions
Strong ones resist it. None are proof against
| it.
Lord b. married, as he thought, beneath
him, but he preserved proper spirit of pride,
and would never speak to his wife in COM
pany.
The originator or vivisection seems to have
| been Herophilus, of whom Tertuilion says
| that he dissected more than GOO living men.
OfCalthrop, noted tuft-hunter, he said ::
THE best bad man in England. He never
tells an anecdoto of fanybody under the rank
| of a marquis"
OF the French, Coleridga says that they
are like grains of gun-powder separately,
smuttv and contemplate, but mass them and
they are terrible.
1t is curious Illustration of the truth
that force operates through the line of last
| resistance that so many dull Scotchmen
choose intellectual employment.
Men in all ages are of about the same sta
ture and length of days. and are alike in
this, that few are wise and the majority
fools. They are probably stationary natur-
| al production.
AL ON dspNCl vi ICscENC WulCu Is
monty considered a sign of fullness is some
times token of emptiness. The owl looks
wiser than Voltaire, but he has nothing to
say except "Hoo ~
A dreadful gloom preyades the hall in that
crisis of proceedings when parson-like fig
ure, long and hollow-breasted, rises and says
that the question naturally divides itself into
| sixteen parts.
1.-TWO invisible angels walk ever beside
her on either hand. They are voluptuous-
ness and death. "-AfuRgr. 1.-TWO senti-
nels ever protected the aged and the wise.
they are everence and fear "-Socrates,
Nothing good is ever reached without la
Dor nothing great is ever won without toll
| if thou seeketh the fruit from the earth thou
must tend and tell it if thou longest for the
love of men thou must do them good.
Fragments of Scottish prayers "Oh,
Lord, We would not presume to dictate" of
an event accomplished "Oh, Lord, it was
thy will it would have been mine. Never
theless. if it is from thee, after thy full de-
liberation, we bow to thy decree"
Concerning the uncertainty OF the origin OF
the gypsics, he says perhaps each nation
| deyelopes its own. The order of yagabondage
grown ancestral would certainly draw to and
incorporate within itself all the local elements
of vagabondage."
Why should Lear have complained of his
| daughters The atoms of mans body, king
| or slave, are not faithful for an hour to the
structures ofwhich they form a part. That
which was accretiou yesterday is decretion
to-day, and to morrow is a remote and chang
ing alienation a passing part of all earthly
| forms and substances with no enduring fdel-
ity to any.
French elegance is too elegant and reminds
one OF the Griseth who was dressed so finely
tnat she could not sit down. Its heroism is
too ostentatious and oratorical. Nothing OF
the nation is sincere except its frugality and
industry. 1t deals with the wit and learn
ing OF other nations as it does with their raw
| products. 1t casts them in smaller and neat
er forms, but the qualities it adds to them are
not always better than those it takes away.