Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-08-07
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST T. 1875

was Francis Rabelais, q French wit o
the same century, who said that by
"Robbing Peter he paid Paul." anC
told that when
"The devil was sick, the devil monl
would be;
The devil was well, tho devil monl
was he"
1t was also in the sixteenth century
that Sir Edward Coke, celebrated
English lawyer, said aFor man'l
house is his castle" and Lord Brooke
sung, "And out OF mind as soon as out
of sight" 1t was Christopher Mar
lowe, the forerunner Of Shakespeare
and father OF the grand old English
dramma, who sang to the ladies, "Lov,
me little, love me long" and told o.
"lnfnite riches in little room"
We owe to the prolific genius o.
Shakespeare, "This Is the short and
long OF it, "The words mine oysters,
I"Comparisons are odioas," CAS- merry
as the day is long" "a Daniel come tc
Judgment" at is wise father that
knows bis own child" "And thereby
hangs tale, ale needs must 10 that
the devil drives" "Why this is very
midsummer madness" "The smallest
worm will turn when trodden on,
Smooth runs the water where the brook
is deep" $50 wise so young they say
do no'er live long" "The weakest goes
to the wall, "Wc have seen better
days. "This was the most unkindest
cut Of ALL y "Stand not upon the order
Of your going" "a deed without .
name" "Frailty, thy name is woman,
81 am man moro sinned against than
SHINING" "Thcy laugh that win," and
a thousand more as good, though not
as well known.
Francis Bacon, the "wisest, greatest
meanest, of mankind said "Rnowl,
edge is power and Beaumont and
Fletcher pronounced that "What's one
mans poison, signor is another's meat
or drink" Milton tells of "Moping
melancholy and moonstruck madness, "
and also Of "A wilderness of sweets, -
"All hell broke loose, = and HThc para
disc OF FOOLS"
Samuel Butlerauth0r of " "IIudibras, y
dubbed religious creed thus "Twas
Presbyterian true blue" Dryden says,
"None but the brave deserve the fair, y
and "Sweet is pleasure after pain" lie
also warns thus "Beware the fury OF
a patient man, "All delays are dang.
erous in war" and thinks that "Men
are but children Of larger growth. "
The Earl Of Roscommon has it that
one must "Choose an author as you
choose u friend and say that "The
multitude are always in the wrong"
John Bunyan wisely reminds us that
ale that is down needs fear no fall, /"
and Thomas Southcrne "That PHYS
akin to love" Itwas crazy Nathaniel
Leo who averred that "When Greeks
joined Greeks then was the tug of
war"
Matthew Prior thought The end
must justify the means !" and Dean
Swift said Bread is the staff of life. :"
George Farquhar called " Necessity
is the mother OF invention !" Edward
Young, q very sombrc fellow, thought
that Death loves q shining mark -
he also said Man wants but little here
below, nor wants that little long" and
that "A fool at forty is fool indeed +"
he also told of "Tired Natures sweet
restorcr, balmy sleep.p Pope says
"To err rs human, to forgive divine :"
and Thompson tells Of Cruel as death,
and hungry as the grave 1t was
John Gay who said While there's
life, there's hope" and sang of cover
the hills and far away" Lawrence
Sterne thought that God tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb, and Benjamin
Franklin that " God helps them who
helps themselves" Cowper said that
variety's the very spice of life Thos.
Campbell that "Tis distance lends en-
chantment to the view" ho also said
" And coming events cast their shad-
ows before" Daniel Webster told Of q
sea ofupturned faces, /" and Washington
Irving who thought our idol was "Tbe
mighty dollar.v Byron says war pre-
sents "Battle's magnifcently stern
array !" and Keats that "a thing of
beauty is joy fcrevcr;' and last, it
was Bishop Berkeley, as English pre-
late, who, in the seventeenth century,