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and control, inasmuch as the real owners
most strenuousiy and sturdily aisclaim all
right, title and nrfulrictnrahip thereiu.

can; it is thought pregnant with danger TO
all time that is present, but would have bcel
extremely profitable for that which IS past
and will be highly salutary for, that which j:
to come ! therefore it has been thought ex
pedient for ali administrations which hnu
been or that 1UilJ bc,-but, by any particula
one which ts,-it is considered. like Scotcl
grapes, to be very seldom ripe, and, by tn
time it is so. to be quite out Of season.
The wlsesr man 1na be wiser to-day thai
to-day. Total freedom from change woult
| imply total freedom from error; but This i
the prerogatlve Of Onniscience alone. r Tht
world, however, is very censorious. a,lt
will hardly give . man credit Tor simplciIt,
and snglcness Of heart who is not only in the
habit of changing his opinions. but also o.
| bctterfng his fortunes by every change. But
Ter, i'll his best manner, has ridiculed this ter
] givcrsation by asking:
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds year.
Proved false again ? Two hundred more"
A certain Nonconformist, having accepted
| of rich benetice, wished to justify himself
] to his friend; he invited him to dinner on {
certain day, and added that he would then
show him eight satisfactory reasons for his
| tcrgiyersation. His friend came, and, on his
refusing to sit down until he had produced
| his eight reasons, our host pointed to the
| dinner-table, which was garnished bJ' wife
and seven children. Another, on 4 similar
% saying: %We must iive.,' Dr: Johnson
! wound have replied: IS I see no absolute nc
cessity for that.:' But il we admit this ne
cessity, it might be answered by another:
! that We must also die.
Theory is worth but little unless it can ex
! plain its own phenomena, and it must effect
this without contralicting itself:.. there
| fore the facts arc sometimes assimllated to
| the theory rather than theory to the facts.
| Most theorists may be compared to the
! grandfather of the Great Frederick, who
the gout by painting likencsses of his gren-
! adiels; if the picture did not happen to re-
| seinble the grcnadicr, lie settled the matter
| by painting the grenatller tos the picture
DE, Darwin Informs us that the reason, why
the bosom Of a beautiful woman is all object
! Of such peculiar delight arises from hence:
that NIL our first pleasurable sensations OF
warmth, sEstena1ce, and rcpoSe are derived
from this interesting source. This theory
had a fair run until some one happened to
reply that all who were brought up BY hand
had derived their first pleashrable sel'sa-
tiolS from very different source, and yet
that not one Of all these had ever been known
to cyincc any very rapturOuS or ainat0ry
emotions ut the sight OF Il 1ooot'cn spoon.
False reasoners are often best confutcd By
giving them the full swing Of their own abb
surdities. Some arguments may be- COM
pared to wheels, where half 4 turn will put
everything upside down that is attached to
their peripheries; but, if we complete the
circle, all things will be just where we found
them. Hence, it is common to say that argu-
ments that prove too much prove nothing. !
once heard Il gentleman affirm that all nan-
kind were governed by 4. a.strong and over
ruling influence. which determined all their
actions, and over which they had ITO control:
tion was, that there was no distinction, be-
tween virtue or vice. Now, let us give this
mode Of reasoning full play. \ murderer is
brought before u Judge, and sets up this
strong and oyerFuiing propensity IN Justiilc;t-
tion of his crime. Now, the Judge, even if he
admitted the plea, must, on the criminals
own showing, condemn him to death. lie
would thus address the prisoner: gu had
a strong propensity to commit a murder, and
this, yolt say, must do away the guilt Of your
crime; but have a strong propensity to
hang you for it, and this, say, must also do
away the guilt Of you punishment"
Lady Mary WORTHY 1Iontagu observed that,
iii the whole course OF her long and exten-
size travels, she had found but two sorts Of
people,-ncn and 1oonlc1,. This simple re,
human nature; but we might add that even
this distinction, narrow as it is, is now grad
1.aIly disappearing. for some Of our beauX
are initiating the women in everything that
ing the men in everything that is great. Miss
Edgeworth the Nine. dc StaE1 have proved
that there is no sex i'll style; and Mad
anne La Roche JacQueline and the Duchess
d'Angouleme have proved that there is also
rags or i'll ruf1ies, at St. Giles or St: James,
covered with the skins Of auadrupetls or the
costly cntralls Of IN insect we are III essen
,tials the same. We pursue the same goods,
and fly the same eeyiis; weloatlie md love, and
hope and fear, from causes that tditIer little in
themselves, but only III their circumstances
and notifications Hence it happens that the
irony of Lucian, the Determinations of
Thcophrastus, the strength OF Jnyenal, AID
By those who have; inhaled the clear air Of
the Parthenon, the skies of Italy, or the fogs
Of London, anu have been alike admired on
the banks Of tile Mclissus. the Tiber, OF the
Thames.
Men OF great and shining qua lities no not
always sncceeu i'll life; but the fault lies
b. onson Gs N Mas to be
producib1e man by q eourtler, and DR..
Watson was termed an llnpracticablc man
by 4 King. 4 ship may be well equipped,
beh a to sa ho nd Is t. ga put she
can neither fight with effect nor lly with
adroitness, and she must strike to vessel
less strong but more manageable; and 50 it
is with men: they may have the gifts both
also prudence and Judgment to dictate the
when, the where, and the how those gifts are
to be exerted; the possessors Of them will be
doomed to conquer only where nothing is to
be gained, but to be defeated where every
thing is to be lost: they will be outdone BY
men Of less brilliant but more convertible
qualifications, and whose strength in one
point is not countcrba1aIced by any dispro-
portion in another. Disappointed men, who
think that they have talents, and who. hint
that their talents have not been properly re-
wardcd, usually finish their career by writ
ing their own history; but, in detailing their
anixfort,tncs, they only let us into the secret
OF their mistakes, and: in accusing their
patrons Of blindness. they make it appear
that they ought rather to have accused
them Of sagaclty; SINCE It would seem
that they saw too much rather than too
little,-namely: that second-rate perform
ances were too often made the fountla-
tion for tiEst-rate pretenslOns. Disap-
pointed men, in attempting to make lis
weep at the injustice of one patron or the |
ingratitude Of another, only make MS smile
at their own denial Of a seif-importance
which they have, and ut their assumption Of |
4 philosophic indifference which they have
not.
Men whose reputation stands deservedly !
high US writer's have often miserabiy failed |
as speakers: their pens seem to have been |
enriched at the EXPENSE Of their tongues. Ad- !
olson and Gibbon attempted oratory in the
Senate, only to fail 'Thc good speakers" |
says Gibbon.. 'fitled me with despair; the |