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;TOW'ANDA.:
Eiathrban tilorninu, 3amtarg ft, 1851.
(From Grphain'allitaga4.)
THE BURIAL OF 1001,E.
Ai IVILLLUIt effiliES /911 ANT.
Two dark•eyed maids, at shin of tlay,
Sal, where a river rolled atkay. •
With calm.; sad browi, and raventhair,
And one was pale, and both were Ifair.
Itring dowers. they sane, bring flowers unblown i
Bring forest blooms of name unknown,
Bring budding sprays from wood snd wild,
To strew the tiler of Love. the , Child. •
Close softly, w
fondly, while e refit,
His eyes, that death may seem sleep
And lay his bands, in sign t zt Test,
His waxen hands, across hut breaslt.
And make his grave where vinletsihids,
Where star-dowers strew the rivulet's side,
And blue-bird., in the mists of Spiting,
Older/less skies and Sumner sing.
Place near him, as ye lay•him low,;
His idle shafts, his loosened bow,
Theriilken band that oft around ,
His waggish eyes in mirth he wound.
But we Omit tftilorn him long and in ibs ~ _
Hie ready smile, hi. ready kiss,
The patter of his little feet;
Uweet Irowns, and stammered phrases sweet ;
And graver topics tertme and high '
A light rf hearth in that young e,
All these will haunt usoill i% he.
t t
Shall ache—and ache- , —and tears liball start.
'ma bow, the band, shall fall•to, Aid,
'F'e oliin ing arrows w.eite with ruNt,
But he whom now, from sight of men,
We l i le in earth shall Lire again ;
Shall break these clods, a rblin of ligitt,
With nobler mein and cleatcr sight, .
And in the eternal glary stand •
111th tho s e who wait at God's right hand
''THE: USES OF WOKS."
Klivered in the Sons et Temperance Hall,
BY H-3411 . , BOOTHt
!AMC; AND GENTLEME.N :—f have chosen a theme
for this eveningtwith • the finding tit ti it
r. one open, which something Might t otry profitably
rather than with the idea of posse:49lllg the
fei-ure or ability, myself, necessary to do it justice.
i trill riot, however, apologise in adtiance, either
tar my subject or manner of treating 4i —convinced,
Mat if f succeed in enlisting your attention, no
aixilogy trill be needed ; while it 1 tail to interest
nr amuse you it viral be idle to thin
roar censeie by any apology, howevel
Who, that has erCt read any thing,
be• book that [kat capirated
inscy I Perhaps* was a hittory, petl
"I the imagination—a romatice,or a
' , Ter it was, therlmpression that it pro&
mind is fixed indelibly—beyond the Fewer of time
In efface it. llitherto..the idea of a book ha.l been
lipviated-with the4risorne task of the schoolroom,
'he ferule and the sour visage of the master. Ythi
alien the yoang mind became genuinely interested
n book, a new era of - thenght stud feeling dawned
von the Fall. Than rtfatter thermal first heeanie I
acquainted • vrith. It new wafir and the thinefor
atiowledge was first aroused; a thirst as insatiable
in its nature, as the supply-. Ihrhiabed for his grafi&
!anon is tiotutillosat. With what keen telial; Uhl
ow bay tarn_itver the historic pages that opened up
' , I ht. mind the .story of ancient Greece, her philoso •
pliers, her poets, her orators and her heroes.. Anti
how did ins nerves thrill att attention of her.me....
mil:lWe battle fields *here voter fought for free).
dam; at the names of Marathon and Let:wire, of
fhetmopyle and Salamis. History was then to
16 young enthusiast, what its name purports to' be y
a veritable narration of facts ; for kondei and atli
mention filled his whole soul said left tin room for
Jr bt. Crltteleorne enough to him were the cold
!ingenious of the skeptic who presumed to quer,-
WI the veracity of the historic muse. Even.hetion
rime to him under the garb of truth and the mild
est tales of knight errantry seemed• truer to his
Youtlifal*tesperierite then the moat sober stra
tum of fact to his mature age.
In the language of poetry " Tice child is father
set the man," and happy is it for the. man if these
riaddections of the Child have, been encodrwged ;
it his thirst for knowledge, this love for the heroic
it history has been cherished ant cultivated by the
aid of proper books, opportunity and examples ;, if
nribonnded belief has at length been taught to weigh,.
diteriminate and jOdge; if chiftlisl vender bad
been moderated and chastened into jest appreeia.:
nun . if the treasures of knowledge hare been ar- ,
ringed, digested pondered 'until they Irave con
ferred upon their possessor something of the rank
and dignity of wisdom. II such is the history of
his mental growth and progress the:advantages re-
Inithig therefrom cannot easily be estimated, or ,
rather they are altogether inestimable, By acquir
mg and cultivating a taste for literature he bag se
flreff an enfailing Settee of instruction, amuse
ment and delight; which' in' the present era of
cheap books is but slightly dependent upon fortune
or exteinal circumstances. Accustomed to find his
enjoyment in the sportive exconsitmat of erre tmagi
natiOn ttt in the sober etereises of the intellect, he.
is in fittle 7 danger of resorting to gratifications of a
haieretraracter. 1 1 1 is from their ignorance of re
fined trulnobler pleasures, in general,. that men
content themrelves with. the poor gratificafitent of
sensuality aid 4' fa. thE mitts the la empty atoon
• lwecnYieir . itreary of Itself and seeks for some eater.
*Aire of excitement to retie* the tedium of
tie heavy bouts. Alined against the sedtiellorts of
'cep', •no example s or just . eoneeptions of
W'excelleut hi hurn'an eharacter,..it easily be•
tones a victim. Very different in his condition to
whose mind science anif history have laperied their
eQtesiaar knowledge and set belut&liim their bright
).
examples, who is at horse in the society of all the
Muses. If he sins at all, he sins against great light.
When be attxr i ps to visions indidgenee and vulgar
excess, it is its should nee from the last of
tfte gttils and straightway depart to wallow in filth
with swine. It Undoubtedly is, sometimes the case
that the man of letters is's-idol:is and vulgar in his
habits ; but such is not the effect of literature;
,and
it is a fit inquiry whether such t character would
not have been sometbing worse if deprived of the
humanizing and refineing tendency of literary cul
ture. The cultivation of letters upcin the broadest
and moat general Pan, never fall* refine and en•
noble and elevate the sifec' bons, as well as strength.
en kite-intellect and impro:e the judgment. The
eforApardortship o f books makes a man acquainted
with the - thoug hts and sentiments of thb bear of
men uttered in their highest moments. Bad au
thors, there may bd, and booktr - bf &onerous ten.
dancy ;' but the general seopii and influence of lit
erature in all nations and every age has been fa
vorable to the cause of vinne.
Does the man of Jitentry taste find 'society dull
and without congeniality He quietly Withdrew's,
and finds with his favotitemithors that consanguitii:
, ty.of Soul, that spiritual aliment whiCh his innerria,
cure demands, and the social - atmosphere
around him denies. Is society exclusive, anti are
the approaches to the circles °NM fashionable and
the great, barred against him ? With a tufting sum
of money he can collect around him the first corn.
pany of wits that the world ever saw, all el-fged
in their best efforts to entertain and delight him.—
Who with such resources at his command would
distress himself very much at being excluded from
the society of the reputed fashionable and polite.—
The peculiar beauty olliterature is that its spirit is
Universal. The teachings of philosophy, of history
and science, as well as the pleasures of the drama
and poetin fiction come alike to all who can tan.!er•
stand them, oflering the same kind Of enjoj merit
to the highest and the lowest : to the prince and the
peasant. They are like the beauties of universal
nature which a;e spread out for the_ enjoyment of
all her eh/Wren.-
nor esters smiles as tweet I wren.
To shepherds s to lamp,
In this connection it might be considered natural
to refer to another advantage possessed by the men
of letters, which consists in tlie; respect and defei
, ence that are auvoluntardy paid its superior literary
acquirements and knowledge. As an evidence of
the estimation placed Upon Poch ,dequirern..tcnts by
the world, its respect and deference have a kind 0 1
value. Regarded in disi light of an °derma tei the
vanity el him who -possesses superior literatat.
taitonente,they hive art importance of a ritfle4n,
character.. I;itegry fame, however, iAal.licat,only
t the shadow of a 4ubstance, and as in the care of
other kinds of fame the shadow may be verY large
and at the saute time the substance be fiery thin.
is not however with reference to these *luta
sic advantages that f choose to considct the subject
of letters or literary cohere; but I prefer rather to
confine attention to those benefits which the indi
vidual feels in the daily experience of his own
mind, of which those who know them not inks no
co.Zizance and which would remain the same to
their possessor if literature , had no name among
men, and fame no echo. The consciousness of in
tellectual growth, daily accessions of strer4th and
knowledge to the mind, clearer views of butts, to-
Tier with erveialied sympathy with the greatest
and best of mens--114se constitute the pernliar sat
isfaction and enjoyment of the man of letters, white
himself attmecan understand°, emaciate. Nave * i
io f» at a loss for aremsement or entertainment, nev
er to be lonely in the absence of society, nor . to
have the %limas of time drug heavily along during,
the intervagi of business and amidst the vacancies
of lift', iH peculiarly the privilege of the man who
'has found a genuine relish for books. There too
in adversity or when the soul is overshadowed with
sorrow, how. often Is trouble forgotten in turning
over the pages of a taconite outlaw ; and the heart
begniled of its grief. Greatness at soul to bear the
el.*, of hie without mormtg, or greatly to contend
against them. Li to sutler the sling rind arrows of
outrageous fortune, Or to take arm. against a sea at
troublet—aittl, by opposing, end them' - =this to be
sure cannot be taught by books—it must be nature.
Bot. weake'r natures may to spme extent be stayed
,
on glad! that are stronger ; a ores, by snowing
with what philc*ophy or religion others have-borne
the common as well as the tineOnnOn ills of life,
may aid us in enduring the portion of calamity that
LIN tb oer share. Nothing ti at appertains to oar
common nature should be regarded as toreign to
our sympathies or io our wants The experiences
of man,torler all circumstances eat ia every3titua.
Lion in which he may tie placed, are cr pahle of
t hrowing light on oar own pathway of life and im
parting lessons of wisdom.
Let-it not for a moment be inferred from what
we have said, that a man should become a book.
Worm In order to enjoy the pleasures of science and
literature. On the contrary it most be remembered
that the end and purpose 01 life is not 1 laced, in
thought or sunly, but in action. A man should
read and think in Order to act, and that he may act
wieety. The toncleiron whtltttrete been Mitred
at in the closet are to he acted oat on the omen thea
tre of lite where character:is observed and 'where
example tells upon the entulnetof others. No man
is 'at liberty to hate his light ender a
,bushel. Nor
can anyone enjoy its tlteir full extent benefits
.
of literry and scientific attainments without render.
ing them tributary to the welfare of his kill:tem.—
intellectoalgifis, the ireasuretrof 'the mind, tarnish
without use. The inental :ninonr must always be
Oi e ept briaht. The sword meta not be suffered to
rust in the seabbard,_ Besides it is only by action
that the dealt:shone - 41 reason and all theory can
fairly he tested. 'Many a there scholar when call.
ed by the exigencies of life to the discharge of its
sterner duties, with all his teaming haillatutil him
self in a condition like that of young David when
,he girt on the war mail, put ihi; helmet - of brass on
If/stead and aAttayett to' gcf against the Philistines,
but could nut for he hail not. proved theta.
of avediug
oes not re
ins Ctlik(lill
ps a vroal.
m. What
until on the
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..sarrtoporitradkr, ire hitiralt - undeistoodihafarnati
should' fie 11,01 bfread int into ituhallbft:eo as Vohs
cornethertiare copyist pitta thoughts, the
Mod Sentiments ot etherst s telowrii4i . ehlvateri ;they
may be. Nature• intended every. Wan to be an
original, rid that which each man can do best,
none but his Maker ban ttesch him. The words,
the writings and actions of - others are useful by way
of ang,gestion, in aiding to develops each man's/na
tive talent, be it greet or small. They were never
detiigned 10 tie heed for burying ii. All attempts to
be preminently great, or wise, or good, by imita•
tion merely, must Etter prove a failure. Nature,'
delighting to 4tattety through all her works, seta her
lace against such a thing. She designs each one
to be something of 'himself—a new production of
hers instead of a repetition of something that is
past. Only weak mind"- are an operated epee*
the superiority of another as to fall to imitating. A
strong man, white he assents to the superior ex:el
lance of another, firetiatifity 01 some
thing iu the work of Nature's hand of
which be is by itoltiians to be ashamed. Why
mould he war anti ilesticry its uuity by seeking_ to
en,grukthcreen the thoughts, sentiments' and acts of
other men which never can by any sort of magic
or conjuration become bin own 1
Having Owe far i11115k:oil in observatinns 01 a
general nature upon the uses to bh made td books,
let us now briefly consider the diflerent kinds with
a view to their relative importance. Since no matt,
though should he smut his life in reading, could
reed more than a shill! utirtioti of the txxiki
es:isCtven in his native tongue, and since the hours
that can be spared from the active duties o( life are
few, and since life itself,
“ emtt scrior•
Theo Jae to look about as sad b duc,”
one consideration must be impressed arm the
mind at the outset, namely, the inipcntanro bf a
good selection. :ft -is not my desigij.to'six.cify any
particular authors as being specially worthy or at
tentibn, tan I abaft aim tatailicrate those sublitets
that arechietty desert , i4,1 - if regard, and of a high
there is most shame that a man 'should be igne:
Mut.
In the departments of literature, ltkory endonbt
eilly stands first in iinportaere, nor, the medium
whereby the experience of mankind is handed
down hem qv to age, wad Al rootaining is itigar
nered treasures ail that now trillaino of nabonsend.
families of naLorei that babe passed Sissy. Beau
ty is to the rate what the faculty of memory is to
the individual. The race of man has had its la
tency or petted rorrespbnding sto•that reason in the
Itle of the intlivitlinde Recollecion retains but fee
bly and by fragments the events of that early ma.
4rteta'aud dadinessoverhourg the ormiwiroth
of the rani and id each-individual mind, anti nei
ther history in the one cage,. her Memory M tLe
other will reveal to us from whence we came, To
Maim and to senswall tr doubt and , enbittaitity
but Leith whisper it was from God. According to_
the most generally rectairs*l calculating* the race*
min has existed itpon the earth near .six thoust4l
y ears.
.Profane history, so called, speaks widen
voice more nr less articulate lox a period. of more
than four, theasand years, and its faintest in-cents
the away in the distant age& &red history takes
us back still farther, even , , to the beg i nning. Du-'
ring this vast period, what natio:se and systems hare
had their Hite and tall, what religious !are inured
, etirldll Pwrithektidtakcities have been built and
crumbled mintiest, yrhat nralutious, gene* moo
lations, couguestit and einigsation have taken piece,
ofs..gto kumiq Pre litlikPenubboinled and eieture
navigated the glotwon which we dwell—ell these
are handed down Inns upon the historic page, and
.eousiingte one• g4and apirlmeukey uptat the mi.
Lure ofmart. Earth, individual may road and ander
belmsseettes in his own bream, in the
the passions, the thoughts and the impelses that ste
llate him, OM key Inc the sohNott Of every prob
lem in history. Whale boot of interesting associa
tions to the'Scholar arise at mention of the names
of Nineveh, Babylon, Thebes, Troy, Tyre, Palmy
re, Antioch, Athens, pyrantium and Home- And
hdw stint:llJ l• 'moaned it wilful ignorance must be
the mind thalean remain iMitent without so much
as an outline of the events that have been transact.
e4l upon globe. white our race has inhabited during
so many ages The brute artimalitollows the iu
stitiCts of hlf native, seeks its sustenance, propa
gates its kind arils fill* its place. as a link in the
chain of being to whlth it belongs, without a
thought of what has gone before or what - shall fol.
low. But front man something more than this is to
be expected. 11 it. not,for him th lake things as a
matter of counte, 4 .ll'itiaDi thelnieiligent inquiry a by
the) are so era how they might be difterrrit. The
system of things in whit* we now lire is bet a link
in the sari chain of eanienod effect re:deb began
from (lid, rindwhich extends through countless ages.
The existeneinefeeerythingthessituiris, is pretli.
eaten( upon the existence of everything that furl
been. uut.i rlAt
To 04; the form of republicanism that we enjoy
in . the4tslMes, Seems a 'pew diftti; and we cele.
brale.itin Aiew,spaperfacograer, and fourth of Jo
ly orations, and with mock noise tif gentleman.
Perhaps ten of us are really aware how much this
boasied libtrty of6ur's, for wli;c11 w p areilloprwed to
take all the err n So ourselves, juts :ia'st . ; dim' what
tribulation and seas of blood. the human Voce had
travelled; how many martyrs to the cause of rill
.pion, science and fieeilorh; bad fallen, how many
sages bad written, and heroes bled, below it be
fame pos= las-in-the march of ages fora tuition of
statesmen to arise, vllOll4O tOgb'Veming,themsehres,
and rd ilenjoyln4eifirdral liberty, based upon equal
ity Oiwohrdiation, here in the 19111 cep
tory, dates its origin from the first man who lem
ma! tri Smelt the rough ore, and extract therefrotu
*Witold Metal to bir used hi Making tools for the
conning artigger, or 'woiker in wood and &Mr and
Prom him who first , Snipped die under . bark uni
manufactured ittilhres itito those ncedfolganments;
which in
,11 , iter times have been tOperstiled by 110
costly draper) of wealth awl Widen. Evety art
that conitibutcs to our present cornfiiit and coure.
mence, tly- that helixe lci atlqm tlnclliteliittify, par so
cial Ilte„ teed - toducedl in the course Of ages,
at infinitO coat an t i labor. Our present civilization
is in the direct ,line of iibabent, from that of ancient
Nineveh 'and Tyre. It 414147414 We to build -Itnag
nificent etties now, because magnificent cities ogre
built ages ago tvhieh have crumbled into dust to
gether with their founders. Our arts, our invert.
firms, ourlinstitutions, and oar laws as well as our.
selves are descended "ram tut ancestry of most re.
Spectable antiquity. Nothing is entirely nei , r, btu
every thing is a growth, an 'olf-stinot-'or develop- .
meat of scimething,that has gone before. The pre
sett order, of things strikCi deep root into the (ohm
dation of an ordef that has passed away. To tract;
this grundt , law of cansli and effect, or development,
as it is exhibited in the human race.,to observe how
the civilization of our age grows out from that of a
prcce.hoc j age, to watch the tldvelovhnent of jos
' tics as erObralieil fit thb Ititris ottlifk , rent ages : to
see what Glirms of governthent and systemS of reli
gion have 'ettecessively appeared, and note what
progress has been made from age to "le, in civil
and . religious liberty, this surely is an:mlytritigation
worthy of the human mind, molt tbii Is involved in
the study of history. Nothind*iso so much .enlar
ges aria expands the Mind, imparting the power to.
jedge carelessly of {owing events, and to give
eatl new object that is presented to-view in the
woild's shifting scenes ha due consideration and
importance. !thing so much elevates the soul
above the little accidents of fortune, preserving its
eqigeoise in every situation. timitiet 46fi g g or
oover . "The mind that is familiar with the wothra
history is rot likely to be carried away by entliti
siann lawvitism, or by popular evraragance of
;Any That which the maSses do blindly, he
discovers to be in accbrtlance 'with unalterable
laws, and whether the eitr is it:. perte or the per).
pie rage anti imagine vain things, 'Whether the
temple of Janus is shut, or the, horrid din of tilt,
salu es his ears, he is undisturbed; he recognizes
in.bistory as well asthre passing seesiei before him,
Irwitich are shortly ;o become Fuch s the hand of aii
ecif prebent God.
Next to the rtudy of hiMory and eohjointly with
,those books that treat or the ditTerent departments
oracle:lre, enfolding the laws of the ma.e.sill, the
moral and intellectual wmld, demand the attention
of him who would treasure up valuable knowledge.
The phenomena rittlre natural world have alWrits
been the subject of observation and tinily. The
serene attnn-phbre that we breathe was:bre:rifled
by the MMient Assyrian. 14 looked forth upon an
environment of earth and "lies iu,riiest :epee's dm
satire kith our own. The same nylon and stars
over his head, the rummer eloutht beautifying; the
Ifininaneitt and icre angij s (win?! eating
rain and hail, the docks on tire bills, and the t3-bea
in the rrea, ligtenings and earthquaksi t s, to well as
the gansitore of the fields mid the autumn
—there and the thousand other pte'netnena of No
turti, 'tere ob;ects as familiar to the earliest of man
kind, as they are to us. Th,.riets of creation we're
atwoys th itre on elver._ hifld voltin, elstervatuin •
1 / 4,
and study. The knowledge' which mankind has
acn i niml respecting the nature of things and the
bawd t - i which they - aie . , governed constitutes the
pec l uliar treasure of tatienee. The son sod moorr to.:
gether with it ere brilliant points seen by night in
thitefirrnanentiabove, from the earliest period at•
ipleted the eye of mani a ittl hence arose the se1•:
elate cif astronomy; the oldest. the most dutilittte,
44 ,i-oi ax the most useful of at! the sciences. tt i th
the as:4state° thereof, the mariner crosses the
tracitless ocean tclflrt !et:Tilde(' [ion, beir:ng the
Aches of eileurterce, together with newly invented
aria from country to country, making the whole
race the reciptrints of a cornmoribleising. Aftc.y
arid importer t are its bearittt,t upon the whole eh--
CIO trf the seitinees, upon government, religion and
the ante. And great too, ii its power in elevating
and etpanding the 'Mod, in subduing and Chasten
lug the feelings into a holy harmony with ilndiora;
tale Nature in her grandest mood. Splendid and
elevating beyond all other splendid sights, ever to
the uninitiated, is the appearance of the starry hea
vend opCt a tl-Cate;s night. Rut when to this ex
hibition thus presented to the eye,
.k added the tee
flection that each of those shining points i 3 a P.&
and OSitos of a stopend.rits system o f 3 ,4 0/ 1,1,:, rind
that it afi thrisd sans and systems that we visible
to the unaided eye, were blotted tram 'existence
they would srareely be missed from the Immensi
ty of the number, and the limber reflection that by
the same Almighty Intel cute, that wheels those
tionderrms orbs through the rerdmi of space the ve
ry hairs of our fre'ada are all numbered—surely the
mind that-can contemplate these rttul.,Wther kiinlied
thoughts that astronomy 51r,p4e$::., v Afloat emotion,
must be incapable of any noble sentiment or gene
rous feeling. Kell has it been said that It the on.:
&trent astrunomer is mad:" The stars hie been
fitly denominated the poetiy of heaven'. To'the
roftronelifer, flit poet, the saint, the moralist and the
phih*oplier. three 'shining mkt have ever bfreet . 4
Theme for study, for pions and poetic rapture, for
speculationarul wonder. Nit ht t 3 411 her null,' wit •
nesses Over head, his ever been the chosen sea
eon fur reflection, arid Mgh resolve. •
Beneath her artlrmn irmplo mrtf
Pindn ein.ka in t.n.e inipreannrr.
And (Indult... *ertvri hit It.rtolrel ertrar ,
' To tornifnero rnpnrr
Yet rrit• 'Tint F a ris hit. n.iNrrni v ail. -
1 e ere no fferietrit rhetttehtl Imo":
•t Winano. ye awn I beyond the pate
Ot raid men and stern cusbnicd!
An ye innnorto) , do yr Above
The deathless. rniurr ihr wool •
' MOH "44% Own Rower, beforn ?
Minnlto kat", deaf dee4i
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Cati oar Ohnnge.nr are% nt Marla
Lekliof üba Wised ! on your .ea of • .
ir 11411 nilfikilltg yet ore r '
Moot indrlrro of Or things dial te
And neatest itutrattotitl,
The
s Sabianot of old . worshipped the Ann anti
Awn anti all the host of the heavenly bodies, It
w 4v . •
as a hint riloretry, alll6fiolt it mistook the
pealed form fur the• orrea'or. The or , rnhili
that, hrthe absence of better inlinttnation, adopted
04, symb o l s of th e inlh!;te Power and Inteltwneit,„
trianitesteti in the eni-rerse4ed nothing in It that
low or disiTtipting, even to 4m!n , own m6fs: •Ae
tionurny by penahatinz, those awful depths of space
anti scanning the bcidies fl> tie.tre *e!n_lets
bed.i t ite divinities of thessfliCienti of Their gldry ;
and .try demonstrating toe:harmony that prevails
among those 'Mallet Worlds; in obedience to the
nniventdl latrir of gravitation, has proved them.serr
sibly to be under the ~domittion of the one Gail of
Nature. The4likoveriee olestmriorny are beyond
liotibt'the crowning achieiroments of the hi:IMA
Nothing else that it has ever accomprtsherl,
conveys so exalted an idel k. of its powers. As the
mudy isthe moat sublime ilff all pursnae, so it has,
in every age, employed• the best talents that the
world has prodtreed. it is estimated that them are
not now living upon the earth, above a dozen men
who can read and fully comprehend
. the works
of the great French astionoiner La fllttne. The
Gods upon mount Olympus • are fabled: by Greek
and Roman poets, to have Mt apart from earth oth
er, conversing at awfulllistances. So the great as
tronomers of wded,Pathagotas,Pdomey .Coper
nice*, Gallileo, Kepler, Tycho Braehe, La Piece,
Newton, and Herschel, sit each ipart upon his
watch-fowerot the skies, !canning the heavens
with long and patient observation; or else engaged
in the Intilrematicial problems that require the la
bar of years, for their solution I nod they ennoence
to each other and to thegrorld, from time' to time,
thestupereluoutt results 01 their investigations. Bur
though the more lifilcollg/mbierall of estrottOrnicdl
science . , require the higliest,teder of talent as well
a. th e m ost pati ent investir,d'ioni yet descriptive rue
trcrnorny, and the main facts developed by this sci•
mice can be read and understood by all. And is it
aot the most strange of all strange things, that there
are thoumnds of intelligent - men—intelligent so fur
as, regards the hrinesiroperat ions of life--who walk
the earth, and kern whom the splendid exhibitbe
in the heaven over their heads, scarcely receives
more tlL'ari d erinsual übserrtition 't Surely it must
be said or such that, in mailer sense than the one
intended iu rite scriptural, "they are of the earth,
earthly:l
It would bb tedious., besides Elquiriteg, Me to
tretapaso I;eyerni the linos prerperke a discourse
1-ke the present, were I to point out separately the i
the advalitays to he derived horn an acquaintance i
With each department of natural science. tine ad
vantage they all possess in comment; th at .of . en- I
Waging the mind by the cont./tuna:anon of solid 1
and substantial katauleilftnt the Creetor'S works,
3. 1 / 4 1 through his m.orks - 60.44 treater Itinnielf. The l i
subjects of these scieticea are the facts around% in i
Nature, claisitied and arranged, nigether , %vith the - 1 1
priziciples discovered
by bug observation and tor- I
ily of those 'facts. Starting trtyri this solid haSis I
there is little comparative danger of errot. The
mind is trot expased to etre hazard of grasping _ at
t.
itnsub4Unial shadows tvli4e in pursuit tit LioW
' ledge. Tee facts are then mails rhatiioait to nu:
seises; disclosed by ilia telescepe, chronicled in
the strata of the solid rock, or deancussaateil horn
,the alembic. System% at metaphysics, the p:o i
doction of human ingenuity, forms of religion, the ,
work of the vain imaginatien of men, may change 1
or fall and be superseded by others, but the stem, 1
soul facts of nature,terhain for ages,cataltered. Nt
tysteni of philaSnplry, teligich * trietaaDYsies ever
has Leeu, or ever will be able to stand in edntra- '
diction to the clear unmistateable .truths of natural
science. r‘talVt•O is hcttre3f st revelation hem the
Dieine fraud, of most vinopestionableauthentietty
and the record which she beans of her maker is
true, There ispo contradictical,kl be found in , Alk, l
her volume..
_Whatever else lays claini to verity
.or, to .Divide original, wilt be found either to liar- '
monike with her out° be misapprehended, or false.
She is petite/natty challenging . orpearaocei of eve-
ry !tied to the prOof. The solid anglitarny of her
facts itianils . jrcinfotable while the airy systems that 1
human ingenuity bas construeleil, the swept envier! 1
against it, and dissipated like misty clouds, borne
against the mountains. The forms of error and
fatsehixxlmare innumerable, hut none of them con
-1 (lame. - An error is promulgated to day, which
alarms all Chr:stendom, and threatens to subvert
the foundation of social order ; but Nature moves
Oil in her everlasting circle, and soon the error be
comes a forgotten superstition, or a poetic fable.
without power In molest or mislead tine weakest
brothel. flow Cuireee.:fry was all our alarm ; even
as the foolish apprehensions of children who fear
but that the mountains will fall open them. lt new
truth is iliskori! , red and predefine:: to tbs. world
turd again the. fears of men 'ere amused, the here
sy condemned, and the . artillery of the Church
brought to bear tor its soppression. Bet Nattire.
121'ot:sand Voiced as Ara ;24, is not thus to be stilled
-in the utterance of her laws, Vitheri h er owii go o d
time to publiA them has come ; anikihough Galli
leo on !be rock may be. kneed t0..-Zeny that the
earth tarns on its asis,Jaill i% . hints, and all the in
quisitions in , the world_ eamtat
as
?fie milli
Oace uttered , fur nature owns it as here and every
other troth liannoutzetr with it.
...., . . •
!tri.r.mt 11tOrift4. A alVir firg,
i'weileßtigte• *t. did 46'111 in the mine
chop rut dtit "%aeNteet in ?
111irs. 1C _u Hoof, ‘inman: nae irrinder at a*:'
Mrs. -LoWeal'how aid it Iniiipen f"
Mrs t-. "ru lett fog litw : it hattened. Ye
mann ken, When Taut and Mie tteggli tiimrirtum.
tlize we took paritch, night and morning, and tail
to ont t4mner—when things greie better, we l ee k
tea to 'itei Ineakfast. A weet, ViOrtlPll, Things aye
meottek . mnt &+h - a i;?mb.reg rui a
Sunday tiinner,..itai; before , lcieg; .Op, filTle
timeS eoft a eitnekiewe were doing tine Weal
Non. fir maw ken, when Johnnie. began to met
ettanne, hb begtufit the chniiie'fi`rst."
" Poesy, is walls aromd forts any relation
Sheep f 9 " my lose. Why 'do you ask-r—
-" Cattier-1 lima Unt le Bob tolling, about the TM
parts of a fort, the other 414 ?"' "Be finial, Child, I
mat go to your ma.7 — u-Birt Poppy, them : ire men
par% Ballem they "No MY elrilii —•
.W4hit en eatth put., that into your, fie!drt , u W hy.
eo Vi t ae said when he was fo Flanders one %sight,
he was obliged to 541 e the tampacs!"
MEI
DAILY HA arrs,..nr %mix Vrevoitth.—The'persert- •
al daily habits of file Qneen arid hei tensity ate err-,
meltingly simple and plain. Breakfast is over by _
nine, th en a eon* of 1144 i are
. 4evotert to the pet
mild of 'tenets and the 4 despatch bf Jn=iness i "-
trhirh of reading ate -trade ;tribe
doctiments aluth she has to sign: Between twelve
and two, the Qeeen and tier family &tally *elk
in the I -fit-ate emends of the palace, flitTbe fine
the weather dues not perMit of out door • exercise,
Prince -Albert anti she applying thernselvea to draw.
ieg and etching.. liothitare acquired skill •in that
use of the.guiver, rind hatre a small press put op its
one of ; the rooms of Buckingliam`pilarm at which
they work with their own hands. A printout- of a
set of royal etehinds is Considered.' a very especial „,
compliment, anti Prized as tech. I knoti dial the '•
Dochass of Bevlktrd'ebentleir, of Woburn Abbeybs
hung round with the royal etchings. borne of them
are neatly dime--moat of them in good drawing.—
All of them ate cotriereiiies its seTt l inrs4l of royal all •
and industry. fietikeen 2 and a. :the royal part . .
runt h . Tbia,repast—which is,'ln tart, au early din
ner—it is a very private our. The • Queen, Prince
Albert, Princess. Royal, mad - Priebe of Wales sit
lon to a single inint,, (usually a roast shoulder of
mutton,) and d tew AIJe ili'ithes. There is a very
little slot paytaken of -tat- this weal. t Wtitii it is -;
euJed Prince. Albeit goes ihtrther.garden, (tor the
Qneen allowirno smoking Within her walls) and
disposes of a couple of cigars. Whflb the roy at
luncheon is going, on, the aubiltiants at the palace,
who are very numerous,-taketheir"dinner— a p'.aitt,
strbstatitial betas , n v t . which the liveried-oertanta atit
allotted ale. For dioie'cif a higher rank, the al
lowance is halt a pint of wine to each. '• I happen
to know that when any -article are at work or ill
wealth?, at the palace at the tionrkil lunch, meat i4t
served hp ,to them, iinil hail a pint of sheet Y '
ia
broUght up for each. This is very aiderent twin
the waste whit•lt did prevail in. the royal henSeinahl, •
and Queen Addaide was the Bic to pin a check
. 10
It. r lte tdto got indignant at the female serviws
wearing silks and satins, and caused a menial rt - .••
volt by ordering them to wear muslins anti studs,.
The economy of ail household how allows 'the
Queen to sat e Aunt half dig tnoi!ey lent:tally i oted
fur its maintainaitte. Thesb Oaring. nib .con;i4er
-1 able, and being duly invested, ate rapidly accents. .
latir.g. Then, in additiim to his 430,000 a yat,
allowanee Cohsutt, mote has been 4 irr t l•
to Pt ince Albert itt rations appointments, the has
a day as field marshal.] and as he doer tit t
~speud4 . loo,ono a year, his savings mast be glom.
There is a thud hope that he stmt the Queen Mean •
to appropriate this Money to the rutin* pentiens of
their children ; and not rt..,k the people lb i.lippoit •
them.:
IS YOU R NA3I F. BOW Or oar ae=tern etc
change,: relates an amnetr4 story on the ttivhtority
of the eaptaen of a Marissiptri eteatrlET:
. •
" Ad; Whit, and fdtrifttiiai purbitnif old gentfe
man, paiing ii drat down the ripper - ealtsiSit; stop
pad in front of a large full )engtit mirror ; flied .stet
gazing at fthtt egfird presented for a momentertirr•,
ingtlir&l in 4 vert tial/behitit hitie•="lo taitr inert*,
Bititrr?" No awnrer. QuegtiOn repeated harder
-="le !ma- name Brown .t" Stit itoitnewer. (bee.
Lion. repeatedloadefStili—"lS TOUR iraiis itaotcs
no :Lauer. Well," said the queitioner,
uron are either noxentleman, or caned tUrkt""
Sirsav or gPfnittr.-;-4n niiiveritty doctor, Me
nrim
rising to see bird Cnial 0 elerrise his employ
ment, nem niml him In the field. As POORI .14
he P.lir the blots, hO hollowed in Latin, "'Them
they are." 'The sportsmen, inditniant dill shows
<lily of the professor, told hint of it in kery plain
Writs. " tiy good. frienil,i' eielalined the doctor,
in astonishment, " who,wctold hive itivagined that
those Ignorant toed' would, hate onfienaeoll.Latitil
" What dot oU edit a Public sphlteirindicrishrle!"
iske I one of these pTtiloiriphers who are general
ly found Eit :it ivg on' a of timber, of a warm
night, in Mint of some o:finished building. " A
public Epiritetl indiw idirle'? iYht, when I was a
boy it roved t n iiiiliwidirle who woulil do for this
public whatever he could, now it means an inteir
witlfirle who w.II dtrthe public whenever he can 24;
llscoNv - mkrmlir itasTa —A Clain merchant, meet.
ing one of his oven fraternity the other day, raliose
pony might be cortsiderett as a beamilol Apeein ett
of an trine skeleton, remonsttand with the own
er:and asked:hien it lie, ever fed him. "Farr
fed !lint ! Ines a an'OV nn,:' was the reply; " he's
got a Umbel and a 'all o' oats at home - now, ooly
he ain't g 431 no lime lo cif 'eta 1"
• A Soot billy ; how , a-1;3 you
kern yO 4 rr Bnvi'
t
'4 F*.a;y enough,'? Pahl Billy.
0 1 s'int.e m tnu , how rs •
" 1 zneef4 toted Intl you'd et it had " been whar
milli! wt.."
" Mot don't orOnver my evrevqicm !"
" Wa I, pf you rtmet kno.ce," F:thl Witty, " 1 ftiLl
to cot it off eLle 'via ; the trop"
4 ' Fim►era vont lie► rilObey 7" watered 2 seedy
_en ins holding on to a lamppost. LI V. II perhap,
they roof; bit I see a• fie rte as vont stain) any
horn''
< • -
A -rural porn. in describing his latly.loce, ray•
she iA .1A graceful ;ma water while her breath
smells like as armful of clover. ttis case is veg.
ininiy approaching a erisisr:
Ta feed ttte.iactil &stare it is liungiy, ;ire it
rest tsernre it is weary. and to we'eti it Gefore it be-.
fora if iStebtivel fine, are the bent evidtelces of
farming
-Elocution a ilbnot create mina, bat elki! and
bring itObt. It wilttto more—it w ill r Line r . t•i.
•
invigorate' it.
if a - man could }ewe his tri...4lm:, he vrotilkl
hii truubliv..
w.ftlml)-eto
1 r -
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