1. Constant occupation-shuts out temptation. 2. A flatterer-is a most danger ous enemy. 3. Unless we aim at perfection, we shall never attain it. 4. They who love the longest, love the best. 5. Pleasure-is not the rule for rest, but for health. 6. The President is but the head-servant of the people. 7. Knowledge—is not truly ours, till we have given it away. 8. Our debts, and our sins, are generally greater thar we suppose. 9. Some folks are like snakes in the grass. 10. He-injuries the good, who spares the bad. 11. Beauty will neither feed or clothe us. 12. Woman's work is never done. Proverbs. addresses itself to the 41), DELIVERY mind rough two mediums, the eye and the ear: hence, it naturally divides itself into two parts, voice and gesture; both of which must be sedulously cultivated, under the guidance of proper feeling, and correct thought. That style is the best, which is the most transparent; hence the grand aim of the elocutionist should be-perfect transparency; and when this part is attained, he will be listened to with pleasure, be perfectly understood, and do justice to his subject, his powers, and his audience. 411. YOUNG GENTLEMEN,-(said William Wirt,) you do not, I hope, expect from me, an oration for display. At my time of life, and worn down, as I am, by the toils of a laborious profession, you can no longer look for the spirit and buoyancy of youth. SPRING is the season for flowers; but I-am in the autumn of life, and you will, I hope, accept from me, the fruits of my EXPERIENCE, in lieu of the more showy, but less substantial blossoms of SPRING. could Anecdote. What for? After the close of the Revolutionary war, the king of Great Britain--ordered a thanksgiving to be kept throughout the kingdom. A minister of the gospel inquired of him, "For what are we to give thanks? that your majesty has lost thirteen of your best provinces ?" The king answered, "No." "Is it then, that your majesty has lost one hundred thousand lives of your best subjects?" "No, no!" said the king. "Is it then, that we have expended, and lost, a hundred millions of money, and for the defeat and tarnishing of your majesty's arms ?" "No such thing," said the king pleasantly. "What then, is the object of the thanksgiving!" "Oh, give thanks that it is no worse." says 66 not have been tempted hither, for the puerile purpose of DISPLAY. My visit has a much graver motive and object. It is the hope of making some suggestions, that may be serviceable in the journey of life, that is before you; of calling into action some dorVarieties. 1. Who does not see, in Cemant energy; of pointing your exertions to sar's Commentaries, the radical elements of some attainable end of practical utility; in the present French character? 2. "A man," short, the hope of contributing, in some never rises so high, Oliver Cromwell, small degree, towards making you happier as when he knows not whither he is going." in yourselves, and more useful to your 3. The virtue, that vain persons affect to descountry. pise, might have saved them; while the beau 412. The conversational-must be deliv-ty, they so highly prized, is the cause of their ered in the most natural, easy, familiar, dis- ruin. 4. He, who flatters, without designtinct, and agreeable manner; the narrative ing to benefit by it, is a fool; and whoever and didactive, with a clear and distinct artic- encourages that flattery, that has sense ulation, correct emphasis, proper inflections, enough to see through, is a vain coxcomb. 5. and appropriate modulations; because, it is The business of the teacher-is not so much not so much your object to excite the affec- to communicate knowledge to the pupil, as tions, as to inform the understanding: the to set him to thinking, and show him how argumentative, and reasoning, demand great to educate himself; that is, he must rather deliberation, slowness, distinctness, frequent teach him the way to the fountain, than carpauses, candor, strong emphasis and occa-ry him to the water. 6. Many buy cheap, sional vehemence. No one can become a and sell dear; i. e. make as good bargains as good reader and speaker, without much practice and many failures. Ploneers. The " eccentric" man-is generally the pioneer of mankind, cutting his way the first-into the gloomy depths of unexplored science, crcoming difficulties, that would check meaner spirits, and then--holding up the light of his knowledge-to guide thousands, who, but for him, would be wan dering about in all the uncertainty of ignorance, or be held in ne fetters of some selfish policy, which they had not, of themselves -the energy to throw off. "Tis not in folly-not to scorn a fool, And scarce in human wisdom-to do more. they can; which is a trial of skill, between two knaves, to see which shall overreach the other; but honest men set their price and adhere to it. 7. If you put a chain round the neck of a slave, the other end fastens it self around your own. Would you then learn to dissipate the band Of these huge threatening difficulties dire, Here to mankind indulged: control desire; 413. EARNESTNESS OF MANNER-is of Proverbs. 1. People generally love truth vital importance in sustaining a transparent more than goodness; knowledge more than holistyle; and this must be imbibed internally, ness. 2. Never magnanimity--fell to the ground. and felt with all the truth and certainty of 3. He, who would gather immortal palms, must nature. By proper exercises on these prin- not be hindered by the name of goodness, but ciples, a person may acquire the power of must explore--if it be goodness. 4. No author passing, at will, from grave to gay, and from was ever written down, by any but himself. ¿ Better be a nettle in the side of your friend, than lively to severe, without confounding one with the other: there are times, however, his echo. 6. Surmise is the gossumer, that malice when they may be united; as in the humor-destroys the choicest blossoms. 7. A genera ous and pathetic, together. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never, to himself hath said, "This is my own, my native land ?" blows on fair reputation; the corroding dew, that prostration of morals-must be the inevitable result of the diffusion of bad principles. 8. To know-is one thing; and to do-is another. 9 Candor-lends an open ear to all men. 10. Art -is never so beautiful, as when it reflects the philosophy of religion and of man. We cannot honor our country-with too deep a reverence; we cannot love her-with an affection too pure and fervent; we cannot serve her with an energy of purpose, or a faithfulness of zeal--too steadfast and ardent. And what is our country? It is not the East, with her hills and her valleys, with her countless sails, and the rocky ramparts 414. The following are the terms usually of her shores. It is not the North, with her applied to style, in writing, and also in speak-thousand villages, and her harvest-home, with ing; each of which has its distinctive charac- her frontiers of the lake, and the ocean. It is teristics; though all of them have something in common. Bombastic, dry, elegant, epistolary, flowing, harsh, laconic, lofty, loose, terse, tumid, verbose. There are also styles of occasion, time, place, &c.: such as the style of the bar, of the legislature, and of the pulpit; also the dramatic style, comedy, (high and low,) farce and tragedy. Illiterate and selfish people, are often opposed to persons traveling through the country, to lecture on any subject whatever; and especially, on such as the grumblers are ignorant of. But are not books and newspapers, itinerants too? In olden time, the worshipers of the goddess Diana, were violently opposed to the Apostles; because, thro' their preaching of the cross, their craft was in danger. The liberally educated, and those who are in favor of a universal spread of knowledge, are ready to bid them "God speed," if they and their subject are praiseworthy. Anecdote. A Kingly Dinner in Nature's Palace. Cyrus, king of Persia, was to dine with one of his friends; and, on being asked to name the place, and the viands with which he would have his table spread, he replied, "Prepare the banquet at the side of the river, and let one loaf of bread be the only dish." Bright, as the pillar, rose at Heaven's command: When Israel-marched along the desert land, Blazed through the night-on lonely wilds afar, And told the path,-a never-setting star; Go, heavenly Genius, in thy course divine, Hope-is thy star, her light—is ever thine. not the West, with her forest-sea, and her inland isles, with her luxuriant expanses, clothed in the verdant corn; with her beautiful Ohio, and her majestic Missouri. Nor is it yet the South, opulent in the mimic snow of the cotton, in the rich plantations of the rice-field. What are these, but the sister rustling cane, and in the golden robes of the families of one greater, better, holier family, OUR COUNTRY? VARIETIES, Give thy thoughts no tongue, I take it, as those that deny purgatory; 415. Beware of a slavish attention to rules; for nothing should supercede Nature, who knows more than Art; therefore, let her stand in the foreground, with art for her servant. Emotion-is the soul of oratory: one flash of passion on the cheek, one beam of feeling from the eye, one thrilling note of sensibility from the tongue, one stroke of hearty emphasis from the arm, have infinitely more value, than all the rhetorical rules and flourishes of ancient or modern times. The great rule is BE IN EARNEST. This is what Demosthenes more than intimated, in tire declaring, that the most important ting in eloquence, was action. There will be no execution without fire. Whoever thinks, must see, that man-was made For this-fair hope-leads on th' impassioned soul, Notes. The standard for propriety, and force, in public speaking is to speak just as one would naturally express himself in earnest conversation in private company. Such should we all do, if left to ourselves, and early pains were not taken to substitute an artificial method, for that which is natural. Beware of im agining that you must read in a different way, with different tones and cadences, from that of common speaking. Anecdote. The severity of the laws of Draco, is proverbial; he punished all sorts of crime, and even idleness, with death: hence, De-ma-des said- -"He writes his laws, not with ink-but with blood." On being asked why he did so, he replied, that the smallest crime deserved death, and that there was not a greater punishment he could find out, for greater crimes. Miscellaneous. 1. Envy-is the daughter of pride, the author of revenge and murler, the beginning of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue; it is the filthy slime of the soul, a venom, a poison, that consumeth the flesh, and drieth up the marrow of the bones. 2. What a pity it is, that there are so many quarter and half men and women, who can take delight in gossip, because they are not great enough for any thing else. Were I so tali-as to reach the pole, 4. What is the difference between loving the minds, and the persons of our friends? 5. How different is the affection, the thought, action, form and manners of the male, from the affection, thought, action, form and manners of the female. Then farewell,-I'd rather make When thawing suns-begin to shine, The stomadi-hati no ears. Laconics. 1. God has given us vocai organ: and reason to use them. 2. True gesture-is the language of nature, and makes its way to the heart, without the utterance of a single word. 3. Coarseness and vulgarity—are the effects of a bad education; they cannot be chargeable to nature 4. Close observation, and an extensive knowledge of human nature alone, will enable one to adapt himself to all sorts of character. 5. Painting— describes what the object is in itself: poetry—what it inspires or suggests: one-represents the visible, the other-both the visible and the invisible. 6. It is uncandid self-will, that condemns without a hearing. 7. The mind-wills to be free; and the signs of the times-proclaim the approach of its restoration. Woman. The right education of this sex is of the utmost importance to human life. There is nothing, that is more desirable for the common good of all the world; since, as they are mothers and mistresses of families, they have for some time the care of the education of their children of both sorts; they are intrusted with that, which is of the greatest consequence to human life. As the health and strength, or weakness of our bodies, is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young; so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to their first tempers and ways of thinking, which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. As we call our first language our mother-tongue, so—we may as justly call our first tempers our moth er-tempers; and perhaps may be found more easy to forget the language, than to part entirely with those tempers we learned in the nursery. It is, therefore, to be lamented, that the ser, on whom so much depends, who have the first forming both of our bodies and our minds, are not only educated in pride, but in the silliest and most contemptible part of it. Girls are indulged in great vanity; and mankind seem to consider them in no other view than as so many painted idols, who are to allure and gratify their passions. Varieties. 1. Was England—justified in her late warlike proceeding against China? 2. Fit language there is none, for the heart's deepest things. 3. The honor of a maid-is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. 4. O, how bitter a thing it isto look into happiness—thro' another's eyes. Ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts, And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mini That from it-all consideration slips. To persist In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong, But makes it much more heavy. He cannot be a perfect man, Not being tried or tutored in the world: Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected-by the swift course of time A confused report-passed thro' my ears, But, full of hurry, like a morning dream, It vanished-in the business of the day. smoothness. The DRAMATIC - Proverbs. 1. The more--womon kok into their glasses, the less-they attend to their houses 2. Works, and not words, are the proof of love. 3. There is no better looking-glass, thar. a true friend. 4. When we obey our superiors, we instruct our inferiors. 5. There is more trouble in having nothing to do, than in having much to do. 6. The Virtue, that parleys, is near the surrender. 8. The spirit of truth-dwelleth in meekness. 9. Resist a temptation, till you conquer it. 10. Plain dealing is a jewei best throw of the dice-is to throw the:n away. 7. A Wife; not an Artist. When a man Anecdote. Faithful unto Death. When the venerable Polycarp· -was tempted by Herod, the proconsul, to deny, and blaspheme the LORD JESUS CHRIST, he answered,— "Eighty and six years-have I served my 417. ROLLA'S ADDRESS TO THE PERU- LORD and SAVIOR,-and in all that timeVIANS. My brave associates-partners-of he never did me any injury, but always my toil, my feelings, and my fame! Can good; and therefore, I cannot, in conscience, Rolla's words-add vigor-to the virtuous reproach my KING and my REDEEMER.” energies, which inspire your hearts? No; you have judged as I have, the foulness of of sense comes to marry, it is a companion he the crafty plea, by which these bold invaders wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a would delude you. Your generous spirit creature who can paint, and play, and sing, has compared, as mine has, the motives, and dance. It is a being who can comfort which, in a war like this, can animate their and counsel him; one who can reason and minds and ours. They, by a strange frenzy reflect, and feel and judge, and discourse and driven, fight for power, for plunder, and ex-discriminate; one who can assist him in his tended rule; we, for our country, our altars, affairs, lighten his sorrows, purify his joys, and our homes. They follow an adventur- strengthen his principles and educate his childer, whom they fear, and obey a power, which ren. Such is the woman who is fit for a mothey hate; we serve a monarch whom we ther, and the mistress of a family. A woman love, a God, whom we adore. Whene'er of the former description may occasionally they move in anger, desolation-tracks their figure in a drawing-room, and excite the adprogress! Whene'er they pause in amity, miration of the company; but is entirely affliction-mourns their friendship. They unfit for a helpmate to man, and to train up boast, they come but to improve our state, a child in the way he should go. enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the Varieties. 1. He, who is cautious and yoke of error! Yes they will give enlight-prudent, is generally secure from many danened freedom to our minds, who are them-gers, to which many others are exposed. 2 selves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride. A fool may ask more questions in an hour They offer us their protection. Yes, such than a wise man may answer in seven years protection-as vultures-give to lambs- 3. The manner in which words are delivered covering, and devouring them. They call contribute mainly to the effects they are to on us to barter all of good, we have inherited produce, and the importance which is attachand proved, for the desperate chance of some-ed to them. 4. Shall this greatest of free nathing better, which they promise. Be our tions be the best? 5. One of the greatest plain answer this: The throne-we honor obstacles to knowledge and excellence, is inis the people's choice; the laus we rever-dolence. 6. One hour's sleep before midnight, ence-are our brave fathers' legacy; the faith is worth two afterward. 7. Science, or learn we follow-teaches us to live in bonds of cha-ing, is of little use, unless guided by good rity with all mankind, and die—with hope sense. of bliss-beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them too, we seek no change; and, least of all, such change as they would bring us. GAMBLING. Oh! vice accursed, that lur'st thy victim on Pleasure most visionary, if delight, how transient! Men-use a different speech-in different climes, The whole round world reveres-and is delighted. 418. The merging of the Diatonic Scale If we're too short, we must be stretch'd, Beware of all racks; be natural, or nothing. Laconics. 1. Any vication of law-is & breach of morality. 2. Music, in all its variety, is essentially one: and so is speech, tho' infinitely diversified. 3. Literary people—are often unpleas ant companions in mixed society; because they have not always the power of adapting them selves to others. 4. It is pedantry-to introduce foreign words into our language, when we have pure English words to express all that the exotica contain; with the advantage of being intelligible to every one. 5. Whatever is merely artificial, is unnatural; which is opposed to general eloquence. 6. There can be no great advances made, in genuine scientific truth, without well regulated affec tions. 7. We can be almost anything we choose; if we will a thing to be done, no matter how high the aim, success is nearly certain. Anger. Of all passions-there is not one so extravagant and outrageous as this; other passions solicit and mislead us: but thisruns away with us by force, hurries us as well to our own, as to another's ruin: it often falls upon the wrong person, and discharges its wrath on the innocent instead of the guil ty. It'spares neither friend nor foe; but tears all to pieces, and casts human nature into a perpetual warfare. VARIETIES. All the world's-a stage, And all the men and women-merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man, in his time, plays many parts, His acts-being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail, Unwilingly, to school. And then, the lover; Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow: Then, a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth: And then the justice; Pride. There is no passion so universal, In fair round belly, with good capon lined, or that steals into the heart more impercepWith eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, tibly, and covers itself under more disguises, than pride; and yet, there is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish in us all the secret seeds of pride and sink the conscious soul— to the lowest epths of humility. Anecdote. Sterling Integrity. In 1778, while congress was sitting in Philadelphia, frequent attempts were made, by the British officers, and agents, to bribe several of the members. Governor Johnstone-authorized the following proposal, to be made to Col. Joseph Reed: "That if he would engage his interest to promote the objects of the British, he should receive THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, and any office in the colonies, in his majesty's gift. Col. Reed-indignantly replied, "I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me." Full of wise saus and modern instances, Softens the high, and rears the abject mind; |