peteal. ~· Their amusements, their stoicism, and unaccommodating as daily avocations were aimed at this the rudeness of their: manners. point, but the OLYMPIC GAMES Were Governed by courage: they were to ageneral theatre on which was re- be incited by examples of fearless presented whatever could add to valor, and of necessity employing their zeal or give warmth to their stratagem, they were to be allured feelings. Nurtured in glory, they by examples of successful artifice. learnt here to despise the calcula- These are among the instances tions of avarice, they were, taught which show the effect of national here to value the victors chaplet institutions and the operation of above the monarch's crown, to pre-natural passions: when directed by fer the laurel to gold. 1 The disin-judicious regulations. The underkrested sentiments which were in standing is only one among many culcated, the patriotism displayed, springs which give impulse and ener the action's recounted; and the re-gy tomata Passions exist which must wards bestowed, left impressions on be regulated or they will overpower the mind which memory and an- with resistless violence, and of these ticipation equally served to confirm. some are not to be deterred by juIt was the wonder of a monarch, dicial punishinent or the terrors of who led an invading army against law, they must be directed into Greece, that considerations so tri-channels which will give room for fing could engage the attention of expansion, or diverted on objects her citizens, but he found they where their greatest fury may be were preparatives to nobler exer- harmlessly spent... tions: that here they learnt what- Some future opportunity may be ever could give confidence to cour-taken for a farther examination of age and discipline to valor, and that our subjecti ... w cutrolini (.it the excellence of a government, we stroku 3 nedbediant ei da pe which assimilated its institutions Saw For the Emerald or the character of its citizens was so happily displayed, that it created cathusiasm for its support, and a readiness to meet death sooner than suffer its subversion The PRIDE which was common to all the Grecians, on account of their religion and their games, was cherished in every separate State by similar lo- FROM the libertine and the rake cal institutions. The Spartans proceeds that insolent contempt were taught by the laws of Lycur-with which, in public assemblies and gus proudly to despise, the effemi-public prints the females of the prenacy and pleasure in which they sent day are insulted. From the saw surrounding nations immerged. errors of perverted minds. these inNothing which passed by the name corrigible profligates give licence of elegance or politeness, no skill to their tongues, and presume to in arts, no proficiency in other sci- speak and write in most disrespectences than war bad the least charmful terms of a sex for whose protécfor their inflexible minds. With a tion and support the God of nature haughty consciousness of superior intended Man. From them progreatness they practised on princi- ceeds that style of remark, "which ples congenial with the apathy of so often wounds the ear of feeling 4 We insert with pleasure, the followin remarks on á habit, by much too pre valent. General satire is at all times ungenerous, and there can never he any less true than that which is directed against one half of creation.]. ON THE FREQUENT SATIRE UPON DID A . D?WOMEN innocence, or raises the well-deserv- A youth intimate with the dregs ed smile of contemptuous disregard. of humanity, just coming from WOMAN is the tender flower of scenes of immorality and vice, ensociety whose very weakness is the ters an assembly of virtuous females, best claim to protection. Prevent- surveys them with that licentious ed however from a defence of her eye which the depravity of his heart sex by an inestimable and indispen-enkindles, and, forming his judgsible delicacy, by a restraint which ment of them from his own charcustom and general opinion im-acter, decides that like himself they poses, and which propriety would would sacrifice honor to the gross dead her to observe in its fullest pleasures of sense. extent,she is subjected to the detraction of confident calumniators, rioting in the unrestrained licentious-the wanton gaze of its intemperate ness of their thoughts, and turning into ridicule and scorn the weakness which cannot resist insult. A general satire on the sex proves nothing but individual cowardice. It shows that the writer is malicious enough to do mischief but wants the spirit to make an attack where there is a chance of resistance. It is not the protection of her person in moments of corporal danger that comprehends the extent of that tenderness which is due to the sex; it is not the Don Quixotte sallies of heated imagination which proves the regard they are so often acknowledged to deserve, or pays the debt which nature has imposed on man. We well know that the breath of slander shakes a woman's reputation, on which is her whole dependance for esteem and her sole claim for respect; yet with unequalled illiberality the whole sex is publickly and undeservedly censured by those, who, to say the best of them, are mere votaries of vice. Often when ladies are present, by particular invitation, to grace an assembly with their presence, the literary exercises of the day are fraught with double entendres and ill contrived attempts at wit, the subject of which is the female part of the community. This is adding insult to injury and is more unmanly because it must be borne unresisted. Should MODESTY, by that awe which it can always inspire, check observer, and by virtue's brightest ray for a moment enlighten the dark shades of corruption, the eye is closed to its power, its purity is denied, it is charged as the effect of HYPOCRISY. Thus virtue and vice are equally implicated and women are divided into two classes, the immoral and the deceitful. Do these manly and spirited gentlemen recollect while they indiscriminately implicate the sex, that their mothers are women, that their sisters are women, and that their wives, which are or will be, are women? and is there on these accounts no gratitude, no respect, no affection, or are these old fashioned emotions? Can these fine sensations, by nature implanted in our breasts, be so choaked by dissipation as neither to be felt nor understood? With what face would our modern Zoilus, the contemptuous railer of God's choicest work, go to a wo man of sentiment and feeling, one whom a man of sense would wish should be the wife of his bosom and the mother of his children, the companion of his life, and the protectress of his interest and honor, ask her forever to depend on his esteem, and his affection for her happiness and peace, lead her to the altar and before God and man promise her continued love and affection? The guardian angel of worth would nev with respect to such drugs because of their unknown composition; and the irresponsibility of the inventors. And besides, among the faculty the utility of the medicines used, has been tested by the learning and experience of ages; but quack medicines are the insects of a season, which exist whilst they are encouraged by public sunshine: but when the clouds of neglect arise they vanish, though you feel their sting. Several recent instances of lives lost, health impaired or constitutions nearly destroyed by the frequent and indiscriminate use of certain medicines, sold by male and female quacks, render it requisite to stop the progress of the poison before it be too late. against this monster of empiricist with his hundred heads, and h will then be confined to his den. PRUDENTIUS For the Emerald. DESULTORY SELECTIONS And Original Remarks. DESCRIPTION OF A WIFE. WELL-God's will be done.-I must bear it with Christian patience; Mors omnibus communis handkerchief, in conformity with custom on such occasions, and applied it to his eyes where if there had been a tear no doubt the aforesaid handkerchief would have done its duty and disposed of it. To be sure (said he) she had her failings as who has not, but custom famil Here the husband took out his Venders of medicines, who must be conscious of their power of destruction, should be made responsible for every injury which should arise unless they give special notice to every purchaser, of the particular diseases which can be re-iarized me to them. She certainly lieved by them. Whilst the fool- made some trips in point of fidelity ishness and credulity of the world to my bed, but then she was over is so considerable, there arises an partial to the brandy bottle and that additional inducement for every accounts for her incontinence you man and woman of sense to oppose know very naturally. She was a the circulation of these drugs of little over righteous it must be death. It is equally a subject of owned, and saddled me with the surprise and regret, that the efforts saints rather more than was agreeof writers against the prevalence of able, but then her religion was empiricism, should have proved so mere hypocrisy, so that I could unavailing. They may have been not quarrel with her on that acimproperly directed; addressing count; she was something of a the vulgar with argument is not termagant, I cannot deny-told a the means of gaining their confi- pretty many untruths and bred a dence; it is personal example alone pretty many disturbances in my by which they are influenced, family, but then she did the same call therefore on the wise, the rich by all her neighbors as by me, so and the influential, to rescue so-that I had no cause în particular to ciety by their power and conduct complain of her, and, upon the from the inroads of quackery and whole, have as much reason to laadditional disease; let them uni- ment the loss of my wife, as generformly oppose their opinions and ally falls to any one man's share. strenuously exert their abilities SH Cumberland. The reader of novels will find no novelty but may trace the pencil of genius in the following glowing The following remarks from the lively pen of the same ingenious author whom we have just quoted, might with propriety be inserted in other publica-portrait. tions besides that for which it was originally intended. Oh, all ye loves and graces, why thus league yourselves in mighty combination against one weak son I HOPE the candid reader now of nature unhappily too sensitive and then calls to mind how much for his own repose. Why meet easier he travels over these pages him, lovely Isabella, with that ma than the writer of them did. When gic sweetness, those alluring smiles, our dulness is complained of, it and to a form so beautiful add those would be but charity in him to re-charms which would have rec flect how much pains that same ommended homeliness itself, the dulness has cost us; more he may nymph-like robe tucked up above be assured than our brighter inter- the instep-locks loose and flowing vals, where we sprung nimbly for-quick step and panting bosom? ward with an easy weight, instead Why must every wind conspire to of toiling like a carrier's horse, unveil new beauties to our Henry's whose slow and heavy pace argues sight? And why too must that cunthe load he draws and the labor he ning painter exercise-heighten endures. Alas, for us poor writers, the bright carnation of your cheeks if there was no mercy for dull au- to such a dazzling hue that the adthors, and our countrymen like the miring eye could not behold its lusbarbarous Libethrians of old should tre without betraying the emotions take it into their heads to banish of the heart?Is this fair dealing music and the muses from the land tempter? Goddesses, ye should and murder every Orpheus who have mercy and remember Henry did not fiddle to their taste. It is is but a mortal Cumberland. a cruel thing to rack our brains for nothing, run our jaded fancies to a standstill and then lie down at the conclusion of the race a car case for the critics. And what is our crime all the while? A mere mistake between our readers and ourselves, occasioned by a small miscalculation of our capacities, and their candor, all which would be avoided if happily for us they had not the wit to find out our blunders or happily for them, had all An active despair has often tris that good nature towards us that umphed over the indolent assura we generally exercise towards our-ance of success. selves. If once they could bring HENRY 4th.. This admirable prince by whose good policy the misfortunes of France were retrieved,, thus addressed his soldiers at the battle of Ivri. My children if you lose sight of the colours rally to my white plume you will always find it in the road to honour and glory. 13 their tempers to this charming Such was the unhappy condition " |