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..-....., I, a inn nil . mi v- ' ' ; - "- -.t v,'1 1 .Vv, v- ;- r.- "5 - .-... -- . f T '.- -, . i- - ; , .' . - ' - v ' f " 1 - v.v -'vX ' ' ' - ' ' " -"'J - "i -' . .r.t rrTTviT, It - . ' - - . w . '4-" ' H - : T '- c f , , ' . j j. - - "jll- 4 s- t if" f on Pride. - tf PriJ was nzt mniz for Jllin THIS excellent preCfpt froo holy writ, nvjghr alone h.iv taught min jmility. I3a To pr i . r.re tre grown to a nbiiijn. T c. to value ourfekes upon cur vo;ia y , acquifiticpSj that even t'r; wcrr.ia tr omnipotence are not (Vri.:i: :n contrdul bur nriJe. Mn i i .1 It ,1 i of: natUTC, vas left, after tKj l'.iJi of L oiir firit parents, to hunt l.i: d.ii!v fubfiltince in the diUnut iortits f: ' , Water, "and not go!!, qucnclied his ..thhrftand the ilrickcn deer" fr- ! nldisd his focial board. Then, w.:s 4, . ,b!oorning' health and vigour the pre.-- . v-i v ; -5taXn'itir d hi$ bVdf ri 6 ie'ni- M ,ju4i . sppcciics picycu upau ill . ' "mind. I cannot fo well el'ucidatc" this febject, as by prcfenting a few a necdorsof the pride of man in the iron sge ih,which we live. Philip the third, King of Spain being gravely (catedy as Spaniards generally are, by a chimney where . the fire-maker of the court had kindled fo great a quantity of wood that the monarch was nearly fuffocated with heat, his gran ' dcur would not fuffer him to rife - from the chair ; and the domestics could riot pretime to enter the apart . xaent, becaufe it was again-:t the Etiqaette At length, I the Marquis - Uc Totat appeared, and the King f . ordered Jiim to damp the fire : but ' rexcufe'dhimfelf; alledging, that he wa3 forbidden by Etiquette to per form fach a function, for which the ! 1 Duke D'TJffeda ought to be called, - as it was his bufinefs. The Duke was ' gone out; thcfr burnt firrcer ; and . the King endured it, rather thnn ( derogate from his dignity. Bat his blood was heated to fuch , a degree thataneryfipelasbroke'out in hishead the next day ; which, bein fucceed 1 ' c& by'a riMent fever, carried him eff in at the age of twenty four. - ' The palace was once on fire; when a fbldier, who knew the King's fiftcr . mufl inevitably have been Confumed in a few moments by the flames, at theriDcofhis life, ruflied in, arid brought her highne fs fafc out in hi arms. But the Spanilh Etiquette was - . here woefully broken into! The loyal foldier was brought to tria!; aTid, as : it was impoQibletodeny that he ha! entered her apartment, he was condemned to die ! . Swift, in bis celebrated burlcfque novel, had his Hero : Gulliver im peached far high treafort ; and one of' tnc articles of the impeachment is, for cxtinguifhing the fire "which threatened the diltruclion cf the Kinrof-liUlipttts Palace, -by a dif. chargof hist own urine. If the Author,1 Had the latter anecdote in tiew when he mote that work, it Nwas jelling with a melancholy inr l .'-v Tyranny. From 'fuch inlUnces, it would appear, that this difgraccfu paflxonj is biif little Checked in crowned heads finet' ihe days 01 Bajatt tmpcro'r :of tCe Turks; T vho,vbpund in chains; fay to Ta ' znerline his Conqueror; . ' 'OlrLhati I bectf 'raaftcr bat ol j jc.iciuay, j " -- The world the world had felt me and for tlee, ; I would have uied thee ai thou art tr m r a Dog, ' - The object of my fcornj and mor . tat hatred '; I would have taught thy neck to know" my weight, And mounted from that foot-flooi tf K'iy fa d d 1 C :: Then, wlA;n thy daily fervile task w,.s dpnei - I would havo caged thee,. for tht 1 fcor of flrtvcs, ", ; Til! jou iiadlt bea'd to die, an.J cv'a rhnt mcfcyT lud deny'o thee." " florrid reflclion t!ia man (hou! render up, to mortal pfi'de, thac life, which belongs to God alne ! j ntuations in life1, and we ; find; but few diverted of pride. In molt in uaiices, envy, its near relation, is the companion of pride. In poll ticks, in trade, in mechanicks what envy- what pride may be found. " If there be anv thing: which J 17 makes human nature appear .redicu lous, to beings of fuperior faculties, it mull be pride. Tnsv know fo well the vanity of thole imaginarv perfections that fwell the hearf ot man, and j of thofc fittle fupernumerary advantages, whethtt in birtli, fortune, or title, wliich one man enjoysjabove another that it must certainly very much astonifh, if it dees not very mu;h divcTrihm, when they fee aj mortal puffed up, and valuing himfelf abovevhis neigh hours on any of thefe accounts' at the fame, time thit he is obnoxious to all the common calamities of the fpeeies' I Nor are the female fcx free from this imputation of pride ; & though it may in the prefent day be chiefly confined to drefs and the change of fafhion ; yet, have we in them, ma ny instances of a tinclure of am bition, envy, and even cruelty. In. the characters of Mary and Elizabeth, Queens of England, are to be found a combination of theft excefles. In the lattr, the execu tion cf tlie Queen of the Scots, anr the Earljqf ElTcx are indelible stain? while! the- bloody havoc of tht. former In favour of Popery whi forever pe regarded with horror. That pride is attendant oil high rank, hiliory hath numberlefs in (tances. j I fhail, however, here futTer orse of recent date to fufHfe. The lyriicef5 Amelia, Aunt to the prefent King of England, being en gaged in a party at Whiif, an officer of rmk, who flood behind her chair feeing hfr. fnutT-box on tjie table, imprudently took a pinch. The Princefsi enraged at the libejty ta ken by ji fubjet, imperiou cal led onciof her attendants, and or dered hLri to throw the remaindei of ths .fnkff into the fire. The of icer, iin the utmott coufufion was rlad to leave the room. It is a rapid ftride from Courts to te gallows ; yet, as the inter mediate flate is nothing but a repe tition of the fin of pride, I flialh conclude this number with n in ftanceof it in the moments of difgraceful parage from this world to eternity. : ftnT fiiijhway'jnart and a Chimney Sweeper-weri-goniir to ' he hanged it t 1. . r i ' . le public pJace jof execution in ;aud- H7.ben they came to the. 1 Highwayman pufhed Soorrk.i!i pit of th way, and bid rn1 7i f e l ne don on .Joqt will h Lpiri t rertlied D n me "ir if Lna, I have :o ? her: as you. las rood a 'ri&ht i nan Gbfgrver- Ati'an rccu-e of Sti.'fcnts at an r.iJj UA ivsrj.ty . c 01 Pxtord Collerr. Tl i" ... perufe a Buk ; HA lii jr. of alio.- ' - 1' i :r Arr .if jk, : nt 1 'nl vio -;o(-cs uie d; te'iurne j tliisa jfwc An ij rs an d i ti or m -1 J . AJaL. of it He my cQ:rpii the gentleman- ciiti Imt it rue wiiic come to my Chamber Iii maw read if t'iire lOSllf as he likc'iV The f a civil . A fii udeiK no thinking this ver did njot o. lime afterwarids the book bolder, having occvfi n to lifebt ure iu a hurrv Cl nt Ins comnlimtnts to the fir't m enticed Student, and bec'd he would lend him a pair of ochqws, when he returned tor an fwcr. ' Tell the gentleman I never lend. "my bellows cuif but if he will cams to my chamber he mayufe them at my fire as long as he. likes. The following iniriiitable portrait of that : great and good MANT, wnpfe jofs our ciuntry flill ds- ' '..pji-rssi; h :-dr. wrid jyj la-c'el'eferatcd-European, who knew our fainted countryman by his fablime virtnes and glorious deed! Coft. cent. .. - From the BRiVisti Mercury, ' , By Mallet du Pan. IN the fame moni h ( December r 799) and nearly of; the fame age, died three men very unlike in ti ients, character, public qualities and reputation ; but who in their iiflimilar career, have excited the admiration, or engaged the attentiori of Europe. Two of them were victims of the French revolution, and the third would all have fal Jen. x Ocririce to it, had not his profound wifdom, the energyj of the rational pnrt of his countrymen, and local vjaufes. fupported him again ft the jatriues, libels and machinations of the republic of France. r . . '. Thefe words 'wy 1 immedTately- prefent to the reader's mind -the na me of General W4SHIMG TON. On the 15th of Deteiber the ;U- nited States of America loii this .1 great and virtuous citizen, who died in the. 68th ycr of his, age, at his houfe in Virginia, in cpnfequence of a fudden diforder. which carried him off in 24 hours. ' .- ' - What rank will hihVory afiign to this character am3n the .cotem porarics whofe name are borne the greateft.luttre t Tt may be made a quettion whether W'afhington,-as a. General arjdftatefman, equalled in genius PrinccEugene, Frederick II or Chatham ? But how is it polfible with propriety to compare men who are placed in utuations no wife ana- lagous ? Wafhington, Dc Steigner and iviannontei. r1 . . ' " ' .j . I ' " i ." Werewc Allowed, tp; venture ' aq opinion -qn- ths fubjed?, wje pb '";', ferve that if , Wamington was l infe- ' ribr to-foxne other, illuftrlorisr inert 'V in extent md bcldnefs Cf minid.Vhc lurpaiied'Sthem by the union of qOa iities and tafents the m6ftrarely found together, and by; a enrrattcf armoli fauitlefs. ' A " . ? ' " Contlitution, foul, and jntel lefi, werein him in conltantj iar- " tjoy, and perfectly adopted to his . Mblic career. . It might be faid that :,rcyidence: had created him for the part lie has if attained, for tke peo&te' he governed, and for the cifeum- ances in wlitcSi his countryiood. t AtK-r.s ih lot! wouid hive beca -e public well coqstuuteu una ioncr .etabli0ied,!'4isvf 'ri'ijts-wrl nave been called farth"; in a sorrcpt republic he! wou d .hve 'chftfcn.it private station as the post "of ho nour. ' . ':! . , I- ! 4t It his military and political" h,r wifdom. was the pro-oinent . ; .feature pf his character. It is given to few men to poiTefs that admirable tem perature whieli marked all the acti ons of Wamington. His, courage and his talene for war would -have been infufficieniV and perhaps hurt- -ful. Without the patiencej coolnefs and equality of fpirits which he iif played in bad as well as good for tune. , v " : ' At the head of the repub lic, he preervedthe fame up--rightneis and the lavae (pi rikoii condud by which he had been":-' guided in battle.; He wasjin iebted to the excellence of his -judgment, as well asto the af cendency of his public and pri vate virtues, for t he permanence of -the rcputatipnj he enjoyed. His1 fpeechess, letters, actions, were always marked with the fame rea fort and that ftrbng gpQd fenfe which is the highclt gift of nature to a public man, and his highelt merit: trmc good fen fe which;1 alone rcfifrs the agitations of the foul, and corrects the wanderings of the underftanding. ; ; f The habitual moderation of ' Warn in ton his fTrriinefs which was. ever calm and well timed his prudence Hvhich , neither difficulty nor .pafFion, neither hope nor fear could ihake his fuperiority-to all artifice and ih trigue, and his aitlefs politics, dictated by ajuft eft'imatioh of ' times, men and things,-have never degenerated for a mo- ment; Placed ar the head of an infant republic,! he acquired all the d gimy ufually ieeftowed an high offices by the; force, Of cuftom and of agej anci he pre-: ferved it as if be had ruled A-. mcrica Tor a century : bis admi nillration was bei reti fupported by refpecl: and confidence than by laws or arrrjics. j I ft He has not been : chargcil with a vice or a wcaknefs. .-. No one has ai(ed a doubrof, bU integrity or his difintetefted- 1 - - . - II-' y , ' r j , .j r 1 jjrr-i v i I 1 '-'I '431 .it
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