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frvm ibr New York evening Post. TUB FKUALE SLANDKKK.IL There is a spell on beauty's power, A cloud abo\e her noon -day hour? On her white virgin robe a stain, OVr native grace a fettering chain; S>mt wizzard art, like that which led In Kasti-rn love the Arabian maid. In one fair form thy potent spells I'rite what charms and what repels; And like the magnet's adverse poles. Attracts yet frights the gazers' souls, ?ler eve wiih beams of love is bright, But pestilence is in its light; Her ~he? k with softest crimson glows. But there's a ctnkcr in tlie rose; There's venom in that ruby lip, M h< re Love his arrowy store should dip; And accents form'd must strangely there Taint and infect the ambient air; It is as if on seraph's tongue A demon's w ithering curses hung! The enchanted fruit a dragon keeps, Heneath the flowers a serpent sleeps; Soon as we hear the trifling hiss, From that luxuriant bower of bliss. That fair redundancy of charms, Shuddering at once in wild alarms. The Loves their purple pinions ply, And from the scene affrighted fly. 'Tis malice rankling 111 the heart, Tin vip?-mu? alandi r*s baneful art, ^ That bligl ts the bloom to beauty givjA, And mars the workmanship of heaven^ UK1AH DK.K1CK D'AH^Y. From Puulioii'i Daily Advertiser. LUXURY. Oh 1 uxnry.' tlioit curst l?y Heaven's derrrc, llow do tliy potions, with insidious joy, DiHusc their pleasures only to destroy. The annals of (Ircrrr and Koine, impart more pleasure to the rea tier, than those of the other powerful na tions of antiquity. The admirable form of their republican institutions have, in ull ages, excited the atten tion of the discerning part of mankind. The inquiries and researches of the learned, have more paiticularly di rected them than any other, with the exception of the people of India, the rliosen of Heaven. ith what delight we read the Rplcmlid storj of these illustrious re publics, in the days of our youth? \Vliat sclioi 1 hoy has not been fired with the bright example of their pat riots, when perusing the volume that records their glorious a' lnevemeiit'*? How often, inspired by the bright example, h:is he burned with a desire to emulate their deeds of greatness; the contemplation of these republics, Hiipported by the most devoted pa triot*;, cherishing in his breast the h acred Maine of Liberty. The heaiitiful morality of their page* ? their ennobling philosophy ill-p i ' s the niit.fl with sentiment* of virtue, a dt testation ul' ticc, mid a love or order and justice What el evated tli.Mio nations to such power and grvatness, a:?d adorned them with those celebrated men, whom we regard with su< h admiration; those warriors whose exploits adorn the historic page ? and those sages who. without the light of revelatiou. teac h in the,r writings, a system of mor ality so p?rc antj beautiful? By v? hat means did they arrive to suc h splen dour, and what was the unfortunate cause of their downfal?? They rose J?y a strict adherence to the virtue ol tempe rance; it was the practice of this virtue that nerved their arm on the held of battle, and inspired them with courage in the hour of peril. It was this that produced among them sue h intrepid soldiers, w ho carried .,c,r conquests to the remotest re gions of the earth. But when by the conquests of most powerful na tions, they accumulated riches, they relaxed the rigour of their republican manners, they became enervated, and abandoned themselves to luxury and intemperance. The liardy spirit of independence forsook them? their' republican principles Were over thrown; and the nations who heard a Demosthenes and Ciccro pour forth the thunder of their eloquence against > canny, and inspire their country men with the enthusiasm ofiibcrti they who had beheld a Leon id as pe rish m defending it, sunk the willin~ slaves of a tyrant, who erected the throne on the ruins of the temple of liberty. To view its baneful effects, we need only cast our eyes on our own c oun try. and contemplate the misery and desolation it has produced. The de sire of accumulating wealth, has i? u, thousands to launch forth be yond their means, and enter info their wildest speculations ? the wish to be cm,, suddenly rich, made them look ?ith contempt upon laborious exer tton. Instead of pursuing the meth od of their honest, and industrious forefathers, of proceeding with cau tion, industry, and prudence they have indulged in visionary dreams, and entered un the wildest schemes. I hey fancied the western wilds, a mine of ex haustless riches. Experi ence has shown it in a differe nt light; the mists of error have been dissipat ed by the beams of truth? the gulden dreams have vanished. The conse quence has been a wonderful encrease or luxury and extravagance. We have seen the farmer neglecting the plough lo enter ?nt.? his practice, and the mechanic his business.? From this neglect of la bour. idleness ensued; and the great er number gave themselves up to dissipation. <>f all the \ i( cs that follow in the train of luxiirv . there is not one. that has he canto so alarming as that of intemperance. It is spreading over the land, like the sirocco of the de s? rt. blasting all that came within its fatal \ ortex. It we look around, how ?uanj are there who meet our view w ho were once the pride of their friends, ami the In pe of their fami lies, to whom the road of fame was open: hle^ed with talents that would have raised them to the first stations in the lepiihlic; who might, hut for this cursed vice, have directed her armies, or shone; in her councils. Now , alas! enervated, debilitated, the en< rgies ot their mind destroyed, fh<ii Ambition extinguished, their character fallen into contempt, and all their once glowing Impes sacri ficed at the shrine of Bacchus. When a man sinks a victim to this lirulal virr, it is almost impossible to reclaim him, as all sense of decency and virtue is eradicated from his mind; he is lost to the voire of hon our, and the goadiugs of shame. In vain his friends overwhelm him with reproaches ? he hears them not. The lu^s of his character, the contempla tion of his blighted hopes, the con tempt he i ii? urs ? ail these motives ar?' unable to induce him to break the. chain of habit by which he is bound, and draw him from the gulf of ruin. In vain his children cry to him for bread; the v retch, regardless of their sufferings. Hies to the destroying be verage. and drowns their cries amid the shouts of bacchanalian revelry. The times have < hanged; the cry of misery is heard from every side ? the best establishments in the com mercial world have been shaken to their foundations ? economy must be practised; let us return to the ways of our ancestors, and ?eck to rise by industry alone. ? It will by perseve rance give us competence; at any rate we will be possessed of an ines timable jewel ? YV.KV.Y. OF MIND. Let me again mention the vicc of intemperaiif e; it behoves us to ban ish it from amongst us. Let us bear :ii mind, that in the intoxicating i i j\nI. virtue* t' ?? {-???*'? I of the soul is { melted away ; in it the t<*Ji;i?s ol ho* 1 nor are sunk. Let us reflect on the dreadful judgment pronounced by Ho ly Writ, on him who becomes its vic tim, and seriously ponder on the dreadful effects of a vice, that ruins our happiness here, and destroys the blessed hope of it hereafter. Mabccs. BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. It was a pleasant evening in the month of May, and my sweet child, my Rosalie and I, had sauntered up to the castle's top, to enjoy the breeze that played around it, and to admire the unclouded firmament that glowed and sparkled with unusual lustre, from pole to pole. The at mosphere was in its purest and finest state for vision; the milky way was distinctly developed throughout its whole extent; every planet and star above the horison, however near and brilliant or distant and faint, lent its lambent light, or twinkling ray, to give variety and beauty to the he misphere, while the round bright moon (so distinctly defined were the lines of her figure, and so clearly vi sible even the rotundity of her form) seemed to hang off from the azure vault, suspended in midway air, or stooping forward from the firmament her fair and rad'ant face, as if to court and return our gaze. Wo amused ourselves for some time in observing, through a tele scope, the planet Jupiter sailing in silent majesty, with his squadron of satellites, along the vast ocean or space between us and the fixed stars, and admiring the felicity of that de sign by which those distant bodies had been parcelled out and arranged into constellations; so as to have served not only for the ancient navi gator, but as it were for laud -marks to astronomers at this day, enabling thein, although in different countries, to indicate to each other with ease, the place and motion of planets, co mets, and magnificent meteors which inhabit, revolve, and play in the in termediate space. We recollected and dwelt with de light upon the rise and progress of astronomy, 011 that series of astonish ing discoveries, through successive ages, which display, in so strong a light, the force and reach of the hu man mind, and on those bold conjec tures and sublime reveries which seem to tower even to the confines of divinity, and denote the high destiny fur instance, which i* sai (i to h ave | hern first started by IS thagoras, and which modern astrnnoiners ap prove; that the stars which we rail fixed, although they appear to us to he nothing more than large spangles of various sizes, glittering on the same concave surface, are. neverthe- j U'ss, bodies as large as our sun, shi ning like him with original and not rrllerted light, placed at incalcula ble distances asunder, and each star the solar centre of a system of pla nets, which revolve around it, as the planets belonging to our system do around our sun; that this is not only the case with all the stars in the fir mament w h?ch our eyes discern, or telescopes have brought within the sphere of our vision, but according to the modern improvement of this thought, that there are probably other stars, whose light has not >< t reached us. although light moves with a velocity ten million times greater than that of a cannon hall; that those luminous appearances which we observe in the firmament, like flakes of thin white i loud. are windows', as it were, which open to other firmaments, far, far beyond the ken of human eye, or the power of optical instruments, lighted up, like ours, with hosts of stars or sun*; that (his st heme goes on through in finite space, which is filled with thousands upon thousands of those suns, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand of those worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calin, regular and harmonious, in* ariahly keeping the paths prescribed tolhem; and these worlds peopled with ?? my riads of in telligent beings." One would think, that this conception, thus extended, would be hold enough to satisfy the whole enterprise of the human ima gination. Hut what an accession of magnificence and glory does Dr. He rschell superadd to it when in stead of supposing all those suns fix ed, and the motion confined to their respective planets, lie 1'iosens those multitudinous suns, themselves, from their stations, sets them all into mo tion, with their splendid retinue of planets and satelites, and imagines them, thus attended, to perform a splendid revolution, system above system, around some grander, un known centre, somewhere in the boundless aby*s of space! And when, ( carry ing on the proccu8,you supygj* even that centre itself not stationa ry, but also counterpoised by other masses in the immensity of space, with which, attended by their accu mulated trains of *' Planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken, through the void im mense." it maintains harmonious concert, sur rounding in their vast carreer, sotn? other centre, still more remote and more stupendous; which, in its turn ? " You overwhelm me," cried Ro salie, as I was labouring to pursue the immense concatenation; " my inind is bewildered and lost in the effort to follow you. and find no point on which to rest its weary wing." Yet there is a point, ray dear Rosa lie ? the throne of the Most High ? imagine fhat, the ultimate centre, to which this vast and inconceivably magnificent apparatus is attached. O! what a spectacle for the cheru bim and seraphim, and the spirits of the just made perfect, who dwell on the right hand of that throne, if, as may lie and probably is the case, their eyes arc permitted to pierce through the whole, and take in all its order, beauty, sublimity, and glo ry, at one glance, and their ears to distinguish that cclestial harmony, unheard of by us, with which those vast globes, as they roll in their re spective orbits, continually hyuin their great Creator's praise." Wirt's Old Bachelor, vol. ti. p. 46 ? 50. From the Philadelphia fnion. The Fount* Attorney's Assistant; Or , the U'uy to become an Eminent Councetlor. An old veteran in the ways of courts would propound to the rising generation of attornies, a few plain rules of practice, which, being drawn from his own successful exjierience, he is sure will be found conducive to their ?* best interests." 1. In the first place, procure a ca pacious green bag, with very long strings. StufT it with such old letters and obsolete documents as you can find about the house; and, if these do not fill it sufficiently, thrust in a law book or two. Take a conspicuous station in court; hang your bag upon the back of your chair; and whenever a good occasion offers, rise ? thrust the two fore fingers of each hand in to the mouth ? ofier^ y<njr i)rrci?ii.s its cargo; drawing out bundle after bundle, and slapping it upon the ta ble with emphasis, ?* frowning the while;" and occasionally fixing a look of deep perplexity upon some of the parquets. as if from the multipli city ol business, they had escaped your memory. Having thus aston ished the natives with a display of your briefs, vouchers ami documents, begin to return them with great pre cipitation; dose the inouth with a convulsive twicli of the strings; re place >our bag, anil resume your seat. There are some practitioners of considerable eminence, who never make a p. trade of their bags, and who think them an incumbrance at the best; but these are ninyhatiiincrs and not worth minding. II. The bag is to be your constant companion, cundo ct rede undo m to anil fi-oin court: but, on all other occa sions of walking in the streets, be sure to have your hand full of pa pers; wearing a look of solicitude and business; stepping as quick as dignity will permit, and inclining forward in an angle of about seventy degrees, A f?*w jury li-ts, spread in the manner of a peacock's tail, and waved to and fro as you walk, will, in the ? ourse of a few years, give you a general character of industry , make people think you are very hu sband send \ou cases in abundance. III. Absent yourself from court as much as possible* and seldom go in to the lower courts at all. This di rection is pregnant with beneficial consequences. In the first place, the scarcity of a thing always makes it valuable. Secondly, you will be thought so busy, that you could not attend, except when your presence should he absolutely necessary. Then you will have to be sent for; business will, in the mean time, he suspended; all will he waiting for your arrival; and you will enter the room, as the important personage, without whom the work cannot proceed In the last place, if you do passing well, you will be considered as a wonder; see ing that you were taken unawares, and had no time for preparation. IV. When you enter the court, let it he known to the four quarters of the room ? that you are come. And the most obvious way of effecting this purpose, is, to commence a dia logue with the first person whom you encounter, in so loud a voice as to ii; ^ tcrrupt business, and to attract the united attention of judge, jury* Ia?> , yen, witnesses and spectator*. V. M'lien lawyers have a good deal of business, they find it necessary to take a copy of all trial-lists: there fore, never fail to possess this infal lible mark of exteusivo practice. Have your copy upon a large sheet of paper; and, when the list is called off, stand up in the face of all pre sent; annotate upon the different cau ses, whether you arc engaged in tliern or not; and, if attention to you begins to lag, revivify it by a rattle of your list. VI. AVhen you are to take down notes of testimony, assume a station as distant as possible from the wit ness. In this manner, you will not be able to hear a word he says; and may constantly enjoin him to repeat it; which will effectually embarrass him; retard the progress of the cause; make a noise in your behalf, and keep you perpetually in the notice of the pub lic. VII. But the perfection of all legal practice, is a fine speech; and a fine speech, whatever the inexperienced may say, is no very difficult matter. Ease and impudence are the greal secret. Never suffer yourself to be embarrassed, but speak on, at all hazards; and the least you say to the point, the longer will be your speech, and the longer your fees. No matter by what course of circu itous association till you arrive at the conclusion. If any thing sug gests itself, out with it; and the ad vice given by an authority, N'iguel Cervantes, may furnish you w ith an admirable rule uf spcechification. ?? If you have occasion," says he, ** to mention a Giant in your piece, be sure to bring in Goliah, and on this very Goliah (who will not cost you one farthing) you may spin out a swinging annotation. You may ; say, the Giant Goliah, or Golist, was a Philistine, whom David the shepherd, slew with the thundering stroke of a pebble, in the valley of Tereb ntlius, vide Kings, such a I chapter and such a verse, where you may find it written." If not satis fied with this, you would appear a great humorist, and would show your knowledge in geography, by taking some occasion to draw the river Tagus into your discourse, out of which you may fish a most nota ble remark: " The river Tagus," sv calkd Jrum ii in such a place, anil buries its wa ters in the ocean, kissing first the walls of the famous city of Lisbon; and some are of opinion that its sands are gold, &c." I have vouchsafed these few rules from the abundance of niy wisdom and experience; and, if niy young brethren choose to disregard thein, and follow the advice of others, who may be old in years, but green in understanding, let them live obscure pittifoggers and he hanged.. SCjEVOLA. TROM THE SKETCH HOOK. I was once congratulating a friend who had around him a blooming fam ily, knit together in the strongest affection. ?? I can w ish you no better lot," said ho with enthusiasm, "than to have a wife and children ? if you are prosperous, there they are to share your prosperity; if otherwise, there they are to comfort you." And, indeed, I have observed that mar ried men falling into misfortune arc more apt to retrieve their situation in the world than single men; partly because they are more stimulated to exertion by the necessities of the help less and beloved beings who depend upon them for subsistence; but chiefly because their spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments, and their self-respect kept alive by finding that, though all abroad is darkness and humiliation, yet there is still a little world of love, of w hieh they are monarch... Whereas a sin gle man is apt. to run to waste and self neglect; to fancy himself lonely and abandoned, and his heart to fall to ruin like some deserted mansion, for want of an inhabitant. R F.TO R T C O U R TEO U S. Counsellor Rearrroft was employ ed in Mr. Vansittart's famous cause. In his address to the Jury, he said, that for brevity's sake, in the course of the trial, he should abbreviate Mr. Vausittart*s name, and call hiin Vuv. When Mr. Vansitt art's examina tion came on, he heggi-d leave that he might be indulged with the same liberty as the learned counsel, by i shortening his name, and he should th^ref' re call him Brur.
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