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Hie Mi ! nhatc'cr the Mum i Inapin , if mmiI the tuneful rtmin adnilrca....wTT. - j - V 7. , ' ' ' f BO T lUTIHOai FATaJftT. Know ye the Printctt hour of peace ! . - Know ye an hour mor fraugU with Joy, Than erer felt the roxid of Greece, , J , When kiaied by Venus' amVoua boy ? ?Ti wben round the maty fa; "' ; , - Jfii nimble fin jew kiii the f jr-i . ,! Ifor U it when with ilenghteocd face, Tbt sturdy fcwT tail he gTipe'a, Tii not when news of dreadful note, ' Ills columni all with minim S TU not when brother Printer! quote TV efTiuioni of his ttump worn quill : TU not when all his work is done, TirM and fatigued like any dog-, And heedless of his coming un, Grows merry o'er a glaaa of grog. Ti hot whea in Mlu Fancy' $ fUss Long AJvtrHimenh meet the eye, And seem to whisper as they pass, Well grace your columns Ay and by ' Nor is K when with numerous namci, Uis lengthened roll of rellum swells As tt 'twas touch'd by Conjurors' wand, Or grew by Faries' magic spells. No reader, no the Printer!, hour, " Ills lour of rtat sweet repose,'" b not when by some magic power, IHs list of Patrons daDy grows. But Oh, 'tis when the weather 's clear, Or clad in hail, or rain, or rapor, He hears, in accents soft and dear, ' I've cm4 t$VAYytu ft the PAPER!' . tlOM TII wit ruo. Oh ! I have met the smile of lore, Where all my fondest hopes were placed, And with a lover's art hare strove, To make that smile forever last. I've seen affection's brightest tear, Glide burning o'er a lovely check ; While modest hope and breathless fear, 8poke more than ever tongue could speak. J've teen the breast tumultuous heave, While passion ehoak'd toe rising sign $ Oh could I even then believe That love within that breast would die I Alas! how fickle woman's heart ! Her sighs, her tears, her vows, how rain ! The bliss her smiles to day impart, Her frown to-morrow turns to pain 1 TBI IICOXSISTIXT. When I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn;' They ought to be heavy; and wrinkled, and yellow ;' When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted, and called me an lugly old ftUo-n t Moral, lleligions, &lAteTar$. CHERISH ANDRACT1SE RELIGION. Man has been called, in distinction from the inferior .orders of creation, a religious being, and justly so called. For though his hopes and fears may be repressed, and the morally feelings of his heart stifled for a sea eon, nature, like a torrent which has been ob structed, will break forth, and sweep away those frail barriers which scepticism may have erected to divert its course. ' m; , ; rTbere vr something; so jrepulsiviEIEiaVed ndelityt 'themind approachei ifwiiK -reluctance, shrinks back from it with horror, and is never settled till it rests on potltivc re- . Iigion. I am aware that thai spirit of devotion, that : sense of guilt and dread of punishment, which "pervades the human mind, have been attribu ted to either the force of habit or influence of superstition.- To the position of irreligidn ists on this article, human nature itself fur .' nishes the, most satisfactory ref ufation v-Re-Jigioii is a first principle of man. It shoots tip from the. very , se at of life ; i t clea ves to the human constitution by a thousand Jiga xnents ; it entwines around human nature, and " sends4o the very bottom of the heart its pen etrating tendrils. It cannot therefore be $x terminated. The experiment has again and again been tried, and the result has always proved worthy of therash attempt. - r - Young as you are, you have witnessed, with view m mis extermination, tne most des ; nerate efforts.; But just now, a formidable host ".'ffff infuriate iendekkwere assembled. You heard them openly abjure -their; God. You saw them wreaking their vengeance on Telip:ion,-r-Fora season thev tritimnhf H ri the lip of devotion palsied bv their approach. With one hand, they seized the thunders of the heavens, and with the other, smote ins hn inhlhitl them. It SCCmcd tO m w w - w w " crumble at the stroke. Mounting these fan cied ruins, DLAsrutuT waved its terrific sceptre, and impiously looking up to those eternal heights where trie aeuy resiacs, c claimed VlcTOET.n I , Where now are those dreaded enemies of our religion?. They have vanished from the sight. They were but are teen no more. Nor have the consequences of their exertions neen more aniuing. n. grcai ihuwh iuuwm delivered froirTthe restraint! of moral obli (ration, and enfranchised with all the liberties of "infidelity, "were nroclaimed I tit. i But hare they continued so? No their minds presently recoiled from the, diimal waste which skepticism had opened before them, and the cheerless darkness it had spread around them. They suddenly arrested their step. - They re traced, in sadness and sorrow, the paths which they had trodden. They consecrated again the temnlcs thev had defiled : they rebuilt the altar they had demolished : they sighed for tne return oi mat religion tney nau oamsncu, and spontaneously promised submission to its reign. ' What are we to infer from this ? That re ligion is congenial to human nature $ that it is inseperable from it. A nation may be se duced into skepticism, but it cannot be con tinued in it. Why, I would ask, has relig ion existed in the world in ages which are past why does it exist now why will it ex ist in ages to come ? Is it because kings have ordained, and priests defended it ? No ; but because God formed man to be religious. . Its great and eternal principles, are inscribed on his heart ; they are inscribed, in characters which are Indelible ; nor can the violence of infidelity blot them out. Obscured, Indeed, they may be by the influence of sin, and re main not legible during the rage of passion. But a calm ensues : the calm of reason, or the night of adversity, from the midst of whose darkness a light proceeds, which ren ders the original inscription visible. Mar. now turns his eye inward upon himself. He reads 44 Responsibility,' and as he reads, he feels a sense of sin and dread of punish ment, tie now pays from necessity an hom age to religion an homage which cannot be withheld: it is the homage of his nature. We have now traced its -effect to its cause, and Tefeired-this abdinrxrait Au th human character, to its principle.- The question is not, then, whether you will embrace religion ? Religion you must em bracebut whether you will embrace reveal ed religion, or that of erring and blind phi losophy. And with respect to this question can vou hesitate f The former has infinitely more to recom mend it than the latter. It originated in heaven It is founded not on conjecture, but on fact. Divinity manifested itself in the person, and shone in the life of its Author. True, he appeared in great humility ; but though the humility, in which he appeared had been greater than it was, either the sub limity of his doctrines, or the splendor of his 1 11 ...r.' . i . acuuns nau ucen buincicni 10 evince nis :ies siahship, and prove that he was the Saviour of the world. He spoke as man never snoke ! Whence did he derive wisdom so transcend- ant ? From reason ? No ; reason could not gire it, for it had it not to give. What rea son could never teach, the Gospel teaches ; that in the vast and perfect government of the universe, vicarious sufferings can be accept ed ; and that the dread Sovereign, who ad- iu imsici s umi . government, is eracious as well as just. Nor does it rest in declaration merejy It exhibits, before our eyes'the altar and the victim the Lamb of God, which UKeth-awaynnrsmsnDtnherworldr what is not my fnutt, Lut my misfortune.' If your allegation, Le not true, your impudent speech only shcVs how mud more detestable a liar is than a brute.' . The strong conclusive aspect and ferocity of manner which accompanied the utterance of these words, from t poor author to a nufse- Sroud bookseller, made a deep impression in ohnson'a favour, and-secured him, perhaps, more respect than civility, in hii subsequent intercourse with the trade, than any other transaction In his life. - - -;r Goldsmith, who hated the prudery of John ion's morals, and affected to ridicule the fop pery or-Hawkesworth'a 'manners, vet varmly. admired jbe&niuijifjto a raong his acquaintance, that Johnson would have made lecent Monk, and Hawkesworth a good dancing matter, :NThrfclv' johnson; r-- Long before Mr. Johnson broached the idea of his Dictionaryor- any other "work which chiefly contributed tcr; raise and estab lish his literary reputation, he was much with a bookseller of -eminences who- fretrnentlv consulted him abput manuscripts for Ijalejor books newly published ; but whenever John son'a opinion happened to differ from his, he would stare Johnson full in the face, and re mark with much gravity and arrogance wish you; could write as xvell. This, Jbhnson thought, was literally telling a professional man that he was an impostor, or that he as sumed a character to which he was not equal ; he therefore heard the gross imputation once or twice with silent contempt. One day, noweyer, in tne presence ot several gentle men who knew them both, this bookseller very incautiously threw out the same illiberal opinion. Johnson could suppress his indig natioi no longer 4 Sir,' said he, 4 you are trucj ybtT haveil biiitifity to insult me xtnh t aois Toa a sTaospspTi u l iniir. It is a common error among u the great vulgar and the small" to look upon Hudibra as extremely to in fact, as a mere bur lesque. It is as much above u the common cry'1 of burlesque, as the novels of Fielding and the author of Waver Icy are above the ephemeral trash of the Minerva Press. It is a mighty and comprehensive satire as powerful in argument as just in sentiment as rich in illustration, as any that united wit and learning have ever produced. All the weapons of controversial warfare invec tive, irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are alter nately and successfully wielded. The most opposite and conflicting absurdities the ex crescences of learning and the bigotry of ig norance time-honoured' prejudices "and follies of recent growth or importation are laid prostrate 44 at one fell swoop." Butler makes none but " palpable hits. His sen tences have the pithy brevity of a proverb, with the sting of an epigram. His subject was local and transitory his satire jxjund less and eternal. His greatest fault i pro fusionhe revels and runs riot in the prodi gality of his imaginings he bewilders him self and his readers amidst 44 thick-coming fancies" his poem is o'er-infdrmed with wit, and dazzles and overpowers by an unremit ting succession of brilliant confiscations. His narrative is,- to its embellishments, but as "one poor half pennyworth of bread to all this intolerable quantity of sack." The ad ventures are meagre and unsatisfactory i we u Make future times shake hands with latter, And that which was btfore come after,' x without impairing or confusing the story. Like Bayes, in The ReheartaL our author probably thought a plot was good for nothing but to bring in good things, and consequently troubled himself very little about its consist ency or probability. His hero is the perso nification of contradictions he is not the re presentative of a class, a sect, a party but of all classes, sects, and parties. ' It has been said of Dryden's bouncing Almanzor, that all the rays of romantic "heat, whether. amorous or warlike, glow in him by a kind of concen tration: the tollies, and vices, and deformi ties of human nature, seem concentrated in Sir Hudibras. The litigious justice and the crazy knight-errant, " In soul and body too, unite ' To make up one hermaphrodite." The Geneva cap and band peep from beneath the rusty helm and buckler of chivalry. Aquinas s bum 6J all I neology - and Ovid s An Amandi tht Asscmblu't Annotations and the Mirrour of Knighthood jostle on the shelves, ot Jus library, With rwiO ingenotlRh? iFr sawed into quantities? ' torfit out all the heroes of all the octosyllabic, epics uav nave ever uccu wimcD, nc"is lurneaoui to make us sport as a coxcomb and a drivel-ler-;Vith more cunning than 44 Nick Ma chiavel," he is the butt and dupe of the knavery of duller spirits and is abused, gul led," and buffeted, through eight long cantos, without measure or mercy. , It is perhaps idle to criticise a work, writ teii jn deftance o criucism and, unjust to try genius by ; Jawsto, which it owns tio alle 'glance ; but Butler can afford to be found fault with. After making every possible deduction in thl estiilte" of'lii remain one of the most original and fjowerful writers which this or any country has produ ced. That he had all the capabilities of more elevated composition than that in'which he has. been contented to excel, is sufficient ly obvious in the paces of his Hudibras VVe find scattered through the work a profu- oiwH w linages anu scniimenis essentially poetical; the beauty of which, .though ob scured, cannot be entirely hidden by the homeliness of their dress. ' coming on IlISTOltiCAL RRMCUnnANCF.R. :Tlie number o' inhabitants on this globe Is estimated to be COO millions-Of theie 220 are Christians, JO n '.llions Jews, 210 mill, ions Mahometans, and 450 millions Pagans. Of these professing the Christian religion there arc 50 millions of Protesting, 30 mill ions of the Greek and Armenian churches and 90 millions of Catholics. , The aggregate population on the surface of the known habi table globe is 890 millions of souls. If we reckon, with the "ancients, that a generation lasts thirty Vears-in that , space the above number of human beings will be born and die j consequently81 ,76XTmust be dropping hour, or about 36 every minute how awful a re flection! ' ' PotaiQcii were first "carried to England from "America,:: jry Ha wkins,: 1563i;introdu :: ced into Ireland by Sir Walter Ilaleigh, 1S86 ; they were natives of a province of Quito, and are named from the village of Potate, in the assieote of Ilambald, in that kingdom The Canal in China, extending from Can ton to Pekin, in a strait line, is upwards of 80G miles in length, having 75 locks, 4t large cit ies on Its banks," and above 10,000 vessels on its surface 30,000 men were employed for forty-three years in malting it. - LYTEItEXTLVQ MEMORANDA. It is 328 years since John (?abot first dis covered North America, 236 since Sir Wal ter Raleigh more perfectly explored it, 240 since the first permanent cojonvwas planted in Virginia ; 208 sincejtfew-Amsterdam, now New-York, was, settled, 500 since the land ing of the Pilgrim's at Plymouth, 44 since the commencement ofoiir national cxistehceVand 31 since the adoption of our present national government. ' v JESUITS,;: The order of Jesuits was founded at Rome in thejjear 1540, by Pope Paul 3d, in the rein of the Eighth Henry of England, and4' their number limited to CO During his pon tificate,: the celebrated Council of Trent as sembled, and Henry 'was excommunicated. The limitation ol the number of Jesuits to 60 did not long continue; Their numbers in 1608, were 10,581 in 1679, 17,655 ; in 1710, 19,923. In 1717, they had 714 colleges and other establishments, more than 200 missions. 161 seminaries, and 19,867 memben, inclu ding 10,056 priests. The affairs of the or der were conducted-by one general, 37 pro vincials, 350 priors, and other officers. - A fter having been for some years abolished, the order was restored in 1815, by the present monarch of Spain, Ferdinand VII., who, at the same time, and in the same pious spirit, re established the Holy Inquisition. , MEMORY. v . . To some one who was complaining of want of memory, Johnson said, 44 Pray, sir, do you ever forget what money .you are worth, or who gave you the last kick on your shins ? Now if you would pay the same attention to what you read as you do to your temporal concerns and your bodily feelings, you would impress it as deeply in your memory WANTS, -which every me mutt feet. Virtue wants..... jf2crrr votaries ; Wisdom wants...-more earnest suppliants ; and Truth wants.... m friends and admirers. 4 Pure and undefiled Religion' wants.... said'Sbout the theory, and more done about the practice ofitu-- " TTPhilantnropy yants..,.& jes!idencei. and Fi- delints,aii3 'Z ' ;oWiM;c credit. Pride-wantSrto ht-iicied out of company,- andjlumility introduced young' fellow, who hears of-any flwow, (or r . . ! U!nry even oi iwo persons oi ainerent sexes uciu seen to converse together,) yntoUjnightily to be at the bottom of it. Every girl in America, above fifteen, (not already provided for-waBts.....a-HysBAND., THE PRESS. , No maxim, is more true tlian this, " that no liberty can survive -the liberty oi the press." It breathes a soul into the body of the people ; it forms their manner; and by teaching them their duties and their rights, and inspiring them with sentiments of virtue and courage, by which both are to be enfor ced, introduces the empire of REASoK'tb the universe: it is the vestal fire, upon the pres ervation of which the fate of Nations de pends; and the most pure hands, Officiating for the whole . community, should be inces santly employed in keeping it alive jferyf he has withstd thaf ofs" fior, and that superioFa xvoiian i
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