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Literary Exteltence, c. of the 1 Bible
" It has G65 for It Author ; Salvatiwi foV
its end ; ,ftn:i tmth, without any mixture - of
error, tor its matter. '. r ; . IiOcfce ; . ,
Of the Bible, it may be truly said, that7
in whatever way we regard it 't is tbe.ntf
plasTultra of excellence. If we look at' it
as a mere Jiterary, prodaction, it stands
pre-emtnent over every other volume in
the world ;v or if we reeard It as the re
vealed word and will of: God,, then, .in- ,
deed, It is u qaick-and powerful, piercinsr
even to -dividin? iassander of L soul and,:
Spir.t, and ofthe joints and marrow ; or
whence look ar.t-as.a system W a
what a thesaurus of golden roles is this
one book f i In all things it is the: Chris
tian' treasury whether in the letter or
in the ' spirit ; and, there are jihoiisgnds
who1, have ' experienced an exkaustless
source of spiritual and intellectual enjpv-
mem in ineir praciu:ai tuay or i.n u.cs-:;
5PQ .volume j SUilliai ll . was jusujf 1-
marked bv a latef eminent divine, that
c the most learned, acute, and diligent
student, cannot, in the lonsest life, obtain
an entire knowledge of this one volume;
because, the. more deeply he works the
mine, me rtcner ana more aounaani 11 e
finds the. ore." ' Hi""- ' ; V -' -'Tr'.
. ". A a literary, production, beauty of ex
pressionutmost sublimity'of imagery, un-
. equalled grandeur of idea, the most har
monious periods, the softness and melli-
fluousness of its verse, and the eloquence
and cogency , of every component prt,
L D-ui
the Bible.
is the author
are the characteristics of
Viewed in this point, where
or the volume that has half s engaged
the attention and labours of mankind ?
Homer, Euripides, Xenophon, Merian
der, Virgil, and many others, , have, ! in
deed, all employed the abilities f and la
bours of past ages; and volume after vol
ume have been composed, in annotation
tne,DiDie nas excuea r . v uai arc an
itiese comparea wnn wnai nas oeen xvui-
v Msieeaveos. r
ana xoramen upon various voium jof system ; hundreds of veins to bring
those geniuses of antiquity ; but what is , it faack loils reservoir; the heart r 'thou
this, compared with the .attention whiehr, . nf, f nds CTeiine humours of va-
1 :. - - ; t - r.
ten on the contents of this blessed book ;.aDd conveying nutriment to -the circula
Ihey are but as a partial drop of water in ; ,;ng t fluU1 raiii,ons bf "pores ' through
an universal sea Not to mention, in- ' vllcn tne perspiration is -continually is
deed,. thai-many of t.iose great authors suing5 an, infinity, of -ramification lof
tliemselves read and borrowed many of nerves diffusing sensation throughout all
their grand ideas from the sacred writ- the parts of this exquisite 'machine; and
ings; thus, Homer sems to have copied the iearl at every pulsation: exerting a
thidea of his list -of warriors from the forcej of a hundred thousand pounds, in
enumeration of David's worthies Vitgil order tb preserve all this complicated ma
has; it is well known copied the subject r chinery in constant operation ! The
of the fifty-third chapter of lsaian for the ( whole of this vast system of mechanism
tiremeoi nis rouo,-ana many, ouiers.
ample proofs that the Bible has been the
subject of admiration and imitation in all
ages! ; Lonplnus bore - ample, testimony,
and jnffirmed it to be the very excellent
of excellency,-and divine I Nay; more ;
even infidelity has been 'constrained to
admire, while it contemned the sacred
oracles of the Most Ilich, and seems to
IiuVp felr conscious of its wrone fulness,
in recting them as the;role of life and
euidn to Heaven. Let us hear the sentii
ments or..!hat.welivKnownscepiicaiw
Air. .Ghubb.: ; j-x . V ' t1
- in winsiswr ua.C diVwd...,.,c
quiet and peaceable spirit 5 of a becom-
ing modesty and sobriety; just and hon-
" In M.risti we nave art example o .a
est ;-upricnnanU: sincere: ana, auove
. . 1 . . . ' - 1 ' 1
all, of a nost gracious and benevolent thal g0Verns these nice and compli-
temper aad fcehavtour; , One who did no caled mavements ? Did he setthe'heait
.00 injury to any man ; - in whose ? in motion or eriaue it with the muscular
mouth was no guile.; who went j about A (orce jt exerts i And when it has ceased
-domg good, not .onl by his preaching 1 to beal) can command it again to re
Vlfy but also in curing all man- t -me junctions v Ala kubWs neitlier'
ner ot diseases among the people. His
" " "Tr.'"' t" "l tiu,u.. .
lure,
....w. ii. liauyr UIIIV NIIU IIJI
irny ana simr-i
i.V4v, onu rcu i uuce, wnai excel-
. "1 ' - -
lent creatures me would be, when:underking,y denionstrate our dependence every
the influence and power of that gospel
ll$n
wlncii he preached to them." Aston
fonish-
in-: ruai man iioKia force mmseit oe-
that man -shoisld force himself be-
VvuY.Ciiun, iooe an inmirt: t he machiuery within ds, and over which
: V 'J us hear, the celebrated French , we haVe ho control, either broken or de-.
fliaturahst, Rousseau: V r - , ! .. ranged, a thousand movements might in
; - 51 confess, thatL the majesty of. the stantv be interrupted tid-our bodies
ccrrend the holiness of the gospel, ,eft crumble into the dust. M .4: -
greatly afiect mt; View the books of if - r . . ,V ; v
the j philosophers with If; theWmiKii ?T.a Wd?f"w?. .".V!
how jiule do bey.appear placed beside Jhflebrat
this ! Is it possible that a b6ok, at once h af16 lrlfOPa5PWcfy; to
so sublime and simple, can beithe worV"0" -WrR
v of nien ?, Ir it possible that he '.whose fmusl ?ave operated in" ordaining the law?
history it records, carr. be but asmere , bving beings: are constructed,
raan? " Does' be speak in the- tone of an yAnd he' wrote his etwlleht treatise
enthttswslor of an ambitious .aectarv-?-' s?s Par 9 the human fran'f;
:whai mildness," what purity in his nanl i as a splein hymn to the NCreator of the
' I . nroon in hi. in J
Ktrnoiinno f hn it ol.troliin in hia mav- 5 w lie says, iu w uiscii.,o - ivuiw.miwmim . vr . j V- i I-
i l j u.- a - terwards bv the same means to show biro h these " bold many terms in the year, so 1 the duels ;
cuurPl w ,BnM nf mind what ;to others; to inform them, how great is that justice: may literally be said to be 1 place at L
12!? I1??1 , pf f ' Wbat his isdr his goodness tits" jo er brought to the door of every man, and to in the Me
uey, i, scptt, ! ' ' -' , w laic ui fiumer ua? uusci vcu, lUdi , gumu cvciy uau a uw cm& . - ; """-r"": . " ..:., ;. ,
ingenuiiy 5 - and what justness in his an- jastronomj and aoatomyvare ; the: :sodies If'wbuld be a af calcalatfon to say,
$wers t Kat "empire over his passions if fwhichX present! qri with"? tfttf most 'j!.str .llijSt thWeirei; gbt:th:ousand lawye;jn
'yheTejs'.thV nianjrwUe of tbe twa rnoWtvonderfupt the
Who knows how to act; to suforalhd in the principles, of out; Go
die, without weakness and without ostenUobese fills the ntih
itation?,'f -O infidelity ! that, selftonvic- A
ted and sejf-hardened, are thus,ialaam
like," constrained to praise where thou
didst intend to scoff! ; ; ' ; ' v '- "
: But Co - return 5 where n the f whole
massy volumes of -v antiquity .' and' modern
times, r where da we ,fiud any Uhlng" that
may " be placed 1 in competition .with tli6
scriptures in point of subliTiity ? 4 Where
is there any thing ' like that! celebrated
picture of the horse in 'Job' that has
baffled the Imitative attempts of the Au
gustan and al other ages ? Where do
we find the song of 'Deborah and Barak
equaired ? .Where U therej a paraltef to
the holv sons of 'Moses : "and the timbrel
Htl.i.in. nri n.mlil I'llfa that Itictllf OH.
T of Sbnjfwhic1--i
? Are! not these the 'very
we ever find,, say an eloquent divine,f
I " sorrow flowing, forth Jn such a natural
prevailing pathos, as in the, lamantiohs of
Jeremv J-i-one would think,' that every
v letter was' wrote with a tear ; every word
was the voice of a braakin heart: thai the
aulho as a- raan compacted of sorrows,
- . . 1. . .r .-. . . . .
disciplined to grief from his very infancy;
t one wlio never breathed but in sighs, nor
.spoke but in a groan !" f " .
-LJK - ; ' : ' '1 W. H. B.
' t DrJ Soath's Sermons, vol.! ir. p 31.
" From Dick's Christian Philosopher V
The economy of . the human frame,
when seriously contemplated, has a ten
dency to excite admiration and astonish
ment, and to impress us with a sense of
our continual dependence on a Superior
Porter What an -immense' multiplicity
of machinery must be in action to enable
us 0 breathe," to feel, and to walk !
- r uL.: r .i:.:fi.i i
connected together by various modes' of
articulation ; hundreds of i muscles to
produce motion,1 each of them acting ' in
at least ten different capacities : hundreds
of tendons and ligaments to connect the
bones and muscles ; hundreds of arteries
to convey the blood to the remotest part
couy tnds fr0m the
blood ; thousands
lacteal and Ivmnbatic tubes absorbing
1
r mun be iri actidri,' before ! we can wait
across bur apartments ! : Y admire the
operation of a steam engine and the force
it exerts; But though it is constructed of
the hardest material which the mines can
j supply, in a few months,; some of its es
sential parts are wo rnA and deranged,
even although its action should ' be fre
5 quen tly discontinued But the animal
- machine, though ' constructed, for the
I most part, . of the softest and ' most 'flab-
bv substances, can eo on Without inter-
m-t:rtn ;v, n u divriclfiprf rnnvpmW
eighty bra hundred years ! the heart civ-
j ing ninety-six ithOusahd i
.twen,y-four hours, and the
of blood rushing through a t
ine ninetv-six fthousahd -strokes ever v
le whole V masi
ihonsand hin.
a ,0 , ; r i
-f Hrr ViMiPito f.mr imiti-Vi Ahri ; U
! the secret springs 'of the -machinery with-
lin nim, nor . the half of the purposes lor
t,;.K;iK- .t
I ajv. iav w 4 vj
t. ak-ihar nr I U m,.monlo
,,p Wrfnrm' fan anv thinirmnrP stri-
; moment on1 a superior i: Agent and ; that
i it is ; " w GoZ we; live and' move, ' ana
have out being ?" Were a single pin of
1 woria. ; t ursi enaeavour f irom is
his immensity in r the jaigenessi distances.
and number of the Heavenly bodies ; the
last astonishes tis wltli his inteligence and J
art in the, variety and delicacy of animal
mechanism. ; -
"ENGEAND'-flFTY 1 EARS AGO. .; j
u In seventy years," says the Annual
Register," f the ; people of Great Britaii
have advanced full eight millions innuni
ber. Jn twenty-five years, the .,' number
of inhabited houses in England andWals.
alone have advanced one ;r half. Fifty
years ago, the very existence of . canals
I was a matter of incredulity. Fifteen mil
lions of public wealth have now i been
fpfofitabty absorbed i by thesCmihty,
ducts ; and, at least, half asnuchmore is
at this hour destined for. their fortnation.
Fifty years ago, there was hardly 1 steam
engina in
the kingdom. Therdcannot
now pe Jess than twelve tnouana a
creation of power equal to at least a quar
ter of a million, of horses aninergy,
. which in a single day, would have' raised
up the great pyramid of Egypt. Fifiy
years ago, oar annual export of maiufac
tured cotton did not amount to a qijarter
of a million in value ; it has now .swollen
to nearly thirty millions. In the Same
period, jour exported j woollens, iq dpfi-
ance of Saxon, that uf two millions. -Fif
ty 3 ears ago, our imports of raw silk were
only three hundred thousand; weight ;
they are now;riearly ;. three afillidns." Fif
ty years 'ago, our export of iron was hard
ly urelve thousand tons ; it is now a
bout ten times as much. . Fifty years ago,
bur exports of linens wwerei about four
millions, of yards 5 they are now nearly
forty millions'. . Fifiy'years ago, the whole
value of our exported produce both ,; na
tive and foreign, was just fifteen millions
of money. ; the valuV of British 'produce
exported alone, js now morethan -Qtty
millions. ' A hundred and twenty years
ago, says old Tucker, there were only t wo
or three vessels in. Scotland above two
bundled tons ; r pur whole tonnage is now
more than a quarter ofa million, employ
ing5 twenty thousand sou Is? . , A hundred
and' fifty vears ago, says . Chalmers, the
whole navy of Britain i did not amount to
a hundred thousand tbnarjpitis 'nowt at.
least, three millions of tons, employing
about two hundred thou$and souls.";
; Fifty years ago Th$ country con
sisted of thirteen 'distracted provinces,
struggling for! independence, without any
government but such as necessity produ
ced and common (danger kept together ;
tiilh a, population not exceeding three
millions "in number ; not a single legisla
tor of regular authority,.. not a commis
sioned magistrate among the whole. The
fountains of instruction were dried up ;
tbe ploughshare was' beaten into swords,1
and the pruning hook into spears. The
war roged-but we.werewitliout arms,
munitions of war, or naval force; distress
was every where 4 around us, arid; hope
hardly, . gilded the dark - clouds winch
; hung over the 1 land. Fifty years has
done much. In that time the population
has vl increased, nine or tenr millions.
Twenty-four sovereign and independent
States have- been formed. A . general
Government, has, also' been foirmed, by
their union. : Legislators and magistrates,
with legitimate and wholesome authority,
are found in sufneient numbers for all the
"purposes of guidance and protection : the
1 former, including Congress, from States
and Territories, probably, amount to four
thousand. There are 216 members of
jhe House of Representatives in the Na
tional Legislature, and, forty-eight Sena
tors. 4 It is a reaso nable calculation, , and
With in. bounds,, tpj say, that the average
number ..of the, severil State Legislatures
is equal to one hundred and fifty for. each
State. These added ;to the number of
members ofCoogresSjvamount i tbthree
thousand eight huad red and sixty-four-4-aiid
with the niembers of the Legislative
Councils " of the sevefafTrritoriesy will
make i up the four thousand. u All these
mast be considered laboring for the pub
lic weal, in , advancing ; knowledge, eu
couraging virtue, ; and .extending. all the
blessings of civilized lite, .Tliese bodies
are constantly changing; in such a .man
ner as to keep up a regular succession of
classes in the 'great ;a.chbolaifs-pbHiical
instruction ? here, are alsa forty Judges
of the United ,; States'tCourts-wbo hold
on an average four, terms, at leasr, a year,
. L1j ill i;
for benefit oHb
pepphJ,Eacb;Siatebas Itsicn sover
eign concerns a number of judges, in their
several courts, supreme,' ,comihon pjeas ,
countyV10 lmQnicPal . courts .at, least
equal .. to ; three times the number of its
1 veroments ;Jand of course, so many pub
j He (nsiructdrs in the great duties of free-
mep. In ; the various- courts, on a mo
derate calculationV there are four hundred
thousand suits brought in a yearJ These
may; be to sbfne, painful lessons of wis-
dom, but are, nevertheless, often- very
salutary modes of getting knowledge."
There can be but ery little arbitrary
power, when so many ; appeals are made
to judicial tribunals. The short-sighted
who groan at this feature of ; tbe picture,
maybe consoled by reflecting that there
are not half as many suits brought in
Algiers or at -Constantinople in a year as
in this country 1 : if v vXO f&'Sd: .
Fiftu wjm f no -fisive built , no numer-
ous other institutions of civil life Schools pereropjtory. BesidesV:;! hadv no; great 1
of learning abound in every part of bur fears ofthe result of the duel 5 'I presum-;
land. : , Five millions of dollars that the shadow of a sword, sabre or
annually for what may fairly be calledj pistol, was not to be found ine the whole
primary instruction in the several States.! island, and I fancied that these- worthies
The medical schools, and - the professors were going to have a game at fisty-cufTs,
of the healing art j are numerous and in-" in imitation : of . the . ancient Romans, to
creasing. There is oue perhaps wanted, whom they already bore so much resem
to every fifteen hundred inhabitants, and blance.! But I soon saw that a determin
the number has been estimated to amount ed 'mind will always find means to ac
to seven thousand now. in practice. This cbmplish its purpose. Before setting out
U also a moderate calculation. The suf-i Ricaud said, that as be was the person
feringsof humanity are certaiftly amelio-j challenged, he had the choice of wea
rated from the advancement in skill and pons, and wished to fight with, scissors,
science which-this profession has made!" You know,", said Lambert, a corporal
4 within a few years past. The great
schools of morals and divinity, the pul- of, that J am ' unacquainted with the
pits of this country, require about as ma-! 'point,' 30 that if we wish to fight on equal
ny more professors ; but tlie number is terms, let us draw the ra6r.,V This sad
hot probablv so great at present. j Jy puzzled me, for I had no idea of the
:: Fifty years ago, we had but a trifling.; raatterj Ricaud was determined to have
commerce, a scanty agricultural interest ; the scissors ; Lambert would not giye up
iin manufacturing establishments ': 'no la-
bor-saving machines ; no canals, no steam
, , -. '
boats, but Tew bridges- scarcely a mine
of coal or metals opened, or science e
nough to discover, or work them, if dis-.
coveredr-not a mail- coach running, nor
a turnpike niade. Our commerce is more
valuable now than Great Britain's was at
that period and our agricultural produce
.is increased twenty;fojdi Our manufac
turiug establishmeritsji employ seventy
thousand people, and the labor saved by
useful inventions isHncalculablei . More
than a thousand miies of canal commu
nication has been completed, : or nearly
so ; and more' than an hundred bridges
which span large rivers, besides a count
less number of small ones, have been
erected within fifty years. Turnpikes to
the extent'of a number of miles equal to
that from our own country to China have
been made since that period within our
limits. Fifty years ago, there was not a
steam boat on the globe ; now more than
three hundred of them navigate the wa
ters of ou r cou n t ry, on the sea-board and
the interior. Coalmines have become
so numerous that the philosopher no lon
ger fears that the want of fuel will retard
the progress of population. ; . tv
Fifty years has taught us that the bow
els of the eat lh is full of metals of all sorts
for the use of civil life. Shafts are sin
king in every pait of our country, and in
half the terni'nf fifty years to come we
shall not have to; go abroad for any but
the precious metals, and perhaps not for
them Iron and copper, the two great
metals, we have in abundance; Our con
veniences for travelling have so much in
creased, that by stage and steam boat,
the number of miles performed in the
United States each day, -during 'a consi
derable part of the year, is estimated to
amount to three times the extent of the
circumference of uur globe. 7 The value
of the buildings in theUntted States are
worth' more than fifty times thesum they
were in 17Tf from their increased nuoi'
ber and superior structure. 7F ' ; -1
'! It is consoling to reflect, that amidst
this ) prosperity S anb general influx ' of
wealth, that offence and crime have' not
increased, as those who motirri over the
depravity of the- times would imagine.
Of cohvicts' for felonies or high handed
misdemeanois, there is about one yearly
to every two tbousandthree hundred in
habitant's. The i-carjital ' punishments
throughout the. United .States have ;not
been, for fifteen 'years past, more than
oney early to every million of inhabitants,
not so many since-the first settlement : of
this' country, as suffered in one year in
England, in thereign of Henry VIII. or
Elizabeth.'- Common schools and mild
Jaws are - the "best methods to prevent
criraesi f The, subiect might be pursued
tb a great extentWyTheaiaobf lejsure
should do it, for t the amusement pride,
and benefit of his countrymen. Vs"
. ' 1 - rJalibnaVJouriiaL:
Duels . of -French'. Soldiers. In " the
"Adventures of a French Sergeant,' the
. . -. " ' ' . - .' "
following tjaugnapie account is lounu 01
that' were constantly , taking
JWW flSHSWlS; 's1"
for French prisoner
-'jjm-r-Jil '-LMI f than !
iir war. iivapuus wcjc wih vuivh ...;
foco; bat the point of honour was to ; be"
maintained by razors and scissors, wbeh
swords and pistols 'could not be procured r
; The sun had just risen, when Ricaud
roused me to request raesto act as his se
cond. ' L was not in' one of 'those beds
from wliich cine rises whhetuctahec.-
Our dressing arrangements were so6n
made, and as we had entered our hot tha ,
evening beforeth?ad-foremost, and were
unable to turn ourselves, , we crawled put
one after another feet foremost, . resting
upon our heels and elbows. - .'1-'
After drinking some rum with Ricaud
and his antagonist; Ijried to bring abput
a reconciliation, butihey . told me it, was
of no use, ,rand they both declared that
the tiring; must , be done. 1 was too! well
acquainted with military customs to make ,
apy attempt at combatting a reason; sov
of a regiment 1 hadiorgotien tue name
thelrazors 3 so that they were forced f,o
. . . .. 1
draw
ots when the latter gained bis
; point
He
left us and returned 'in about a
quarter of an hour,1 with a pair of English
razors
During his absence, Ricaud bad
instructed me, concerning 'the manner in
which they were going to fight, and the
kind of duels that ; daily took place at
Cabreira. Sometimes they- fixed the
halves of razors at the end of long sticks,
and used them as swords ; at other times
they used knife blades, razors, and some
times even awls and sail-maker's needles.
We took two sticks about an inch thick,
and 3 feet long, and prepared to fix the
razors on them. But as we had not what
was necessary for the purpose, we went
to the bazaar to buy some articles., This
was; the market for the prisoners. It
was situated at a spot ; honored with the
name of Palais Royal, surrounded by ten
or twelve huts, and containing as many
stailsjWme in the open air, others with
a slight covering with one end fixed to
the ground; and the other supported by
two poles Here were sold bread, some
salt fish, scraps of cloths, thread, needles,
wooden forks and - spoons, the ' various
produce of the industry. of the prisoners ;
pepper, twine, and other articles in the
smallest quantity, for one could buy a
single thread, a scrap of cloth no b?gger
than bhe's hand and even a pinch of
snuff,' three of which cost a sous. .1 re
member a Polish officer who owed for
nine pinches, and the ehop keeper re
fused to give him any more credit. '
VVe bought two bits of twine', and af
ter fixing op the weapons, we hastened to
the cemetery. It was on a hill about a
quarter of an hour's walk from the Palais
Hoyal. ' Since the arrival of the prison
ers at Cabreira, they had uniformly cho
sen this spot as a place ' of rest for those
who had sunk under their misery, or who
had fallen by the hands of their compan
ions; it was there that they also met to
settle their differences, in a single combat.
t.i AVhen we reached the ground, I again,
for form's sake, spoke, about making the
mattejtup. When I saw they were de
termined on fighting, I told them that as
I. was thei first cause of ;the quarrel, it
was for me to uphold it, and take Ri
caudfs place, i Neither he nor his adver
sary !would agree to this, and 1 , saw my
self forced &t last to give . them up the
weapons, : which I had carried till now.
Ricaud threw 'off his waistcoat ; and as
Lambert had nothing but pantaloons on
he. was soon ready, . They. put them
selves m a ffgliting attitude, and both dis
played great coolness and courage. -?
; jlfnbert was much tbe stronger of the
twoj and my friend required all bis skill
to parry the thrusts'.tbat were aimed at
him J'tbe4 razor flourished round hi
head and shoulders, without intermission.
and struck: him at last on the chin.4 He
made a furious thrust in return, but for
tunately it did not reach Us Object fully,
though it made a pretty scratch on Lam
bert's nose : we . rushed ' b t ween tberdj 4
when blood began jto fljiw:; we separated
them and made them V shake ; hdods ; as
qUcerwe oil rttbrned io bakfa.t 10-.
their wounds were naty of much; conse-
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