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JAttAGUAPH FROM A FAMILY ALBUM-
To uad vtiviioiit reiteciiuii i in read
Ufitituui prufii. An intelligent & well
duitpiiued tmud ti formed by much
tbibkiug, rather than by much read
ibg. Aod il is ifcause oin; people
reJ rvery tding and dig s n.-.liiug,
tbd. the. i reading "hen mikes il ;m
rtuu uiuUm. 1 heir head ate full o
da . ..er l hare known a lea ued
d'cfur compound his d seoure i
Join miscoli ueous asseuitnuges
tliogt, and with such lu.iicrou tttVei,
. . i i
a .ii ho I a hi w 'tiuering neater i
lan which m more than I intended
1 shall add an x'ruet or two wbe'
ri taken at random from 'ir reper
!ry. Pa-hens.
POSTHUMOUS INFLUENCE.
It is n" afl'eeting consideration tha'
ir f. llit g sneak when we are dee.di
'io less than our virtues. We die
hut our example lives. It continues
(o exert its iutlueuce, while we have
no longer power to undo the evil we
'iive done, of i any measure to can,
LuiuLro iJj. ef.... w e h a v ,
bequeathed to our survivors. "Be
!"g dead, he yet aprakcth' These
words struck me with melancholy
foree, when, .a few days since, as I
vat sitting in a reading-room, the si
lence of the place was broken by the
sudden laughter of one reading a witty
but profane author Being dead, he
yet speakeh he still utters his sar
cjU'TitftTOdimuJortalitiii unswer.with
Mirth. But how sad I could not h.-lo
Ski' .
pass? a habitation.
e'anding naked lo the
however spacious.
sun,
nothing
with
no
invihnw
thinir.ortiuuientaf,
around it, I cannot help saying to my
self, However abundant may be the
slovenly possessions of its owner,
there ia no refinement in that house;
'hefe U no delicate and kindly in
terchange of sentiment am oner its in
mate, and if ever they are sociable, Bible with plates
fneir a oeiableness consists tn rude and boards are covered
mutt have been a freeziog ' study.
BcMide.his portrait ii hung a German
exposition of the text". "'Death is swal-
refleetiug how sad to one in eternity I 'our,eilhe wayfaring mail as he
must be the consideration that he is f a"r luv C,UB 01 l,,c UB7
ft ft ft a. ft)A ft ft
lowed up in victory,77 n Ins own
handwriting, and written in the form
ij'which old books often terminate,
ah iuverted pvramid there is a copy
of his Bible su full of every good illu
minations, that it mieht be called a
1 he woollen
with inaeniaus
fl ful oquaeity. Their books are few, carving and gilding, and studded with
fVUoe iJI-chof en and unread But pieces of coloured glass to wiJL
if I nriiee a "dwelling, however Tium TtiTe wnieh so frequeot-"
bl, which is apparently as snug as ly adorn the manuscripts ot the
U owner, ha means to make it, dis-; church. It is said to have been the
playing neatness and taste in its fen-' work of a hermit of Ihe sixteenth
ees, and shades, and shrubbery, with i century, who thus employed bin le;s
perhaps a tasteful summer house in nre hours to do honour to. Luther;
a luxuriant garden, and llower-pots , yet pmtestant hermits are seldom to
at the windows, I feel assured that! be met with." Q.
this is the ahode of refinement; this is 'J ' -
(he home f quiet and ra-timtsl enjoy-
if in. oi intelligent and Kindly inter
n ikt American rnrmerr -
Description or a Oood House.
(Sitr. From an apparentlv very old
still a mirth-maker for the unthink-earJr whh his journey, might cast ; work of 500 pages the date of its
ing living How mournfully, if they
tuight reach bioi there, must these
bound l laughter excited by his
'wn ungodly wit strike bim, amidst
(he unutterable thin of eternity.
Love of literary faoie is the passion
of ihe age. Toe world is full ofwri
tm, ino many of wNo-n are less anx
ioo fohe uioial -eudency of produ
tioo thiia fo" ii-ir rect-ptiou with
the rHVfiinitit hotilii. Hit t lt ati.ii ivri
lPf---- or fowl.- Naji 1 have known a eon jVenly, l-e had Ins reward.' But
- .. iKu l.i,i.l k jriiii.. u
grs mail, oiiu iuhi ip" i j . i hp n
thousand topics, and divcustiug fi'ns
quouog in a single apeceh all ihe au
thors he had ever seei., sacred or pro
faue, nil ht raned a question whelh
crhe ivere in his wits, or out. ...I.
With a viewi'o pFvi ntthm habit
" Qf merely )asSirrTendu g, in i,y own
fmilv. 1 have la elv adopted t .e fid
Iqwiu plan- We have a iaige blank
book, in a convenient place for writ
ing, which we call the Family lleper-
FaCb memoer. woeuever ne
tory
who vuuld dare to he the inluT tor
of Byr.n. fame, if al mg with it he
mum take upon him Byroirs respon
8iti'ities. Cow per had an almost painful
sense of his accuunrability for every
word lie wrote Au auth.H," In
remarked to his friend, "had ueed
narr- wiy to watch his pen. Iet a line
sh u(d t-scape it which by possibility
may do mischief, when he has long
been dead and buried What we
have written in a book, wi l never- be
meets with any thing, iti Ins reading Ikuowu till tho day of judgment: then
which strikes him a. inier'sting or the account will be liquidated, and
important, is expected to write down all the good that it has occasioned,
the passage in this book, with his re- and all the evi, will witness either
flections upon it; or, if he please, his for or agaiost us." II.
thout the i)a8a?e. Our
jruvv .... ,
friends who vni us are usually desir
ed to d the same. The twn young
est f the family (whoieagen are nine
a?.'l -lev mi) are allowed to transcribe,
vrihnut eouiment,' such passages, in
tr,e and poetry, as strike 'heir fan-
. i.. . i .. i.. ....i
cy. provide" mey ur um n" i"" m
fttke too mucn imhv m
n Ha not take too
which means their judgm ot. i exer
a M ..ftfttft1ftlar iM allf Dfl H A ft .
ciT ann n.,opp'Miu.M.T .c;..Cm fong ot a (,nrent aspect,
to r-irrect and improve their taste. meMeai: famer is ireneratK
V A to method we begin on
Bfank, writ" where
nuttine the number
the fir
RURAL TASTE,
In reading the books of our trav
ellers in Knglaud, nothing delights
me more than their descriptions of
ao Eiglih callage. Similar speci
mens it is true, are lo be met with in
our own country: they are many, and
multiplying, it is hoped, yet there is
much reason to regret thai they hear
snsmdl a oropTtiou to the habita-
n A
inure in
and
9
iiftt h writes in an irregular ioex
at the end.
Besides the advantage already
mentipned,-rt at thn plan promote
thinking it may he added that think
ing promote conversation, and con
vetsation makes each ooe's knowl
edge common property. We elicit
too,some of the bet though's of oil
friend who thus leave behind then
something to remind us of their visit,
and renew ihe pleasure which we de
rived from their snity,-
In the famous Club which Frnk
-Ha formed at Philadelphia, in -1727.
the first of a long string of questions
which were put to each member a
each meeting, was, ("Whether he
hud met with any tiling in the uuthor
he last read remafkable or suitable'-
-he communicated to the junto?"
-Xyfifitfayi
ly be as useful to each other in thic
way a the members of a junto?
Having said thirrnmuch abont my i
ten: acmirn? In ml. t tan ileairoiiH
, , -..j. -7. - - - -
fJ2Mj Wt$ iibJLIv ha t, he a I raady pps
" 'J t . ".fsesses. Iie hm b ndJing field and
bis eye wistfully towards it, and fain1 publication being torn out, I send you
make it bis lodging-place for the -atiextract, descriptive uf a good horse,
night. (The title of the book is "Directions
Let the sons and daughters of a for hunting and killing all manner
family join ihoir hand? thus to adorn of chase used in England, with tha
(heir paternal dwelling and they shall ' terms of art belonging thereunto, also,
find themselves, not less agreeably 1 a short account of some peculiar
than usefully employed. A blooming! beosts not usually hunted in bnglaud,
Eden shall rise un around them and i by Nicholas Cox."
repay their toil with its fragraneeaud
it beauty. And I ennnot help re
would Hpend a portion of their leis
tire Imurs in these employments,. how;
soon and how easily would a charm
he npread - over our whole country,
ti e charm of groves and wa ers, of
green foliige and greener herbage,
tilliog the mind of the beholder with
neimtions. how did'ereul from the cf
feet 'of that harreti aspect which now
too often meets the eye. Maria.
Uy a guest.
LUTH KUS CELL.
The people of Glasgow have hoilt
a tall monumeot ip ho or uf John
Knox More impressive to my mind
the manner in which the memory
of Luther is preserved at Krfulb.
In Bussel's tour in Germany, 1 find
the fo lowing notice of his cell.
"The Augustine monastery, in
which the young Luther first put on
cowl of the hierarchy which he was
to shake to its foundations, and strove
to lull with his flute the. impatient
longings ot a spirit thai was to set
tiurope in flames, has been converted
tn the purposes of an orphan asylum;
but the cell of the Reformer has been
religiously preserved, as the earliest
memorial of the greatest man of mo
dern times. Th gallery on which it
onens. is adorned with a Dance of
5
Death, and over the door is the in-
fa. :
1 am, &c.
T. K. W
he isai6ed; ffive hi the prmleee
9 -J
of-catliiicr ih ! his -own, tl be ts
content t p y taxe on some hundreds
of Irtan aeres, which yield him no
pMi'..
I regard the man who surrounds
?s dw lling wfh "bj el of rural
ta4tr oi who even plants a single
had--iree liy the road-s-de a pub
dc benefactor; ot uie;el becnue he
9dt mtlhing to the gt eal beauty
of (he country, and to the pleasure of
thoHrf who travel through t, but be
cause, atso. ue cout r iiutes something
'o the refinement of the general mind:
hjmp fovea the taste,, especially of
...h itwn family and neighbourhood.
There is a power in scenes of rural
iieaoty, to affect our social and moral
feelings. A fondness for these scenes
issrldnoi found with coarseness of
Cellula, divino mafjnoqtie habit ata Luthero,
- Salve, vix Unto ceUuIa dtgnb nro i "
Dignuserat qui regum spiendida tectasub
iret, Tp dedignatus non tamen ille fuit
The cell is small and . simple, and
"His head ought to bo lean,, large, 1
1.1. -J1-- j--'tl w!-lJ .!. , r
ins tars suian, ami pricneu, oru ruey
be somewhat long; provided they
stand upright like lhosn of a fox, it it
usually a sign of mettle and tough
ness. His forehead long and b'nad,
ot flat, and as we term it marefuced,
but rising in the midst like that of a
hare, ihe feather being placed above
the top of his eye, the contrary being
thought by ome to betoken blindness.
His nostrils wide, and red within, for
an open nostril betoken a good wiod;
his mouth (urge deep in the wVkes
hairy; bis (hropple, weasand or wind
pipe big, loose and straight, when ho
is reined in by the bridle; for if when
he bridles, it bends in like a how
(which is called cock throppled) it
very mu h hinders the passage of hit
wind His bead must be set on to his
neck, that there munt be a spaee feit
between his neck and bis chaufj fbr
to be bull-necked is uncomely to sight
ann prejudicial to the hone's wind.
His crest should he firm, th n and
well nsen; hisnrek long and straight,
yet not loose and pliant, which the
Northern men term withv ciagged;
his breast strong and broad bis chest
deep, his chine hurt- his body large,
ami close snutup to tne buckle bone:
h
lis ribs round like a barrel, his hllr
being hid within them; his fillets ' .
nroau, uemg wen let down I o ihgat
coina; his tn'amhrdttuprlgaT,- and 77
not bending, which is called by mme
sickle housrhed. though mm knIH "
1 tl j wvwivwiw. -mm
a ?-J.ogwnei.iaod ...peed41IHi ,
legs clean flat and falgh: his Mntg
short, well knit, and upright epecl-I '
any oejwixi me pasterns, and the
' The reader probably knows, that
such a Dance of Death is a series of hoofs, having but little hair on his
paintings, representing Death leading! fetlocks: his hoofs black, sttong and
oO'ko thebther world all rauks of men, hollow, and ratherloug and narrow
from the monarch to the beggar and than big aud flat, and lastly his mano
of all professions, and characters, and tail should be long, and tbio, ra
priests and coquettes, -soldiers- and titer than thick, which is eounted by
philosophers.' musicians and doctors. ome a mark of dull ess v On tho
&e. &e. They were generally paint-1 subject of colour he says "I dare pstf
ed, either in church yardrpaf in themy word, that wherever., you hali.
cemetery of Newstadt, in Dresden, meet with an hone that ha'h uo
to teach the general doctrine of bu-white boot him, especially in hit
man mortality, or in churches and forehead tln ugh he be otherwite of
convents, to commemorate the rava- the best reputed col urs. as bay,
entitnint. atnl. rudenesi.ofaunersJgl-J orie . hath ti
espe-
J)ne ra y judge,,, with confidence, of
'he tast' and intelJfsnce of,a family
jy the external air of,. their dwelling.
In my excursion in.iho country, ifl
Kind was the celebrated uance ot (logged ai
Death at Basle, painted on the occas tially if In
jujlrn disposition
hve n small sunk
ion of the plague which raged'while and a' narrow ifiifie. with a noie1eadf
l h e c o u n c i I wa i t ittib g7
litig liko a bankibil!';
J.
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