/ 



258 PROVF.REIAI. PHILOSOPHY. 



College reason to be grateful for the position she occupies — the good 

 she has accomplished ? The little seed, which was sown only a few 

 years since, has already taken root and is yielding fruit. Judging from 

 the success that has attended her past career, is not Pennsylvania Col- 

 lege destined to become pre-eminently useful ? If the smiles of Heaven 

 continue to rest upon her, may not still greater results be expected than 

 have already been accomplished ? 



The destiny of our beloved Republic — all that is valuable in liberty, 

 all that is precious in our institutions is soon to be entrusted to those 

 who are now in a course of training in our seminaries of learning. If 

 we wisli the rich inheritance we enjoy transmitted, unimpaired to pos- 

 terity, should not the public eye be directed with anxious solicitude to 

 the youth of the nation ? May Pennsylvania College send out many, as 

 proofs of her excellence, who may. become an ornament to society, the 

 pride of their country, bright and shining lights in the Church, exercise 

 a conservative influence upon the land, and prove a blessing to the world; 

 sons of whom she may never have occasion to feel ashamed; to whose 

 names she may point in all coming time with affectionate exultation, ex- 

 claiming with the mother of the Gracchi : Tlicse arc my jewels ! In what- 

 ever department of life her Alumni may be called to serve their coun- 

 try, may they never forget the academic shades in which they were nur- 

 tured, or lose the conviction that they are held, by their early vows, to 

 connect the accomplishmenls of the scholar with the character of the 

 citizf!)!, the christian and the man. 



Proverbial PJiUosoj)hy. By FARauAiiAii Tupper, Esq, A.M. 

 The above is the title of a book, that comes before us with more 

 than usual pretension, and a careful perusal of it will satisfy the most 

 fastidious cavilcr, that it can scarcely be prized too highly. Such a col- 

 lection of good things, so well expressed, cannot be found between the 

 same quantity of pasteboard and muslin in any language. Tupper is a 

 perfect master of the heart. He reads man as we do books, and from 

 their actions and appearances makes his estimate of them. He knows 

 himself and can, on this account, paint others correctly. He possesses 

 the rare faculty of saying a trite thing in such a manner as to give it the 

 charm of novelty. He attracts our attention by the beauties of his style, 

 draws us gradually on by the smoothness of his periods, and chains our 

 senses by the splendid sentiments which he clothes in such beautiful 

 lanu^uao-p. No one can read his book witliout being made better. Ev- 

 ery one can see himself as in a glass; every pliase of character, every 



