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New ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 9, 1826. 



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[SEI/ECTED FOR THE FARMER.] 



Poetry, far from injuring- society, is one of the 

 great instruments of its refinement and exaltation. 

 It lifts the mind above ordinary life, gives it a res- 

 pite from depressing cares, and awakens the con- 

 sciousness of its affinity with what is pure and no- 

 ble. In its legitimate and highest eftbrts, it has 

 the same tendency and aim with Cliristianity ; that 

 is, to spiritualiiLe our nature. True ; poetry has 

 been made the instrument of vice, tlie pander of 

 bad passions ; but when genius tlius stoops, it 

 dims its fires, and parts with much of its power ; 

 and even when poetry is enslaved to licentious- 

 ness or misanthropy, she cannot wholly forget her 

 true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of 

 tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympa- 

 thies with what is good in our nature, bursts of 

 scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the 

 world, passages true to our moral nature, often es- 

 cape in an i;nmoral work, and sliow us how hard 

 it is for a gitt?d spirit to divorce itself wholly from 

 what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance v.'ith 

 our best affections. It delights in the beauty and 

 sublimity of outward nature and of tlie soul. It 

 indeed portrays with terrible energy, the excesses 

 of tlie passions ; but they are passions which show 

 a mighty nature, whlffh are full of power, which 

 command awe, and excite a deep though shudder- 

 ing sympathy. Its great tendency and purpose is, 

 to carry the mind Ijeyond and above the beaten, 

 dusty, weary walks of ordinary life ; — to put it into 

 a purer element, and to breathe into it move pro- 

 found and generous emotion. It reveals to us the 

 loveliness of nature, brings back the freslniess of 

 youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleas- 

 ures, keeps unnuenched the enthusiasm which 

 warmed tlie springtime of our being, refines youth- 

 ful love, strengthens our interest in human nature 

 by vivid delineations of its tcndercst and loftiest 

 feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes 

 of society, knits us by new ties with univer.s%l 

 being, and through the brightness of its prophetic 

 visions helps faith to lay hold on the future of life. 



Rtv. Dr Channiiip;. 



Poverty. — The poor man is like the criminal in 

 the eyes of the world, but with this exception a- 

 gainst him, — that he hath few friends and the crim- 

 inal hath many. Let a man be guilty of any atro- 

 cious crime and he shall go out into the world and 

 find forgetfulness if not forgiveness. But the poor 

 will no man forgive, nay, although he rise early, 

 and labour hard, and eat his bread with care. He 

 drinketh alone at the alehouse, and no one biddeth 

 him Godspeed in the market-place. For the rest, 

 all other sins shall be forgiven a man on earth, but 

 this shall not, for it is a sin against tlic spirit of the 

 world. — Lord Bacon. 



Jldam's first slap — 



lie laid him down to sleep, and from his side 

 And woman in her magic beauty rose — 

 Dazzled and charmed, he called that woman fcrjrfc, 

 And his first sleep became his last repose. 



Worship. — To be of no church is dangerous. — 

 Religion, of which tlie rewards are distant, and 

 which is animated only by faith and hope, will 

 glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be in- 

 vigorated and re-impressed by stated calls to wor- 

 ship and the salutary influence of example. — Dr 

 Johnson.. 



Conversation. — Tlie conversation of mer. wlio 

 have acquired a well deserved celebrity is more 

 instructive than tlieir works. Wo derive from them 

 an acquaintance with a variety of rules in judge- 

 ment snd in taste, and with a multitude of observ- 

 ations and shades which it would be very difficult 

 to lay down in writing. — Count Segur. ^ 



* 



Oil l/ii Sf.rinn of a Country Church — 

 Come let us rejoice, merry boys, at his fall, 

 for c-2^ad had he lived lie had buried us all. 



Jin Inference. — A servant, having lived many 

 years with a clergyman, his master took occasion 

 to say — " John, you have been a long time in my 

 service ; I dare say you will be able to preach a 

 sermon as well as I." — " Oh, no, sir," said John, 

 "but many an inference I have drawn from yours." 

 " Well," said the clergyman, " I will give you a 

 text out of Job — let me hear what you infer from 



it — And the asses snuffed up the East wind." 



"Well," replied John, "the only inference I can 

 draw from this is, that it would be a long time be- 

 fore they would grow fat upon it." 



A Yankee apothecary, at New Orleans, is said to 

 have made a fine speculation by buying sick slaves 

 and curing them. 



A grand exptiision. — To answer a double purpose of 

 celebrating the next anniversary of our Independence, 

 and making improvements, some of the citizens of Uls- 

 ter county, N. Y. intend to charge a large rock with 

 two thousand pounds of gunpowder, and it is expected 

 that the report of the explosion will be heard over a 

 greater part of the New England Slates. 



From a commuDicalion recently laid before the House 

 of llepresentative?, it appears that the -whole number 

 of emigrants from foreign countries, males and femaies, 

 wlio arrived in the U. S. in one year was 12,361. The 

 natural increase of the population of the U. S. is 3G0,O00 

 every year. We are therefore, indebted to foreign na- 

 tions for only oBe thirtieth part of our whole increase. 



fiensibility. — He who weeps at the aspect of mis- 

 fortune at the recital of a beautiful action, proves 

 tliat he wishes to relieve the one and that he is ca- 

 pable ortthe other. Sensibility, sometimes the 

 mother of weakness, is more frequently the parent 

 of our most amiable virtues. — Florian. 



Popular Excitement. — We appear astonisliod 

 when wc see the multitude led away by sounds ; 

 hut we should remember that if sounds work mira- 

 cles, it is always upon ignorance. The influence 

 of names is in exact proportion to the want of 

 knowledge. — Pah-y. 



Misfortune is like thp Elack i\Iounfains of Ben- 

 der at tlie extremity of the burning kingdom of 

 ].,ahor. Vrhen you begin to climb it, you see before 

 you nothing but rugged and sterile rocks : but 

 wiien you reach its top, n serene heaven is over 

 your head and at your feet tlie beautiful kingdom 

 of Cashmere. — St Pii rre. 



Marriage is a desperate thing : The frogs in 

 vEsop were extremely wise ; they had a mind for 

 some water, but they would not leap into the well, 

 because they could not get out again Selden. 



f'/.f/.'-fn ler of the .Middle .'Iges. — Tlie limes of feu- 

 dal jiower were very different from the present. — 

 There was then more violence and generosity ; 

 life was less secure, and it was more richly illus- 

 trated ; fem-ile honor was oftener violai^ed and it 

 was more desperately defended. Desperate wrongs 

 were committed through greed, and desperate en- 

 terprises were undertaken in magnanimous disin- 

 terestedness ; the liglits of the picture were bright- 

 er and its shades were darker tlian now. The 

 v.-orld had then bolder features, — it wore a sterner 

 and more imposing aspect, — and the poets found 

 themselves in their elements amidst daily events : 

 Then shone not the sun of the age of gold, 

 Gladdening the rivers that calmly rolUil, 

 While love had no fear and beauty no sigh, 

 And the wish and j'oy were for ever nigh, 

 V\'hen the mind free from c^re as the hands from toil, 

 Lay shrunk and still as the snake in its coil. 

 'Twas the hurricane cloud and the lightning gleam 

 Dnrkoning and kiiidliug the torrent stream ; 

 And the howl of the woods when the wind is high, 

 And the terror of birds at the eagle's cry. 

 And the groan of the heart by misery stricken. 

 And the spring of the soul when dangers thicken, 

 And lady's love, which to speak is fate, 

 And a glance of the eye telling deadly hate. 

 Then pride and power and woe and alarm 

 Hung ovor the earth like a thunder storm. 

 Grand to behold, though with peril fraught. 

 Arousing zeal and summoning thought. 



Gi/mnaslic exercises. — The faculty of Harvard Uni- 

 versity have introduced the gymnastic exercises a» 

 mongst the students. From a long account -we can 

 make but a single extract : 



" Although the system has been in opi-ration hut a 

 few weeks, many of the students have derived great 

 benefit from it ; some, whose health has been impaired, 

 have experienced much relief, while others express a 

 sen-re of great increase of bodily strength and corres- 

 ponding ability for mental exertion. 



" The machines which have been coTiftrucfed, are 

 the parallel bars, upon which a great varii ly of exer- 

 cises are performed, most of which are pr; paratovy to 

 the more difficult exercises : jumping stands, poles.ic. 

 vaulting bars, balancing bars, climbing stands, poles 

 and ropes; machines for stengthening Ihe muscles of 

 the arms and legs ; for acquiring the powr-r of sup- 

 porting the weight of the body in various positions, kc. 



LINCOLN FEAKlNG&Co. at No 1 10 State-street, 

 have for sale, all sizes of Lead Pipe (rem ^ to i inches, 

 warranted equal to any imported or manufactured ill 

 this country — Contracts for any quantity made and 

 furnished at short notice. April 14, 8t. 



PATENT HOLS.— J. & A. Fate's Patent Hoes con- 

 stantly for sale by French & Weld, 31 k 3-i South 

 Market St., and French &; Davenport 713 Wasliington 

 Street, -n'ho are appointed sole agents for vending the 

 ''aine. eptf. Boston, April 28, IS','6. 



iiOJI/.-JA". An elegant, full blooded horse, a bright 



i Bay, with black legs, mane and tail, ol higli spirit .and 



! good temper, will stand at the farm of .Mr Stephen V\ il- 



liams in Northborough, (Ms.) at $20 the season, to be 



paid before the mares are taken away. — Sec .New Eii"-- 



land Farmer, April 14. * 



SIR IS^IAC. This fine young seed horse of the 

 Cleaveland Hay Breed, will stand at his stable, oppo- 

 site the Bull's Head Tavern in Brighton. The charge 

 for each innre will be ten dollars the season, in ad- 

 vance. \ more particular aS|tount of Sir Isaac will be 

 found in the New England Farmer of the 3Jst of .March. 



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