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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



VOK THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



HEALTH AND INDUSTRY. 

 Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven 

 When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? 

 How tasteless then whatever can be given ! 

 Health is the vital principle of bliss, 

 And exercise of health ! In proof of this, 

 Behold the wretch, who slugs his life away, 

 Soon swallow'd in disease's dark abyss; 

 While he whom toil has brac'd, or manly play. 

 Has light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day 



O who can speak the vigorous joys of health ? 

 Unclogg'd the body, unobscur'd the mind ; 

 The morning rises gay ; with pleasing stealth. 

 The temperate evening falls serene and kmd. 

 In health the wiser brutes true gladness, find ; 

 See ! how the younglings fiisk along the meads, 

 As May comes on, and wakes the balmy wind ; 

 Rampant with life, tlieir joy all joy exceeds ? 

 Yet what but high strung health this dancing plea- 

 saunce breeds ? 



tt was not by vile loitering in ease 

 That Greece obtaiu'd the brightest palm of art, 

 That soft yet ardent Athens learnt to please, 

 To point the wit, and to sublime the heart ! 

 In all supreme I complete in every part ! 

 It was not thence majestic Rome arose, 

 And o'ef the nations shook her conquering dart, 

 For sluggard's brow the laurel never grows ! 

 Renown is not the child of indolent repose. 



Had listless mortals paid regard to nought 

 But in loose joy their time to wear away ; 

 Had they alone the lap of dalliance sought, 

 Pleas'd on her pillow their dull heads to lay. 

 Rude nature's state had been our state to day ; 

 No cities e'er their towery fronts had rais'd, 

 No arts had made us opulent and gay ; 

 With brother brutes, the human race had grazed. 

 None e'er had soared to fame, none honor'd been, none 

 praised. 



MISCELLANY. 



SPANISH INQUISITION. 

 This horrid tribunal was first instituted by 

 Pope Innocent 111, about the year I'iOO.— Its lirst 

 efforts were directed against the All)i;enses m 

 Ihe south of France ; and in no long lime it found 

 its way into almost every country in Europe 

 (Great Britain excepted,) where popery was 

 the dominant religion. The most active and 

 celebrated of these tribunals was the Sfanisti 

 Inqlisition, which by an unaccountable perver- 

 sion of language has been termed the Holy Office. 

 It was first introduced into Spain about the year 

 1231, and was sutficicnlly active and intolerant 

 in that country until 1481, when Ferdinand V, 

 and Pope Sixlus IV, established what is called 

 the modern Inquisition, under the direction of In- 

 quisitors General, with a host of subordinate 

 officers. The history of this detestable court, 

 has been written by various authors ; but the 

 most authentic, is that of the late M. Florente, 

 in four thick octavo volumes dru-wn from the ur- 

 chicTies of the Inqnisilion., of Ti-hichhe had been Sec- 

 TtiaTij. This work has very recently been abridg- 

 ed by M. Gallois, from whom we have trans- 

 lated the following general totals of the number 

 of the victims of the Inquisilion in Spain, under 



45 Inquisitors General, between the years 1481 

 and 1820. 



Burnt alive J4,658 



Burnt in effigy 18,019 



Condemned to the gallows or impris- 

 onment 288,214 

 The sum total, therefore, of the victims of 

 the Inquisition in Spain, between 1481 and 

 1820, amounts to three hundred and forty thou- 

 sand eight hundred and ninety-one exclusive of a 

 considerable number of persons who have been 

 imprisoned, condemned to the gallies, or exil- 

 ed from Spain, under the reign of Ferdinand 

 Vll, the present imbecile sovereign of that un- 

 happy country. What cruelties may not be ex- 

 pected, should despotism ultimately be re-es- 

 tablished there ? For it should never be forgot- 

 ten, that tortures of the most horrid kind form a 

 part of the regular system of the Holy Office. 

 If to the condemnations which have taken 

 place in the peninsula, during the period above 

 noticed, we add those of other countries sub- 

 ject to the Spanish Inquisition, as Sicily, Sardi- 

 nia, Flanders, the Canary Islands, South Ameri- 

 ca, the Indies, the number of victims condemn- 

 ed by this tribunal would be truly appalling.— 

 Not only has the Inquisition decimated the 

 population of Spain by its autos-du-fe (or acts of 

 faith,) but it has also considerably reduced that 

 "population by the civil wars and commotions 

 which it has provoked, and especially by pro- 

 curing the expulsion of the Jews and Moors 

 from that country. More than five millions of 

 inhabitants have disappeared from Spain since 

 the Holy Office has exercised its terrible minis- 

 try. Verily, " the tender mercies of the wick- 

 ed are CRUEL !" = 



Qualificutions for Congress.— -"-^hy do you not 

 present yourself as a candidate for Congress ? " 

 said a lady the other day to her husband, who 

 wa= confined to his chair by the gout, "Why 

 should 1, my dear?" replied he ; " 1 am not 

 qualified for the station." "Nay, but 1 think 

 you are," returned the wife ; " your language 

 and actions are truly parliamentary." When 

 hills are presented, for instance, you either or- 

 der them to be laid on the table, or you make 

 a motion to rise ; though often out of order, you 

 are still supported by the chair ; and you often 

 poke your nose into measures which are calcu- 

 [ lated to destroy the constitution ? 



muneration. Assistance should you need it, 

 not be withheld, if it is known that your car 

 personal expenses is correct. — 



» * * Do not esteem the name of Ec< 

 my a trifle. Do not account the practice c 

 mean. Generous, free, call it what you will, 

 terms which do not apply, unless it is liter 

 and truly your own money which you are spi 

 ing ; nor then if you sport more than your r| 51 

 and circumstances prudently warrant. — Tayl 



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War costs more than it comes to. — Archbisj 

 Fenelon, when most in favour with Louis 

 Fourteenth, used to say, " I would rather ^^^ 

 the King lose half his dominions, than occas j,, 

 a battle in which the lives of many citia - 

 would be thrown away." 



Manners make the Man. — Good manners 111 

 often made the fortune of many who have nt 

 ino- else to recommend them : III manners hi 

 jas^often marred the hopesof those who hade 

 ry thing else to recommend them. 



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The old adage that " the eye- is often bigger 

 than the belly" is verified by the ridiculous va- 

 nity of those who wish to make an appearance 

 above their fbrtune— nothing can be more ruin- 

 ous of real comfort than the too common custom 

 of setting out a table, with a parade and a pro- 

 fusion, unsuiled not only to the circumstances 

 of the Host, but to the number of the guests;— 

 or more fatal to true hospitality than the multi- 

 plicity of dishes which luxury has made fashion- 

 able at the table of the great, the wealthy— and 

 the ostentatious, — who are often neither great 

 nor wealthy. 



Economy— A useful hint to young men. — tor 

 your own comfort," for your friends' solace, for 

 the sake of your eventual prosperity, cultivate a 

 strict and manly habit of Economy. It is impos- 

 sible to raise a good character without it. And 

 this one single article, connected with a mode- 

 rate talent, will recommend you to all with 

 whom you are to have any transaction from 

 whom you may obtain confidence, or expect re- 



Act for and speak of every body as if tl 

 were present and you will have nothing to'' 

 prebend from the tale bearer. 



Golden Rules for Men of Business. — Do e 

 thing at the proper time. Keep every thii 

 its proper place. Use every thing fnr its _ 

 per purpose. Never think any part of your 

 siness too trifling to be well done. 



A foolish fellow, when addressed by a maij 

 rank, used to answer, 'thank God and yi i 

 lordship.' — ' How many children have you i 

 nest man ?' said a Grandee to him : ' Four th» ] 

 God and your lordship.' 



Poverty. — Resolve not to be poor: whaler 

 you have spend less. Poverty is a great cnei 

 to human happiness; it certainly destroys libi 

 ty, and makes some virtues impracticable, » 

 others extremely difficult. 



A " high flown'''' Writer. — It was well said Oi 

 certain learned but obscure Author that his pi 

 ductions were 



" Like stars, when of too great a height 

 " They give us neither heat nor light." 



We are informed that, a few days since. Mi 

 ly Miles, a colored woman, one hundred ai 

 four years of age walked to Kennebunk, a i 

 tance of about 30 miles ! — Portstnouth, A. H.\ 



Generating Steam.— A plan " for applying Eli 

 tricity. Galvanism, or burning glasses, to the! 

 neration of Steam," has been announced bj 

 Mr. Slack, in the Rhode Island American. 1 

 thinks burning glasses would be a cheap n 

 tor Farmers to do their boiling and cookii 

 and says that the expense of the appara 

 would be comparatively trifling. 



TERMS^«" THE FARMER. 



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