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MISCELLANY. 



From the Nevi York Mirror. 

 LOVE A DELICATE PLOAVER. 



BT SOLVMAN KRDWN. 



Hfre 's a heallh lo llie girl ihal refuses 



To bnrler her heart for a name, 

 But marries llie man thai she chooses, 



How humble soever his fame ; 

 For love is a delicate flower 



That Glory may crush in his path, 

 Or the wildfire of Honor devour 



As it scorcheih the earlli with its wrath :— 

 Love and Friendship and all, 

 Love and Friendship and all, 

 ' Fame in his folly may trample 



On Love, Friendship, and all. 

 Here 's a health to the girl that disdains it. 



When Mammon would purchase with gold, 

 That never can touch but i( slams it. 

 The heart that can never be sold ; 

 For love is a delicate flower. 



That Lucre pollutes by his touch, • 

 It withers and fades from Ihe bower. 

 If pampered by fortune loo much — 

 Love and Friendship and all. 

 Love and Friendship and all. 

 Wealth in his splendor may trample 

 On Love, Frieudship, and all. 

 Here 's a peace to the girl that despises 



The gewgaws of fortune and birth. 

 And love to the maiden that prizes 

 The jewels of honor and worth; 

 May health and contentment attend her, 



And earth all its blessings imparl— 

 May heaven in all its kindness befriend her. 

 And dwell in its temple— her hearl ; 

 Love and Friendship and all, 

 Love and Friendship and all, 

 Heaven in its brightness is open 

 To Love, Friendship, and all. 



HOPE. 



There is no happiness wliich hope cannot pro- 



n,ige no difficulty which it cannot stinnount,- 



no grief which it cannot mitigate. It is the wealt 

 of the indigent, the healtli of the sick, tlie freedom 

 of the captive. As soon as we have learned what 

 is agreeahle, it delights us with the prospect of at- 

 taining it ; as soon as we have lost it, it delights 

 us with the prospect of its return. It is our flat- 

 terer and comforter in youth ; it is our flatterer 

 and comforter in years which need still more to 

 be flattered and comforted. What it promises, in- 

 deed, is different in these different years ; but the 

 kindness and irresistible persuasion with which it 

 makes the promise are still the same ; and while 

 we laugh in advanced age, at the easy confidence 

 of our youth in wishes which seem incapable of 

 deceiving us now, we arc still, as to other objects 

 of desire, the same credulous, confiding beings, 

 whom it was then so easy to make happy. Nor is 

 it only over teiieslrial things that it diffuses its de- 

 lightful radi^mce : the power which attends us 

 with consolation, and with more than consolation, 

 tlirough the an.xioties and labors of our life, docs 

 not desert us at the close of that life which it has 

 blesseil or consoled. It is present with us in our 

 last moment. We look to scenes which are open- 

 ing on us above, and we look to those around us, 

 with an expectation still stronger than the strong- 

 est hope, that, in the world which we arc about 

 to enter, we shall not have only remembrances of 

 what we loved and revered on earth, but that the 

 friendships fioin which it is so painful to part, 

 even in parting to Heaven, will be restored to lis 

 there. — Broxon. 



IMAGINATIOIV. 



It is well known, from experience, that the ac- 

 tivity and consequent improvement of imagiiuition, 

 dciiend not a little upon the character of the ob- 

 jects with which it is first occupied. The great, 

 the sublime, the beautiful, the new, and the uncom- 

 mon, in external nature, are not only striking anil 

 agreeable in themselves, but by association these 

 finalities powerfully awaken the sensibilities of the 



inalilies ik 

 leart, and 



kindle tiie fires of youthful imagitnition. 

 If the student permit objects which are mean, low 

 or sensual, to usurp possession of his mind ; if the 

 books which he reads, and the studies that he pur- 

 sues, are contaminated with gross ideas, he has no 

 right to expect that this onmipotent fictilty shall 

 ever draw from the polluted treasures of his mem- 

 ory, any thing noble, useful or lu-aiseworthy ; or 

 that his name shall ever be enrolled among those 

 who have ileliglited, instructed, and honored their 

 native land and the world at large. 



By an excessive indulgence in the pleasures of 

 imagination, the taste may acquire a fastidious re 



OCTOBER 15, 1834. 



MATHEMATICS 



According to their proper definition, constitute 



the science of quantity, either as subject to nieas- 

 tire or number. They are pure and mixed. The 

 imre consider quantity abstracledly, vvillioiit any 

 regard to matter or particular bodies ; the mixed 

 treat of quantity as subsisting in bodies, and con- 

 sequently are inlcrmixed with the consideration of 

 physics or experimental philosophy. 



Mathematics are very properly recommended as 

 the best remedy to cure an unsteady and volatile 

 disposition. They teach us to reason in a clear 

 and methodical manner; give a manly vigor lo 

 our understanding, and free us from doubt and 

 nncerlainty on the one hand, and credulity and 

 rash presumption on the other. These studies are 

 calculated to teach exactness and perspicuity in 

 definition, connexion and conclusiveness in argu- 

 ment, carefulness in observation, patience in medi- 

 tation ; and from no exercises can the scbidar go 

 better prepared and disciplined to the imrsntt of 

 the higher branches of knowledge. The benefit 

 " ' ' - Mr. 



miagmaiiuil, luc kibic iimy n^.-j.....'' - - --n--- " . 



finement unsuitable to the present situation of hu-' to he derived from them is thus staled l.y 



man nature ; and those intellectual and moral 

 habits, which ought to be formed by actual expe- 

 rience of the world, may be gradually so accom- 

 modated to the dreams of poetry and romance, as 

 to disqualify us for the scenes in which we are 

 destined to act. But a well regidated imagination 

 is the great spring of human activity, and the prin- 

 cipal source of iitiman improvement. As it de- 

 lights in presenting to the mind scenes and char- 

 acters more perfect than those which we are 

 acquainted, it prevents us from ever being com- 

 pletely satisfied with our present condition or with 

 our past attainments, and engages us contiiuially 

 in the imrsuit of some untried enjoyment, or ot 

 some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and 

 the condition of man will become as stationary as 

 that of the brutes. — Lit. «,- Scientific Class Book. 



From the Literary and Scientific ClassBook. 

 MEMORY 

 — Implies two things : a capacity of retaining 

 knowledge, and a power of recalling that knowl- 

 edge to our thoughts when we have occasion to 



apply it to use Without memory the soul of 



man would be but a poor', destitute, naked being, 

 with an everlasting blank spread over it, excepting 

 the fleeting ideas of the present moment. 



There is one great and general direction, which 

 belongs to the improvement of the other powers as 

 well as of the memory, and that is, to keep it al- 

 ways in due and proper exercise. Many acts by 

 degrees form a habit, and thereby the cajiacity or 

 l)ovver is strengthened and made more retentive 

 and ready. Due attention and diligence to learn 

 and know the things which we would commit to 

 our remembrance, is a rule of great necessity. 

 There are some persons who complain that they 

 cannot remember what they hear, when in truth 

 their thoughts are wandering half the time, or they 

 hear with such coldness and indifference, and a 

 trifling temi)er of spirit, that it is no wonder tlie 

 things which are read or spoken make but a shglit 

 impression, and soon vanish and are lost. 



The proper remedy is, to set tlie mind to work, 

 and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business; 

 for it holds in the struggles of the mind as in those 

 of war, — a persuasion that we shall overcome any 

 difficulties that we may meet with in the scienci s, 

 seldom fails to carry us through them. Nobody 

 knows the strength of his mind, and the force of 

 steady and regular application, until he has tried. 



Locke : " 1 have mentioned mathematics as a wsiy 

 to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, 

 and in train ; not that 1 think it necessary that all 

 men should be deep mathematicians, but that hav- 

 ing got THE WAY OF REASONING tO wllicll that BtUlly 



necessaiily brings the mind, they may be able to 

 tranfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall 

 have occasion." — Elements of General Knowledge. 



TEMPERANCE ALMANAC FOR 1835. 



RUSSELL, ODIORNE, & CO, have just puldishcd the 

 Temperance Family Almanac for 1835. 



The Astronomical calculations are made by liie Editor of the 

 American Almanac, ll is also enriched by a vanety ol sla^- 

 menls suniresiions and anecdotes on Ihe greal subject ol tem- 

 perance. Although it has been published bul a tew weeks, 

 about 50.0a0 copies have already been publl^hed. 



trr At a meeting of the Council of the Massachn setts 

 T.^erance Society, Sep.. 20lh, 183t, the following Preamble 

 and Vote, were unainmously adopted. s;,„.;p,v 



The Council of the Massachuselts Temperance Sociey, 

 hav.ng examined the Tev.peraure J=^"''"'y "I '"''"''" ■,r!''±''S 

 in Botton. by Messrs. Russell. Odiorne, & Co. No. lo+ \\ a>h- 

 mston street, and Ford & Damrell, Wilson's l.ane. "ear St, te 

 Stieel, are of opinion that its extensive cuculation will be us( - 

 ful to the Temperance cause; therefore, 



Voted, That it be recommended to the several Cotni'y So- 

 cieties, to endeavor to procure its n.trnduction into all the tow s 

 o, their Counties, and '" ^^^^^^ I^.K^En!' iV^);]^;: 



.T. G. STEVENSON, Sec'nj. 



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