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Show TASsafrfis" vuott mi. cuav- Jsrd'wlmt. boundless life docs; cdilca-lion cdilca-lion admit us, and Ujd difeonrte.of tverj-Slay, and' tlie. drdinary'leissoiis oftlip worlill Tilt me,' h this life, to bo called merely a' lirfff '-aOd worthiejs fact; wlieh T)y a'fittle' t(ii7, Tor ihstnnee, 1 can J make "tlie experience of oilier men, and Iaurlj,' andiigfis .all liiineT ' Wbeu iitfdme! favored liour I can climb ,the starry, galftsy wfiyewtoii,, atid'pace hlortg tlie tejcstlal coast to the grcfll liarmouy of numbers, and unlock the mighty secret of the n.ni'vvrsf?; Wlteu' of ti winter's night X can. fiass'throughall tlie belts tf climate, and utl the gardens of civilization' on Our! globe; serin its motley races, learn' its) diverse customs, aud bear tlie groaning! of lonely Ice-flelds a'nd the sigft of Indian' palms? Wlicn with llacoif I explore the-laboratory the-laboratory of nature, or with Locke con- suit the mysteries of the eonl? When! Spencer can lead me into golden viMoiis,! or Shakspear smite me with magic iilspi-: ration, or Milton butlic mo lit immortal song? When history opens lor mo all the gatcaof the jiast Thcbca and Palmyra, Pal-myra, Corfntli uiid Carthage, Athens; with its prierlcss groryf jttid Rome with Its majestic pomp?, When kings ami statesine'n, authors' and priests with their public deeds, and Secret thoughts, nro mine? When (he plans of cabinets, and tlie debates of parliamen ts; and the course of revolutions, und ' the results of battle n'rc.nll.'bcforo' my eyes, and la my mind? When 1 can euter the inner chamber of sainttd )ub)oiitl consjifre with the; ef-forts ef-forts of moral heroes, and understand the sufTerings of warlyrsj Say, when all llieso deep experienccs-thesa omprt hcnslve trutUsmay be aapiired tlifouglt inertly one prtrllegei is life' but a drcnin ora breath of air? Tliu.i, too, do im lueasnrnble spcritnccs flow in to rim from nature from planet, flower and ocean. '4'lius, too, does more life come to rati from contacts in the common round! of jietioa. And I repeat, every truth;! thus gained expands a moment of time! into IlUmilnblo being positively enlarges, my existence, aud endows me- "with- a, quality which time- cannot weaken or dcitroy. Books? the chosen depositories of tho thoughts, (ho opinions,-and tho aspire tions of mighty intellects; like 'wondrous mirrors that have caught nnd fixed bright images of sonls" that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bt--qucatli'cd'them to tho world, and whicli yet, Of themselves, ring with unforgotten musie wblle tho hands that touched their chords have crumbled Into dust'. Ubol;sl they are tho embodiments anil manifestation? manifes-tation? of departed .mindsthe living or-gdun or-gdun through whieli those who nro dead yet dpeak to us, Hooks! they are tho giir.ners in which are .stored tho wisdom bought liy toll and' study tho gorgeous dream? of the x-'t, th? maxims of the philosopher, the skilful delineations pT tliq true Observer, the iiislories of mighty dectLv the wonders of distant lands, the records jJ precious fuel :thb messenger whicli the wW nud the good send to us, iryy i y),.'; v'' ' 1 laibin-irltU treasures: for. cVcry.f'mcrttol Wttnt.'and.precepts'fonevcrrdoty;, ; ' Xlie; larger") :he;' nature, thd targcr 'tliii' lover;L!ttttf, mean mtttirca ara unclad?; table;naturcSj, ITiiijmnuhnt nhvay? has u:bopclessVMaSttdfneeri forr his, fellow' tnenwho s':1'n?pcrt')etual ;fear 4uat' "hoi will.o "chcttt't'd'- liy. tlicm" -look out for' j-that 'mafC f Uut'Slimmirt that - fbopca or trbswthougU.hoWtte's'the'ovil'' keenly than.he tlio 'to'arrwho sceV iomcW thing imoro bright, tfian-sln-f-wha ecea light sliluing around aIltlidrt)manTias a, tioblfenaturo-i-o larger-and more, persis-tcnt persis-tcnt lore. . .-How many look upon' oPrebytcria Joi'Ayt J n.mau who is-aUblue-nro and bittcrness.'andjwlm looks upon tho' world artdihominlty at lrg jast . f Jonathan EdwarUs.didl. Andloa tho, other hand, ;how. many pconla think' thai a Unlrersslf ; i(.t j belieires ; that, 'Itvc any . ,way . 'yo'tf , please, yoa'lt laud , in glory the ' momedt joiiidiel'! iMow, is it not a shame Indeed that oiie should not know ''better what' the; other believes? ; .. Xliiid in one of our papers a grievous Complaint bieansesome rum-seller has set up a portrait of Washington in his' bit room; and it is catted a' desecration. So it maylbe;'but is there Hot a greater desecration dese-cration there?-' Is there; not- a desecra-tion'of desecra-tion'of tlieimago opOod Set np among those rum-casks and liquor-barrels?' The" Image of tfod there- becomes' degraded, pollutedi and castdbwn, :t A peevrsh scrisilivcnels (o' thc'saylngs and doings of others indieatcs real poverty ofioul-'orx miserable- tlmldityiior "elso'a spirit wbicb is mastered W the body; and lies at" the mcroyof disease and"Ja!ia'lluif nerves. i- -, - . ' P There arijlnterests by tho .sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchascdrGne; ; should icvcr V aUece.tb,the,shama of hiioivn sonl to the v)oIatiou of his mteg-irityof mteg-irityof or his allegiance to Coil. 1 There Is less"-mlserytn being cheated than,ia that klud. of wisdom Which it ya- eelves, of thinks it perceives that all mankind arc cheats, j TlicrO istiften a wAy pr warring with" tlie wronfe which is as uneonsecratcd and as bad as the wrong Itself, Is there anything so,vvretcbed to look at as n man of fiuo abilities dofni? no thing? ' - |