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rin:i)siin-.s orrrnixc. Written in the commonplace look of a young j male friend. Smooth be thy path, AnCntn ! in this brief, Uncertain, mul probationary life; Fair be the sky above thee, li.lv yonn. And calm the ocean cf events ;as smooth, An.l fv!r, and calm, be all, a Trmpc's vale The sunny- sky of Italy the sea That Kves the honrnii of distant Oregon, Pacific call.!. The f"r aa virtuous If born to fortune, or if rcelinir hard With poverty am! it conconiit it.t, Have hoU on my atfections. I xvould such Alight never k'lnw ti:eil:s of hmuati life, That weich the buoyant spirit to theeaith Tale the bright brotv of Deanty teal the roe From the Irish chetk of Health ami tint the t,. . ri,re" Ilir.h whiteness of the lily, with the !m, The sickly siCron, tint i'-isease impart. But chief to thee, Ans;uta '. now I n eak. These ills, and death, the C'hastener's weapons are: So live, that they may lichtly fall on thre Thy beauty cultivate, but more thy heart ; Thy intellect, but thy a (lections more: Think of thvse'f, and" r.f the friends thou Wst, But oft enerof thv Oud. tToninmne with Him, In fecretif it please, but still commune; And chief when on thy pilhiw laid at ni;h, lire, slumbers come upon thee, then commune. Thus havins; lived, V.ion sl.alt he ca"ej at last. To worship with the cherubim above, And seraphim, round the Internal's Throne; To tread the str-cmbosed paths of I leaven ; To inhabit the pavilions of the Blest; To sport eternally, and uneonfined, In the eret r. pastures of the Spirit Land. Western. Jlrsse ngt r. w. r. . BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. fihst E.xtJLisri eiitio-j or the On lhe last page of the first edition of the KngHs!) Bit!e is the follow ing imprint: "Prvnfed 'm the yearo of our Lord, MDXXX V. and fvnished the fourlli day otf October." The Uible was Miles Cover dale's version, which was dedicated to Henry VJU. and allowed by royal authority. Coverdale mentions that the tilis translation to some of the Bishops fr their perusal, who alleged that t here were faults therein, but admitted 1 Bat no heresies were maintained. Hi here be no heresie?,' said the King. Iet it go abroad among the people' It is not generally known, perhaps, that there is a copy of Miles Coverdale's Bible in the British Museum. It is a jsmall folio, printed in the black letter. rerted with this introduction: "The lokes and treatises which amonge the fathers of the oldc are not refened to be of like authorise with the other bokes rf the Bvble, nether arc they in canon cf the Hebrew.' Tiie volumes contains many curiou? engraving?. The frontispiece is very elaborate, flic upper part represent two tables of the law, surrounded with 3tames, among wnicn are seveiai irumre,? c. upposiieimsiiii;sicomm;;:;o.n.ig me aposiies ;o preaca iao g-pei, e.n.n . i . i . . i i . preaching on the tl ay ol i eiuerost. At

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Adam and Eve after eating lint forbid- ,'rst complete translation of the English len fruit; opposite this Christ is tread- Hihle appeared. It seems to have been ing on the serpent's head. Under these p, j(rti at Zurich. On the last page of js Mount Sinai with Moses receiving the : , rti,IOI1 0r,hft rp,'uh IViMe. is

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jnensc Key on ms suouiuer. n er a- prmti,;g at Paris. The attention of the 1 T 7, m,r : ii,.. ij. .,r;t r..ii.. Wl- I. ... sistance was rendered by lloman La

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lhe bottom is cxaanicu tne King, stir- sjstjng 0f 5,200 copies. The greater! rounded by his prelates and nobles, to part were burnc(j . fome COpie?, howevthe former cfwimm his majesty is pre- er, escaped, which had been sold to a

renting the sacied volume. 1 his no ,'oubt i intended as a compliment to . . ..i ilenry Mil, to whom the translation is dcdicntc!. 1 hesc vimieiics are comed. These vignettes are comvrised in a kind of frame work upon the narmn, the title appearing in the center. There h a"nro!oiruc to the Christian " J - - Tender," in which Coverdale confesses J.is "insufiicioncy to perform ye othce f .mrJ .innr,." but be was impelled 1o put the Bible into English, having ' , rnn.vilprP.l bow nreat in tie. it was 1hat we sl.ulde want it so longe; and lie says, "it grcved me yl other nacyons biil.te be iihii nl( i,t(r.iiil nrovvded j y or with ve Scrinturc in thV r mother tongue than we. I hereforc he thought . .... . y . it his dewtye to do his best, and that -with a good will." In many parts it is of course inferior to the subsequent translations: but the lact that it was,

faithfully and truly translated out of the Cross," which is noticed by Strype. It has given you an opportunity of re- How charming is this tradition! Douche and Latin into Englishe,' cou- was intended that he should suffer mar- alizing, instead of anticipatingthe bene- How it breathes the unaffected benev--oled with the condition of our language tvrdom. but he had beconie related by fits of the General Government, you olence of patriarchal morals! How

M that day, renders it a work worthy if all admiration, some passages have more simplicity and clearness tnan even in the translation in common use. t

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instance, '0!i that my wordes were wiitten; oh that tlicy were put in a boke; wolde God they were graven wt in yron pene in leade or in stone' Job 19. Again: "But sure we are that all tilings serve for ihe best unto them that love God.' Rom. 3. OlhtT passages dip!a- at once the antiquity and the change of meaning which terms have undergone in the course of three hundred years; as in the same chapter of Romans, '-They that are fleshly arc fleshly indeed ; but they that are goostlv .'.re goostiv-minded." And in Psalm 9 1 : ''So t thou shall not node to be afrayed for any bugles by nigh!, nor the arowe that llveth by day." The term "bugges' was used in Coverdale's time to signify any tiling dangerous or terrific, and not that domestic annoyance, which was not then known in London, the cimcr Icdirfarint. In his "prolog?,' the author gives this advice to his readers: '! cxhorle the yt thou finde ought therein yt thou understandest not, or that appcareth to be repugnant, give no temerious or hasty judgment thereof, but ascrybe it to thuie owne ignorance, not to the Scripture; thinke ye thou undcrstondest it not, or it is happyle oversene of ye interpreters, or wrong prynted. Agayne: it shall greately lielpe je to tindersloiul Scripture if thou mark not ontly what is spoken or wrylten, but of ulum, and unto whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstance, consyderyng what goelh before, and w hat followeih after."' The following was a prophecy: '-God shall not only send it to thee in a better shape by the mynistraevon of other that begane it afore, but shall al so move the herlcs of them which as yet mcdled not withal to take it in hands, and to bestowe the gifte of their understandynge Ihereon." Cuvrrdale tlie frsl Translator of lite Bi ble. Miles Coverdale was a native of Yorkshire, where he was born in 1487. In early life he was a zealous I'apist, ancl became an Augustine monk. I rom the recantation of Thomas Topic; v, a friar, at Stoke Clare, in Suffolk, we find I Coverdale at Bumstead, in Essex, in 1523, where he declared openly against tne mass, l he worship ot images, and he had gone to escape t.ic persecut.on men rommencea. mine trier?, he assisted 1 mdal in the translation ol the Pentateuch after the first copy had necn iom. lie continued to iaiv pan in the biblical labors of that reformer. and though Tindal fell a victim to the malice of his enemies, Coverdale pur sued these studies till 1535, when the lhe following imprint: "Prynted in the vcar of our Lord, MDXXXY., and fvnished the fourth day of October." u 1533 Coverdale was emploved in i . . . . ranee ii xvas orjcred to seize the edition, conhaberdasher. The tvnes and work mon wpr( ,urn removed in r.nnrlnn . - anr in 1539, Cranmer's, or "the Great Bible." appeared with the advantage f:irther corrections from Coverdale. Xhev were much assisted in these laI J " " bors by the protection of Cromwell against the opposition of the prelates to the Knghsh translation of the Bible. In Autrust. 1551 Coverdale w:is nnminntP,! o - - v" to the see of Exeter, in the place of sev. a decided Romanist : to this Iip . - . . . was presented on account of his knowledge of the Scriptures, and his unblemished character. Immeditplv :iftfr Oneen Mary came to the throne. Cov " . . ' . . . . - dale was deprived and imprisoned. He was contined with the other leading re formers, and signed with them the con fession of faith. During his imprison merit he wrote "An Exhortation to the J marriage to the chaplain of the King of Denmark, who interfered in his be half. His release being procured with or i tome difhculty, not till twelve months

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dition ol leaving the kingdom, t.,ovcrdale went to Denmark. .bridged from Terccntary Tracts. THE CATHOLICS. published By REQUEST. When a desperate and unprincipled '. . . , 1 .. I ..... ,(l ,.,,; ... " - arrn u 'itrnmct ni.Mmp t r-niir.t r.f i I v ' "'""" """"- ." . dllleMenre in rp Krintu ntvir.inr.s: it is I the dntv of rvnn'nP in sten forward" and hvf.Ti.rv mean, in nnr. nftemni to arrest such unhofy doings, come from wllPP.ro thr-v mav." LVnrv mnn wbn

has paid any attention to passing events hPpicss of their country, in the perrannnf failnl,!.vnn.i.i H.ni cv.-rl salient duration of its freedom and

of li. iPsidinf Wl.ir sorb :.s thp r. Vr. Star, (ho IV v. f'nrirr an.l Ennuirer. and others of the same characterJ.avebeen m:,l.-i.,o- mrt5t riiahn!pal nltPmnr (r rxrUtU f.u -.lino- nf

the community against the Catholics, degree of eminence, in literature, comAnd for what? Simnlv because the ,T1L'rce' ''"'culture, Improvements at

Catholics claim the ril-ht of worshinnin.T God according to (he. dirtales of their consciences. Another reason i n might be added. The great body of the Catholics is composed of Irish, French, and German emigrants men who have been inured to toil, and driv en from their native land, by the iron

hand of oppression, to seek a home and in examples of justice and liberty. happiness in this happy land, where op- And I presume, that your fellow expression has not, as yet, planted her zs will not forget the patriotic part ruthless standard. Tyranny at home which you took in the accomplishment has naturally inclined them to hate of t'cir government, or the important tyrants; hence when they come here, assistance which they received from a they become citizens and still retain nation in which the Roman Catholic that innate hate which the oppressed f,il11 '3 professed.

thvas leel lor the oppressor. 1 lie majority of them become Democrats, They find themselves to be men free uid independent. They discover that they have rights they will not suffer those rights to be trampled upon, They think, speak, and act; and they arc always to be found acting wiih the fnends ot equal rights. I his is perhaps one great reason why these men ire to be disfranchised and driven from the land of their adoption t!,is then is the reason why a war ot exicrinitiation is to be waged against them, and they must neither think, speak, act, nor worship God like other men. tYe are no Catholic; would to heavbrighter examples of excellence than i snmt mpn un ,-iva Pn nrr. ssnrs n lhe Catholic faith. But it is not of tieir religjon nor of their virtuous men we WOIJu Spealc. It j5 cf the natural, moraj? aild cn right they have to live i(mon usto worship God in their own wayI i . k.i.i ip'il r.nrlifle I r n mannop cimn l. In I hem . , . ... ... . . , f seems right, without the dictation of , ., . ,i i any party even though that party be - i en n.i j . if comprised of "all the decency. ' l.T. , -I .1 vvnen oaa men revue tms por.ecueu peuj-iu ii ' ' .g i .... lu i : : r.. ...... i me setters ot tne tamer oi nis country and read his opinions of them. He ivncw immv iiiucu wars uuc ui innu iv.n i i i . ii. . r !e as th h of praise from him, will more than bal ance all the falsehoods and imposition V' "' unwonuy wreicnes as oan, . - iveuu, ivc. vv e commena to tne peru.a. o, our readers, the following letter, from Genr i it 1 r o(r,n V rtS,,",6 . lu I W ...I. . I i 1 i --.,11 ana .l"Kr ""ci " rt 1' , ,l Rrauuaiory aaaress upon u.u ua.t,,,, s I ..lnfiA-. 4 -v l-kA I'KAPiylnrKM'. I lKJ" l" ' ' -V r...7.,. -m-j .. - congratulatory address from Charles Pnn re nr. nr. he r-""r'' rt,,u unammou8 eiecuon to u.e i . . I . .. .. ..T TT c 1 o tne lioman Catholics oj tne u. o. of America. r.pnilcmpn WKil I now reeeivp - with much satisfaction vour contra ti j . . o ulation on my being called by a unan- - imous vote, to the first station in my - country, I cannot but duly notice vour - 1 politeness, in oifering an apology for the unavoidable delay. As that delay will do me the justice to believe, that - your testimony of the increase of the public prosperity, enhances the pleas I ure which I should otherwise have ex

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perienced from your affectionate ad dress I feel that m' conduct in war and in peace, lias met with more general approbation than could have reason ably been expected, and find myself disposed to consider that fortunate cir cumstance, in a great degree resulting from the able support and extraordin ca.idjr of fdjow cUize!5 of ai . w ' denominations. The prospect of national prosperity nr,w before us is truly animating, and olIS,'t to cxcite he exertions, of all l0ud metl lo establish and SCCUre tllC independence. America, under the smil" ol Hivine I'rovidencc, the pro ,cr tion of a Zood government and the euliivation of manners, morals and pi ety, cannot fail attaining an uncommon homc f,nd respectability abroad As mankind become more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations I thank you, rentlemrr, tor your kind concern forme. While my life and my health shall continue, in whatever situation I may be, it shall be my constant endeavor to justify the favorable sentiments which you are pleased to express of my conduct. And may the members of your society in America, animated alone by the pure spirit of Christianity, and still conducting themselves as the laithlul subjects ol our Government, enjoy every temporal and s-piritual felicity rv(nrr Tv shicto GEORGE ASHLNGION. March, 1790. JERUSALEM Jerusalem was a ploughed field, and ind on which the temple now the joint inheritance of two one of whom was married several children, the other lived a bachelor. They cultivated in common the field which had devolved on them in right of their mother. At harvest time, the two brothers bound up their sheaves, and made them two equal slacks, which they left upon the field. During the night a good thought i iuu ci emu lit iu i. . ii iiti i, n.ia ci i ic I ' and children to maintain; it is not lust , t , . ' . . , that our shares should be equal; let ... r i Vme l ien laice a iew sueaves i rom my I , , .. .... . cl-irL- arwl cpriflv nHn llipm tn hisCII.V.IV .... , . w: nftt nprr:Vfi ;t .in,i fhPre- " . fore cannot refuse them." This pro- . ct lh(j youn m;U) iinmejiatev exe. J , . fhat n:ht lho eiJer awoke l - ii and said to his wife, "my brother is young and lives alone, without a com panion to assist him in his labors, and console him under his fatigues. It is not just that we should take fiom the field as many sheaves as he does; let us get up and secretly go and carry a .'. in mimlir ff cti!ivra In hia cl nr1!.I - V. . LI I IIUIllv.l .v. a i - . v. I. , he win not ,ind it out to-morrow, and i hprrfnre rnnnot refuse thpm." and thev did gQ according The next day both Krrtfhra wpllt ,hi f1PM. and eaeh V..W. -- , j 8tacks alike: neither being able in his to account for the prodigy They pursued the same course lor sev eral successive nights; but as each carned to his bromer s siacit tne same numb of sheaves, the stacks still remained equal, till one nigtu noin oe- . .... ...... I (ermined t0 stand sentinel to elucidate , . . .1 I I. I : the mystery; mey mci mui the sheaves destined for his brother's stack. "Now the spot where so beautiful a thought at once oauncu i, anu wns .. . . . j j so persevermgij tuicu upon vy iww men, must be agreeable to God ; and men blessed it and chose it whereupon to build a nouse to nis name. simple, primeval and natural is the mspiration leading men to consecrate io - God a spot on which virtue germinaieu - 1 upon earth; l have heard among araos.

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iion. iiie mr or me oioie is nreatlied all over the East. A De. Lamnrl'mes pilgrimage to the Holy Txind. THE WORD ISO. There are but few words in the En glish language ot more importance than the word .vo: and auhoup-h it is verv short, it is to some people, exceedingly nam io learn. ;uany a man has been ruined by not knowing how to use this word. Charles Easy was a good natured young fellow, and was left two or three thousand dollars, with which he went into business; he had many customers, for every body loved him; but unluckily, his customers had forgotten to bring their money with them they all, however, promised payment some in ninety days, some in sixty, and some in thirty, and some the next morniner. Charles doubted and hesitated; but not knowing how to say Jo, he credited them all. Thus his goods were scattered over the country, and while he obtained one half of the debts at more expense and trouble than his profits upon the whole of them were worth, he lost the other half. In the midst of these embarrassments, a worthless fellow, in company with whom Charles had once drank a bottle of wine, had the assurance, on the strength of his acquaintance, to ask him to be bail for him to a large amount. Charles started at the request, and the word Jb was seemingly bolting out; but stuck in his throat; he yielded, and in a few days he was a ruined man. Thomas Smoothly was social, polite, and engaging; he loved neither the bottle nor the cards: he hated late hours, which always gave him the headache the next day; but notwithstanding this, he gambled, drank freely and kept late hours, because his companions importuned him, and he knew not how to say JV6. At length a set of sharpers saw Thomas' weak side, and maiked him for their prey. Thev enticed him to deep play, and never !ert hi,n 1,11 lhcy h Alas, pnor Thoma ut his last shdUnc. poor as! he might have been an ornament to society, and hon or to his relatives, had he only learned to sav .o. Let youth learn the proper use of this important monosyllable. If advised and persuaded against your interest, say JVo. If templed to bring a blot upon your character, or Btain upon jour conscience, say, with energy and emphasis, Jo. But to the prayer of want, and to the call of real honor and virtue, never say A'o. THE AXE. The power of the American axe. (says Latrobe in his book on the Uni ted States,) and the skill with which it is wielded, may well excite the admiration of an European. The weapon itself is no more to be compared with the vile chopper commonly seen in the hands of our woodmen, than a gimblet can be compared to a centerbit. It is formed upon a different prin ciple the handle is set far forward, and it acts upon the tree, more from the wedgelike form, its own weight, and the skilful swing which gives it impetus, than from any great exer tion of strength on the part of the woodman. In fact, sleight more than strength is employed in its use. The rapidity with which the huge tree of the forest falls before a single pair of well-swung axes is really marvellous; and the axe may rank with maize and steam as one of the three things which have conquered the Western Vorld. LAUGHTER. Man is the only animal with the powers of laughing, a privilege which was not bestowed upon him tor nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, short of a lock-jaw, and despite what the poet says about "lhe loud laugh speaks the vacant mind." The mind should occasionally be vacant as the land should sometimes lie fallow; and for precisely the same reason. A lawyer engaged in a cause, tormented a poorGerman witness so much with questions, that the old man declared he was so exhausted that he must have a. drink of water before he could say any thing more. Upon this the J udge called out to the teasing lawyer, "I think, sir, you must be done with the witness, for you have primped him dry." -

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