Western Sun, Volume 5, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 June 1814 — Page 4

MONITORIAL "Say why was man so eminently rais'd, "Amid the vast creation!" MAN is placed in an elevated situation in the great scale of being. He approximates almost to creative power. By him societies have been formed, laws instituted, cities built, and the various productions of every climate and soil accumulated. By his aid, the solitary wilderness, where the wild beasts of the forest prowled for prey, is converted into fruitful fields, and blossom as the rose. Not the roaring ocean, nor the trackless fields of unlimited space, nor yet the immense rapidity of the comet's flight, or the harmonious order of the shining orbs of heaven, confine the researches of this child of real on. Bold, daring and enterprising, he wings his flight to other climes, where great Arcturus sinks, and the baleful influence of Orion is unknown--With a figure erect, an eye turned towards heaven, and a countenance beaming intelli gence, man walks abroad in his native majesty, the pride and glory of the creation. Reason, by which we deduce unknown from known truths Imagination, by which we form ideal scenes of bliss or woe Memory by which we retain knowledge, and recal past events--Volition, by which we resolve to do or not to do Conscience, by which we are checked in the commission of evil and the passions, benevolent or malevolent, by which we aie impelled to action, consiitute the most prominent materials in the great fabric of the mind. To pierce the clouds which envelope the empire of the soul ; to discover, analyze and exhibit her secret movements

and operations, is a task laborious and painful. Des Cartes and Locke, by turning the intellectual vision inward; by watching the secret springs and movements of the mind, arranged and exhibited to a wondering world their sublime difcoveries. Reflecting, therefore, on the power, the excellence, the vast resources and dignity of our species, who can refrain from exclaiming in the language of divine inspiration, 1 Will praise thee, O Lord, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made !' Let us, then praise God, for he is the giver of every good and perfect gift. In him we live, and move, and have our being.' Let us, moreover, learn to respect ourselves ; let us not degrade the dignity of our nature, by suffering the wild irregular passions, to predominate, and lead us astray from the path ol rectitude. YORICK.

thee, bear with those who are/ and suffering. Whatever we content with the light of the/ do, we ought first to examine sun thou hast placed in the / the sequel or end ; if that be firmament. Let not those, /good, our pleasures will be who tell us we must love thee, crowned with ease and concover their robe with white / tent : but to rush on any delinen, hold in detestation those / light that must end in sadwho tell us the same thing in / ness, suits not the prudence a cloak of black woollen.--/ of a sound mind : it is but oMay those whole vesture is /ver-rating pleasure, to underdyed with red or purple, who / value vexation, and like a rule over a small heap of the / beast to be caught in the snare

mud of l hi s earth, and v ho by dint of appetite-

pofiefs fome rounded bits of a

certain metal, enjoy without

pride what they call grandeur and riches ; and may Others behold them without envy ; for thou knaweft th . t in thefe vanities there is nothing to be envied. May ail men re member that they are brethren; may they abhor the tyranny that isexercifed over the mind, as they execrate the violence that takes by force the fruit of labor and peaceful induilry. If the fcourge of war be necetTary, let us no: devour one another in tiie midfl of peace ; but let us employ our momenta?) exiflence in blefling, eauaiiy

in a thoufand different iaeaua itges, irom Siam :o California, my gooinefs, which has gi ven us this momentary cxif tence."

Decatur and Garden. 1 he follow ing anecdote of thefe two gentlemen u in circulation. After the capture of the Macedonian, comma dore Decatur is fasd to have employed the band of mufic

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Qne day after 'Joi

ner, Carden politely begged or the privil, ge of calling for a tune, and called tor God lave the king And now, fir, lays the honorable cantain alter ifs conclufiori it is your time to call.' Well hr, (laid !). witha good deal of fang frotd let us have Ori-

PRAYER BY VOLTAIRE. Fas est hostt doccri is a latin proverb, which reconciles us to receiving wholcfome inftruclious even from an enemy, i IW

religious reader may have (tared at viewing the title of thir

da s lecture ; but he will certainly find id the following tranflation of Voltaire's prayer a root! portion of Chriftian philofophy. It exhibits the toleration of a Paul, and the cha riry ol a Jehu ; and I am perfuaded that it never could have Unwed from tiie pen I I do not fay the heart) of its author, unlefs he had jult rifen from a frelh perufal oi il.c goipc!.

ON PLEASURE. The wifdom of Demoflhe nes was admirable in the an fwer he : eturned to Co; in rian Lais, 1 would not buy re pentrnce at io dear a rate,'

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MATURE.

Human nature, lays an e,tJ inent moral w riter, appears a very deformed, or a ve;y

beautiful object, according to the different lialirs in which

it is viewed

When

men of iorlamed pafljons, cr of wicked dcligis, wi 'iDg one another to pieces by open violence, or undermining each other by d'eret treachery-

Surely pieafure is lawful, ant! 1 w?lc;l vve oblei ve bale and God at firft did ordain ir foi "arrow ends purfued by dif-

uie, and if w e take i: aa i; was provided for us, we tak

it without a Ming ; out when

in the meafure ot manner we exceed, ue fully the pure liream, .As every dimonell action is but an earned laid

down for grief, lb vice is the infallible fore runner ol wretchednefs ; on the belt conditions it brings reocnt-

11 Not unto man, but unto tlice, t!:e God of all beings, of lance and totment too.

Header yuu need not be at raid to join n it,

Repertorj.

honed means, w e are a(Iamed of our fpecies, and our

z worlds, atul gf all ae;esf do 1 addrefs myfeli ; i. teebu creatures, lort in thy imtnenfity, and imperceptible tothereH ol thcuniverfe, may prefume to addrefs i!;cc, and afk ol tliet any thine : of thee who hall riven ail : of thee whofc decrees are unchangeable as they aie eternal ; condelcend to look in pity on the errors which are infeparable from our duty, ano let them not be to us the ground of our calamities. 1 houhaH not niven us hearts to hate one another, nor hands to cut orc another's throats ; grant that we may mutually afQtl one anothei to fupport the burden of a painf ul and tranfiiory life. Lei not the lutle differences between tiie . eifmcnts that covei our feeble bodies, between our dcfeclh e languages, between our ridiculous cuftoms, between our many imperfect laws; bet tveen our crude and loolifh opinions, between our fevera) conditions, fo unequal in our eves, and L unequal in thine ltt not t he man) hule diltinclions that den ne the ieverai ciafi' (s of atoms called num. be fignals of hatred and perfecution. ia; thoic who light up wa. tapers ai noon day to celebrate

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relate to our political, moral or religious duties, is a moil henious fin.

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