"Life glides away, LORENZO! like a brook; "For ever changing, unperceiv"d the change.
"In the same brook none ever bath"d him twice: "To the same life none ever twice awoke."
YOUNG.
Step aside, vain mortal!--cast thine eyes on this emaciated figure, and then reflect on thy transitory life. Look yet closer--See! the smile is no longer seated here. In how short a time has this change happened!
A few hours since and he sported in the sunshine of health: his gaiety was equal to thine. He had measured full twenty years; and many more appeared in readiness to swell the lump.
Dost thou shrink back?--Nay, start not! "tis thine own picture thou art viewing!--Ere long and thou wilt be likened unto this odious ma.s.s.
Perhaps thou mayest not again behold that bright luminary which const.i.tutes the day.
Ah! "twas but yesterday that this now inanimate substance was in the full exercise of every living faculty!--He had laid down a plan for future life, but lived not to put it in practice. While he was figuring to himself the many days of uninterrupted pleasure that seemed within his grasp, the dread summons arrived; and scarcely was the awful packet opened, before the victim was made sure.
L. B.
_March 25, 1797._
DUTY OF PARENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN.
By all the nameless sensations of tenderness, which ye whom heaven hath blessed with children feel towards them, be entreated, then, to make their improvement in piety and virtue their chief concern. That you should provide as far as you are able for their comfortable support and happy settlement in life, is undoubtedly your duty. Nor is it less your duty to afford them every opportunity in your power for improving their understandings, and laying up stores of useful and ornamental knowledge in their minds. But, let it never be forgotten, that the princ.i.p.al part of education, is the education of the heart. Endeavour by every method in your power, to inspire them with a reverence for the Supreme Being, with grat.i.tude for his innumerable mercies; with a sence of honour and love of virtue; with sentiments of generosity and compa.s.sion towards their fellow creatures; with regard to truth; and with a consciousness of the dignity and excellence of their rational nature. On this foundation a.s.sist them in raising the superstructure of a manly, virtuous and useful character. In a word, imitate the example of the pious patriarch; and so command your children and houshold after you, "that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment."
PITY.
When I hear one _say_ to his neighbour in adversity, "I am sorry for your misfortunes," it sounds very much, in my ear like, "bring me my slippers."
NEW-YORK.
_MARRIED,_
On Wednesday evening the 22d ult. at Fish-Kill, by the Rev. Mr. Van Vankin, Mr. Jacob P. Roome, of this city, to Miss Nelly Hoogland, of that place.
"If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast."
On Sunday evening sen"ight, by the Rev. Dr. Foster, Mr. Isaac Seymour, to Miss Sally Wilson, both of this city.
Same evening, by the Rev. Mr. Milledolar, Mr. James P. Allen, to Miss Mary Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, Esq. of Middle-town, New-Jersey.
_METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS._ _From the 26th ult. to the 1st inst._
THERMOMETOR observed at 6, _A.M._ 3, _P.M._ Prevailing winds.
OBSERVATIONS on the WEATHER.
deg. deg. 6. 3. 6. 3.
100 100 March 26 32 40 e. s. clear l. wd. do. do.
27 47 55 s. nw. P. rai. h. w. clr. l. do.
28 34 37 nw. do. cloudy lt. wd. clr. l w.
29 30 45 calm. clear calm. do. do.
30 34 43 e. se. clear l. w. cloudy do.
31 40 43 se. s. cloudy l. w. s. r. h. w.
April 1 43 49 nw. do. cloudy l. w. clear do.
RESULTS OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
FOR MARCH 1797.
Mean temperature of the thermometer at sun-rise 34 50 Do. do. of the do. at 3 P.M. 43 85 Do. do. of the do. the whole month 39 75 Greatest monthly range between the 7th. and 18th. 43 0 Do. do. in 24 hours, between the 8th and 9th. 35 0 Warmest day the 18th. 62 0 Coldest do. the 7th. 19 0
12 days the Mercury was at or below frost, at sunrise.
4 do. the do. was at or below do. and at 3. P.M.
9 do. it has rained, and a very large quant.i.ty has fallen.
3 do. it snowed, and about eight inches has fallen.
18 do. the wind was at the westward of north and south.
11 do. the do. was at the eastward of do. and do.
14 do. the do. was light at sunrise, and at 3 P.M.
7 do. the do. was high at do. and at do.
20 do. it was clear at do. and at do.
8 do. it was cloudy at do. and at do.
2 do. Thunders and Lightnings, one of which was heavy.
A number of remarkable heavy winds has occured this month.
_For the +New-York Weekly Magazine+._
SOLUTION TO THE REBUS.