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The use of the public print for the gratification of personal malevolence, has grown into a custom as prevalent as it is pernicious. Though pith and point may be the spirit and essence of every good literary article, yet an editor abuses his opportunities and forgets the deference due to the feelings of his readers, when he takes advantage of his position to vent his personal malignity.
In a number of a University periodical, nearly a column of glittering generalities, undisputed truisms and plagiarized ideas is used as a semi-disguise preparatory to a personal thrust.
Such a course is cowardly and contemptible. No person, possessed of the sensibilities and sympathies that uplift and dignify true manhood, will deal a blow which he knows cannot, owing to the peculiar circumstances, be parried or returned by the party he wantonly attacks.
Bible texts, like proverbs, should be sold in pairs. When again the text, "Abstain from all appearance of evil," is put into the market, we would suggest coupling with it as a yoke-fellow, "Charity thinketh no evil." F.
Newes of muche merrie mayking amonge ye youthes and fayre maydens and per channce some who may notte bee soe fayre, maketh mee to think that lerneing bee no suche hardsshype as oure fatherers accounted itt inne olden tymes, for wh. we sometyme fele sadenes and some tyme much joie. For oure fatheres and lykewis oftentyme oure motheres alsoe were bounden to longe tasskes and wth harrd tasske masters, and if bye channce anie one slypped from ye waie heled uprite and propre, hee was
delt wth ful sternely. Itt is tolde of Abijah Stone that synce he smyled in meteing alt ye fayre daughter of ye parson, shee beeing a swete mayde of scairce sixeten, ye tything manne toldd ye master of ye colidge and he—Abijah—was commanded to wryte ten score lynes of Lattin vers, whereon he was herd to saie, itt wass a bestely gryude and that he wh. see ye master of ye colidge furrthere, 1st, butt hee wrote them alle ye saime. And itt was whyspered of ye mayde that she spente ye whole morne of ye nexte daie—it beeing Mondaie, inne manie families cald washhyng daie—ypon ye backe borde. A greevous myschannce since itt were innе ye spryng tyme, whene Maie cheryse were firrst rype, to plucke and ete, and she, as wele as manie wanton byrdes, was muche given thereto.
Butt inne ye giddie daies we see nowe, hee wd. notte have wayted to smyle in ye holie sannctuarie, butte wd. have cutt hys classe, and wythe hir sate ypon ye stayres, and if a tuttor or ye maisterr of ye colidge hade come bye hee wd. have slypped downe to ye chymestre romes and shee wd. have gon to ye lybrarie to asske for ye Frrench dicshonarie, and ye master wolde have sayde to himsself, "she is studdious, and hathe muche fondenes for hir bookes." But ye tuttor, who hathe bene theyre hymself, wd. smyle and wynk, and saie that schule was a fyne place for a yunge manne, for theyre hee lernt much of ye world and itts waies. Soe muche diferrence is beetwene two menne, all becaus of ye diferrent poynte of viewe. Soe it musste be borne inne mynde that to alle thynges there bee two sydes, wh- maie be verie dyversse, and hee who lerns this erely and seeketh for ye merrie and bryghte syde, willle bee hee who most often hathe a bullie tyme in thys lyfe.