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Hotel in the city of Utica, the Surveyor-general will offer for sale at public vendue, the lot of ground with the buildings thereon, formerly occupied by the Clerk of the Supreme 3 Court in the said city of Utica. Said property will be put up at its minimum or appraised value, and sold to the highest bidder.

4 Conditions of Sale. Not less than one-fourth of the pur5 chase-money to be paid down at the sale, or within fortyeight hours thereafter, and the purchaser's bond given for the residue thereof, payable in six equal annual instalments, with interest at seven per cent.

6 Refusal or neglect to comply with these conditions, subjects the purchaser to a penalty of fifty dollars.

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Nov. 3d law 8w.

8 H. HALSEY, Surv'r Gen'l.

Definitions, &c.—In pursuance—in accordance with. Resolution— exprossed determination. Commissioners—men commissioned, appointed. Surveyor-general-an officer who has charge, or the superintendence of public lands surveyed or to be surveyed, or marked out in portions of a given number of acres each. Define sale, vendue, lot, thereon, clerk. Supreme Court-a high court of law. Define said city, (city said or mentioned before?) minimum, appraised, highest bidder, (one who will bid to be sold at the highest price; at his price; offers the highest price,) purchase-money, (the price,) thereafter, bond, residue, payable, annual, instalments.

SECT. CCXXI.-PHOCION.

He knew that eloquence is a necessary quality in a states1 man, for enabling him to execute happily the great designs 2 he may undertake during his administration. He therefore applied himself particularly to the attainment of it, and with great success. Persuaded that it is with words as with 3 coins, of which the most esteemed are those that with less weight have most intrinsic value, Phocion had formed a lively, close, concise style, which expressed a great many ideas in few words. Appearing one day absent in an as4 sembly, where he was preparing to speak, he was asked the reason of it: I am considering, says he, whether it is not possible for me to retrench some part of the discourse which I am to make. He was a strong reasoner, and by that means 5 prevailed over the most sublime eloquence; which made Demosthenes, who had often experienced this, whenever he

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appeared to harangue the public, say, There is the axe which cuts away the whole effect of my words. One would imagine 6 that this kind of eloquence is absolutely contrary to the genius of the vulgar, who require the same things to be often repeated, and with greater extent, in order to their being more intelligible'; but it was not so with the Athenians'; lively, penetrating, and lovers of a hidden sense, they valued themselves upon understanding an orator at half a 7 word; and really did understand him. Phocion adapted himself to their taste, and in this point surpassed even Demosthenes; which is saying a great deal.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define quality, (qualification?) execute, happily, designs, administration, applied himself, attainment, success, persuaded, coins, weight, intrinsic, lively, close, concise, style, ideas, absent, (absentminded,) assembly, retrench, reasoner, prevailed over, (got the victory over,) harangue, public, absolutely, contrary, penetrating, hidden, understanding, orator, adapted, taste, point, (particular respect,) surpassed, deal.

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SECT. CCXXII.-AN APOLOGY FOR SERIOUSNESS.

WHAT! always dreaming over heavenly things,
Like angel-heads in stone with pigeon-wings?
Canting and whining out all day the word,

And half the night? Fanatic and absurd!
3 Mine be the friend less frequent in his prayers;
Who makes no bustle with his soul's affairs;
Whose wit can brighten up a wintry day,
And chase the splenetic dull hours away:
Content on earth in earthly things to shine,
Who waits for heaven ere he becomes divine,
Leaves saints t' enjoy those altitudes they teach,
And plucks the fruit placed more within his reach.
Well spoken, advocate of sin and shame,
Known by thy bleating, Ignorance thy name';
Is sparkling wit the World's exclusive right?
The fixed fee-simple of the vain and light?
Can hopes of heaven, bright prospects of an hour,
That come to waft us out of Sorrow's power,
Obscure or quench a faculty, that finds
Its happiest soil in the serenest minds?

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5 Religion curbs indeed its wanton play,
And brings the trifler under rigorous sway,
But gives it usefulness unknown before,
And, purifying, makes it shine the more.
6 A Christian's wit is inoffensive light:

A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight:
Vigorous in age as in the flush of youth,
'Tis always active on the side of truth:
Temperance and peace insure its healthful state,

And make it brightest at its latest date.

Definitions, &c.-Define canting, whining, fanatic, absurd, bustle, wit, wintry, chase, splenetic, dull, content, earthly, divine, altitudes, (ecstasies?) plucks, reach, advocate, bleating, (what animal bleats?) ignorance, exclusive, right, fee-simple, sorrow, serenest, curbs, wanton, trifler, rigorous, purifying, inoffensive, beam, aids, grieves, vigorous, flush, active, side, truth, temperance, insure, health, date.

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SECT. CCXXIII.-A FRIEND.

Celestial Happiness! whene'er she stoops
To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds,
And one alone, to make her sweet amends

For absent heaven: the bosom of a friend.-YOUNG.

WHEN the sad mind, oppressed with care,
Stands tottering with a load of grief,
And prospects black point to despair,
What form is that which holds relief?

A Friend.

When pain and anguish rack the frame,
Extort the groan, or heave the sigh';
When fever sucks the vital flame';

What can illume the deep sunk eye?
A Friend.

When doubt or fear o'erwhelms the mind,
And darkness thick obscures the way';
Whose kind advice will help to find,
Who mark the road to, wisdom's

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A Friend,

When calumny base, with snaky tongue
And poisonous slander slime the name';

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A FRIEND.

What soul starts forth to share the wrongs:
Who's champion then for injured fame?
A Friend.

Is beauty gone? are riches fled?
Do adverse gales blow bleak and fast?
Who 'll pillow poverty's lone head,

And fondly lull each care to rest?

A Friend.

Does folly taint, or age or youth,
Or foul affections clog the soul?
Who kindly points the path to truth:
Who dares our errors to control?

A Friend.

And who, in sweetest hours of mirth,
Who, who can heighten every joy:
Add bliss to bliss, make heaven of earth:
Give pleasure zest without alloy ?

Who, in retirement's lonely shade,

A Friend.

Can give to Nature charms more sweet:
Enchantment add to every glade,

And fill with life each soft retreat?

A Friend.

At length, when death with sturdy gloom
And meager aspect stalks in view';
Who'll smooth the passage to the tomb,

And kiss a sweet, a sad adieu ?

Say, every heart: say, angels: say:

A Friend.

Is there a name than friend more dear?
When guilty man despairing lay,

What name did then the Saviour bear?

A Friend.

A friend, O God! a friend most dear,

Though others false, or change to dust,
Or distant far, still thou art near,

Forever kind, and true, and just:

A Friend.

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THE VALUE OF TIME.

Then come, dear Jesus! seize my heart;
And other friends no more I'll mourn;
Content with all for thee to part,

Till death safe land me on thy bourn,

My Friend.

Definitions, &c.-Define celestial, stoops, shrine, goddess, amends, absent, oppressed, care, tottering, load, prospect black, (gloomy prospects are discouraging: black still more,) form, (person who,) holds, (and is able to give,) rack, frame, (body,) extort, heave, (make one heave,) sucks, vital flame, (flame of life, vitality,) illume, (make bright,) overwhelms, obscures, darkness thick, (deep darkness,) calumny, base, snaky, poisonous, slime, champion, adverse gales, (head winds,) bleak, pillow, lull, taint, clog, control, mirth, heighten, zest, alloy, retirement, lonely, charms, enchantment, glade, retreat, sturdy, meager, aspect, stalks, adieu, seize, content, bourn.

SECT. CCXXIV.-THE VALUE OF TIME.

1 THE value of time may be calculated and enforced by the mean duration of human life. In this country, at least in the large cities, about one-half of the rational and account2 able creation die under four years of age; and perhaps, were the calculation to be universally extended, upon the average, thirty years' existence to each would equal, if not 3 exceed, the life of the individual. From these thirty, ten years may be deducted for childhood; during which period few rational pleasures are cultivated. This reduces the pos4 session of time to twenty years; and, if we allow one-half to sleep and sickness, we shall then have ten years left for intellectual improvement and general happiness.

Is this the average portion of active existence allowed to man? and is this the being that is complaining of the 5 tediousness of life, and the slow flight of time? that is con

tinually seeking some new diversion, some fashionable amusement to consume his time? and, when his time is consumed, bitterly complaining of the brevity of life, yet very rarely 6 reflecting on its uncertainty? Alas! for the inconsistency of my fellow-creatures! alas for my own!

The fact affords us an important lesson, which cannot be 7 expressed with more point than the Wise Man's inference from the same premises: "Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

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