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JUSTUS H. SCHEUBER,$*V. Sept. 23. R.T.R.C.C.On 11 O ? E. ~Hope fpriups eternal in the human hrtad ; Man never IS but always 7 O B E bltji.P.SSAY ON MAN.HOPE is the only folacc of misfortune, the firft bleffing of our happier hours. Mankind, like butterflies, pur-foe the giddy impulfe of the moment, fluttering from joy to joy ; and though grateful tor the prefent happinefs, yet urging (till with impatience toward the future—and fcarcc allowing time for the pofkflion of exilting good, without hurrying onward in idea to that which is to come. The plcafures of purfuit arc allowed to equal even the joys of poflelCon ; and an active imagination derives nearly as great enjoyment tram the pleating profpeft of delight, as from its adual fruition, For anticipation in itfclf is deftruitive of felicity ; it weakens the diltani joy by familiarifing it to our minds, by flcaling from the future to add to the cxpedtations of the prefen t; and when the wilted for good does
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Savannah Columbian Museum and Savannah Advertiser
Savannah, Georgia, US
Fri, Sep 27, 1799
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