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twg_000000034400 | brings its own reward in recognition and in personal affection. Sooner or later, honor-work receives honor. Another reason for exaltation of one form of work above another, is that some kinds of work are so very hard to do. They involve the intense and complicated action of many and of complex powers. It may be hard physical work to break | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034401 | stones for a road-way, but the task itself is a simple one--the lifting of the arm and dropping it again with sufficient force to split a rock apart. But the writing of a prose masterpiece, such as the _Areopagitica_, involves the highest human faculties in harmonious action. If we add to the requirements of prose, the rhythm, the exalted imagery, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034402 | and perhaps the assonance and rhyme of verse, we still further increase the difficulty of the task, and the honor of its successful achievement. The king-work of a powerful monarch, the president-work of a republican leader, is serious work to do. Our honor is not all given to the king or president income, salary, or office; it is a tribute | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034403 | to hard and royal-minded work. Household service is personal service. It cannot be made a thing of set hours, and of measurably set tasks, as office-work maybe. We may talk of "eight-hour shifts," but they are scarcely practicable. Not every baby would go to successive "shifts"! House-demands vary, not only with every household, but with every day. When love-making is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034404 | wholly scientific, then domestic service will be. There is in it the same delicate personal adjustment, the changing requirements of weather, health, temper, and season, of emergency and stress, that are to be found in the most purely personal relation. When there is a period of unusual sickness through the community, not only the doctors have extra tasks, but all | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034405 | household servants as well. What social recognition can be given to servants who lie, steal, who shirk every duty that can be shirked, and who are both incompetent and unfaithful? The here-and-there one faithful helper receives her meed of appreciation and affection. The whole aspect of household work will change when honor-work is given: when home-helpers come up to us, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034406 | from the truthful and honor-loving class. The school-room is the place in which the principles of work are implanted: thoroughness, grasp, speed, decision, and definite purpose. The shop is the apprentice-place of work, before one takes up individual responsibilities. The man who wishes to rise in the railroad service goes into the shops and roundhouse. The man who wishes to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034407 | take charge of an important department in a department store is put to tying packages. Teachers' work will not be rightly done until certain advantages are given to teachers that are now largely withheld. Teachers need more society, more hours of play, freer opportunity of marriage. Instead of being tied up to exercise-books and roll-books, in their home-hours, they should | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034408 | have a chance to spend their time on the golf-links, at afternoon teas, in visiting and in entertaining friends. Take away society from any man or woman, and you take away the possibility of a growing, happy, and helpful life. We need friends just as we need air. Teachers need admiration and affection, just as much as the society girl | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034409 | does. Universities should have, in their faculties, men and women who represent the best social as well as the best intellectual life of the world--who are not only, in the highest sense of the word, society men and women, but who are social leaders, inspiring truth, inculcating larger social ideals of the best sort. The problem between capitalist and laborer, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034410 | however, only affects a portion of the world; that of domestic service a still smaller proportion; that of teachers affects only a class. There is another problem, which affects nearly all married women, and therefore a large section of the human race. It is the problem of mother-work. Here is where the economist should next turn his attention. First, What | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034411 | is Mother-work? Second, What are the best economic conditions under which this work can be done? When we have solved this question, we shall have solved a great human problem. Mother-work includes the bearing and the rearing of children, the conduct of a home, and the placing of that home in the right social atmosphere and relations. It includes manual, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034412 | intellectual, and spiritual labors. The one who lives and works, as God meant her to live and work, will never feel over-fatigue. Why do mothers often look so tired? It is because they too often do not have what every mother ought to have: education, rest, change, a Sabbath-day, individual income, intellectual interests, society. Whether in the simplest home or | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034413 | in the stateliest, there are certain manual things to be done in regard to the care and bringing-up of children, and the conduct of a home. To make the conditions of a woman's life easier, the very first thing is this: . _Women should be educated primarily for home-life._ By this I do not mean that a woman should be | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034414 | taught cooking, and not political economy; that she should be instructed in dressmaking and nursery-work, but not in chemistry and logic. I mean that the very fullest education that schools, colleges, universities, and foreign travel can give, should be given to the woman who is fortunate enough to have them at command, and that every woman, according to the degree | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034415 | of her possibilities of education and opportunity, should have the best. But always this education should be thought of as a part of her preparation for a woman's life. When boys are in a business college, the principal of that college does not forget that among the boys there may be more than one who will never have a business | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034416 | life, but who will go out into other interests and pursuits. Yet he turns the thoughts of _all_ boys in his school specially toward business problems. In schools and colleges for women, not all the girls will marry, not all will be mothers, but most of them will be. Is not, then, the normal education of a woman that which, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034417 | while it does not cramp her life in one direction, nor mould her in a set way, yet keeps always in mind the fact that the normal woman is being educated for a normal woman's life? This would not necessarily change the curriculum of our colleges in any way; it would change the spirit and atmosphere of some of them | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034418 | at once. Instead of the spirit being: "My mind is just as good as a man's. What a man can study, I can learn! What a man can do, I can do!"--the spirit would be this: "I am going out into a woman's life, and it is my business now to take to myself all the wisdom, counsel, experience, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034419 | inspiration of past ages, that I may be the very grandest woman that history has yet seen! I will be a land-mark in time: I will be a pivot in history around which the earth shall turn. Because of my life, women to the end of time shall be able to live a truer, freer, better life!" With this thought | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034420 | in mind, all the academic subjects would still pass into her mind and life, but they would be much more naturally set and their value would be greatly enhanced. Then we would not have the too-ambitious woman stepping out of college, or the restless and discontented one. We would have the large-minded, earnest, noble, public-spirited one, who would go out | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034421 | into the world as a fine type of woman, to live a woman's life and do a woman's work. Married or unmarried, she would still have a woman's interests, a woman's influence, a woman's charm. This higher education may or may not include practical studies in domestic science, nursing, and household emergencies, but she should learn somewhere the elements of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034422 | these studies, so that when she goes into a home of her own her duties and responsibilities will not be met in a half-hearted and untrained way. . Mothers should have rest-hours and rest-days. Is it not something extraordinary, from a purely economic point of view, that while it is widely recognized that every one should have one day in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034423 | seven for rest, that while business men are expected to close up their offices on the Sabbath, and all working men and women are given this day in the stores, the factories, and mines--the cook and maids have their Sundays out, and their week-day afternoons--that nowhere on earth, so far as I know, has there ever been a systematic arrangement | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034424 | by which mothers, as a class, have any specially arranged hours or days for rest! A baby's care does not stop on the Sabbath, and the average mother is practically on duty, at least over-seeing, day and night, twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four, from one end of the year to the other, no matter how many maids and nurses | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034425 | she may have in her employ! . Personal income and its use. What we buy marks our own individuality, as well as what we do. The woman whose father or husband adjusts her expenses and expenditures cannot by any possibility be the kind of woman that the one is who chooses her own things, and spends her money absolutely to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034426 | suit herself. When a man buys cigars or fishing-tackle, his wife may prefer to buy oratorios and golf-clubs. . Mothers should have some interest outside of home-tasks, to keep them in touch with world-interests and world-tasks. Not all mother's duty is inside the four walls of her home. The race has demands upon her, as well as her own child. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034427 | She ought to be guarded from that short-sighted and selfish devotion which makes her look upon her child as the centre of the universe, and which leads her to sacrifice every hour, every thought, every talent, to him alone. . Building up the place of a home in a community means much more than a rivalry with one's neighbors, as | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034428 | to which one shall have the cleanest house, the prettiest or most expensive curtains and furniture, who shall entertain the most, and whose children shall present the best appearance in the world! Making a social place for a family involves a very wide acquaintance with really great social ideals; with the best instincts and customs; with world refinement and manners, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034429 | as well as those of one's own town or village--with the social possibilities of life in general, as well as the etiquette of Quinton's Corners! To give the right stamp upon her home, a mother must have a social life, as well as domestic one. She must have time to enter somewhat into the activities of her own neighborhood, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034430 | must have society after marriage, as well as before. It is a different sort of society that she then needs. It is not a boy-and-girl society, with its crude ways, and its adolescent ideas of life. It is the society of earnest, cultured, and public-spirited men and women, each of whom is adding something to the general store of interest | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034431 | and ideals; each of whom is doing some phase of social work, according to his own talent and opportunity. When a mother steps out into life in this large way, makes education and training tributary to her mother-life, and does not stop growing intellectually or spiritually,--her charm as a woman increases, instead of diminishes, every year of her married life. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034432 | Her looks mark her everywhere as a supremely happy woman, and she goes out into the world marked with that strange, deep, grand impress of motherhood and womanhood, which has always made the true woman not only a working-mother, but a love-crowned queen! These and many other thoughts flit over one's mind in looking at any phase of work, or | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034433 | any piece of work. In the right choice of work lies the fullest use of one's capacities; in the right conditions of work lies the freest play of one's energies; in the right spirit of work lies the way of one's lasting happiness, and the foretaste of eternal joys. Thus the world is seen to consist of great cycles of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034434 | workers, rising in tiers one above another. Those who do not work are quickly cut out from all participation in race-progress and in race-delights; those who work earnestly, but blindly, have their small reward. But those who work with spiritual energy and enthusiasm are weaving their handiwork into the very fibre of the universal frame. It is for these spiritual | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034435 | workers that the great eagerness of life is undying; for them there is no shadow of fatigue; for them there is the joy of mastery and accomplishment; for them the peace of soul that comes from the triumphant achievement of one's mission to mankind! THE END End of Project Gutenberg's The Warriors, by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 57 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034436 | Produced by Christine De Ryck, Stig M. Valstad, Suzanne L. Shell and PG Distributed Proofreaders A VOYAGE TO THE MOON: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, OF THE PEOPLE OF MOROSOFIA, AND OTHER LUNARIANS. BY GEORGE TUCKER (JOSEPH ATTERLEY) "It is the very error of the moon, She comes more near the earth than she | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034437 | was wont, And makes men mad."--_Othello_. CONTENTS. . Atterley's birth and education--He makes a voyage-- Founders off the Burman coast--Adventures in that Empire--Meets with a learned Brahmin from Benares. . The Brahmin's illness--He reveals an important secret to Atterley--Curious information concerning the Moon--The Glonglims--They plan a voyage to the Moon. . The Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage-- Description | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034438 | of their travelling machine--Incidents of the voyage--The appearance of the earth; Africa; Greece--The Brahmin's speculations on the different races of men--National character. . Continuation of the voyage--View of Europe; Atlantic Ocean; America--Speculations on the future destiny of the United States--Moral reflections-- Pacific Ocean--Hypothesis on the origin of the Moon. . The voyage continued--Second view of Asia--The Brahmin's speculations concerning India--Increase | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034439 | of the Moon's attraction--Appearance of the Moon --They land on the Moon. . Some account of Morosofia, and its chief city, Alamatua --Singular dresses of the Lunar ladies--Religious self-denial--Glonglim miser and spendthrift. . Physical peculiarities of the Moon--Celestial phenomena --Farther description of the Lunarians--National prejudice--Lightness of bodies--The Brahmin carries Atterley to sup with a philosopher-- His character and opinions. . | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034440 | A celebrated physician: his ingenious theories in physics: his mechanical inventions--The feather-hunting Glonglim. . The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the finger nails: his visiters--Another philosopher, who judged of the character by the hair--The fortune-teller duped--Predatory warfare. . The travellers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great projector: his breed of cattle: his apparatus for cooking--He is taken dangerously ill. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034441 | . Lunarian physicians: their consultation--While they dispute the patient recovers--The travellers visit the celebrated teacher Lozzi Pozzi. . Election of the Numnoonce, or town-constable-- Violence of parties--Singular institution of the Syringe Boys--The prize-fighters--Domestic manufactures. . Description of the Happy Valley--The laws, customs, and manners of the Okalbians--Theory of population --Rent--System of government. . Further account of Okalbia--The Field of Roses-- | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034442 | Curious superstition concerning that flower--The pleasures of smell traced to association, by a Glonglim philosopher. . Atterley goes to the great monthly fair--Its various exhibitions; difficulties--Preparations to leave the Moon--Curiosities procured by Atterley--Regress to the Earth. . The Brahmin gives Atterley a history of his life. . The Brahmin's story continued--The voyage concluded --Atterley and the Brahmin separate--Atterley arrives in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034443 | New-York. Appendix: Anonymous Review of _A Voyage to the Moon,_ reprinted from _The American Quarterly Review_ No. (March ) APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. Having, by a train of fortunate circumstances, accomplished a voyage, of which the history of mankind affords no example; having, moreover, exerted every faculty of body and mind, to make my adventures useful to my countrymen, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034444 | even to mankind, by imparting to them the acquisition of secrets in physics and morals, of which they had not formed the faintest conception,--I flattered myself that both in the character of traveller and public benefactor, I had earned for myself an immortal name. But how these fond, these justifiable hopes have been answered, the following narrative will show. On | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034445 | my return to this my native State, as soon as it was noised abroad that I had met with extraordinary adventures, and made a most wonderful voyage, crowds of people pressed eagerly to see me. I at first met their inquiries with a cautious silence, which, however, but sharpened their curiosity. At length I was visited by a near relation, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034446 | with whom I felt less disposed to reserve. With friendly solicitude he inquired "how much I had made by my voyage;" and when he was informed that, although I had added to my knowledge, I had not improved my fortune, he stared at me a while, and remarking that he had business at the Bank, as well as an appointment | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034447 | on 'Change, suddenly took his leave. After this, I was not much interrupted by the tribe of inquisitive idlers, but was visited principally by a few men of science, who wished to learn what I could add to their knowledge of nature. To this class I was more communicative; and when I severally informed them that I had actually been | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034448 | to the Moon, some of them shrugged their shoulders, others laughed in my face, and some were angry at my supposed attempt to deceive them; but all, with a single exception, were incredulous. It was to no purpose that I appealed to my former character for veracity. I was answered, that travelling had changed my morals, as it had changed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034449 | other people's. I asked what motives I could have for attempting to deceive them. They replied, the love of distinction--the vanity of being thought to have seen what had been seen by no other mortal; and they triumphantly asked me in turn, what motives Raleigh, and Riley, and Hunter, and a hundred other travellers, had for their misrepresentations. Finding argument | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034450 | thus unavailing, I produced visible and tangible proofs of the truth of my narrative. I showed them a specimen of moonstone. They asserted that it was of the same character as those meteoric stones which had been found in every part of the world, and that I had merely procured a piece of one of these for the purpose of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034451 | deception. I then exhibited some of what I considered my most curious Lunar plants: but this made the matter worse; for it so happened, that similar ones were then cultivated in Mr. Prince's garden at Flushing. I next produced some rare insects, and feathers of singular birds: but persons were found who had either seen, or read, or heard of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034452 | similar insects and birds in Hoo-Choo, or Paraguay, or Prince of Wales's Island. In short, having made up their minds that what I said was not true, they had an answer ready for all that I could urge in support of my character; and those who judged most christianly, defended my veracity at the expense of my understanding, and ascribed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034453 | my conduct to partial insanity. There was, indeed, a short suspension to this cruel distrust. An old friend coming to see me one day, and admiring a beautiful crystal which I had brought from the Moon, insisted on showing it to a jeweller, who said that it was an unusually hard stone, and that if it were a diamond, it | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034454 | would be worth upwards of , dollars. I know not whether the mistake that ensued proceeded from my friend, who is something of a wag, or from one of the lads in the jeweller's shop, who, hearing a part of what his master had said, misapprehended the rest; but so it was, that the next day I had more visiters | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034455 | than ever, and among them my kinsman, who was kind enough to stay with me, as if he enjoyed my good fortune, until both the Exchange and the Banks were closed. On the same day, the following paragraph appeared in one of the morning prints: "We understand that our enterprising and intelligent traveller, JOSEPH ATTERLEY, Esquire, has brought from his | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034456 | Lunar Expedition, a diamond of extraordinary size and lustre. Several of the most experienced jewellers of this city have estimated it at from , to , dollars; and some have gone so far as to say it would be cheap at half a million. We have the authority of a near relative of that gentleman for asserting, that the satisfactory | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034457 | testimonials which he possesses of the correctness of his narrative, are sufficient to satisfy the most incredulous, and to silence malignity itself." But this gleam of sunshine soon passed away. Two days afterwards, another paragraph appeared in the same paper, in these words: "We are credibly informed, that the supposed diamond of the _famous_ traveller to the Moon, turns out | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034458 | to be one of those which are found on Diamond Island, in Lake George. We have heard that Mr. A----y means to favour the public with an account of his travels, under the title of 'Lunarian Adventures;' but we would take the liberty of recommending, that for _Lunarian_, he substitute _Lunatic_." Thus disappointed in my expectations, and assailed in my | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034459 | character, what could I do but appeal to an impartial public, by giving them a circumstantial detail of what was most memorable in my adventures, that they might judge, from intrinsic evidence, whether I was deficient either in soundness of understanding or of moral principle? But let me first bespeak their candour, and a salutary diffidence of themselves, by one | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034460 | or two well-authenticated anecdotes. During the reign of Louis the XIVth, the king of Siam having received an ambassador from that monarch, was accustomed to hear, with wonder and delight, the foreigner's descriptions of his own country: but the minister having one day mentioned, that in France, water, at one time of the year, became a solid substance, the Siamese | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034461 | prince indignantly exclaimed,--"Hold, sir! I have listened to the strange things you have told me, and have hitherto believed them all; but now when you wish to persuade me that water, which I know as well as you, can become hard, I see that your purpose is to deceive me, and I do not believe a word you have uttered." | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034462 | But as the present patriotic preference for home-bred manufactures, may extend to anecdotes as well as to other productions, a story of domestic origin may have more weight with most of my readers, than one introduced from abroad. The chief of a party of Indians, who had visited Washington during Mr. Jefferson's presidency, having, on his return home, assembled his | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034463 | tribe, gave them a detail of his adventures; and dwelling particularly upon the courteous treatment the party had received from their "Great Father," stated, among other things, that he had given them ice, though it was then mid-summer. His countrymen, not having the vivacity of our ladies, listened in silence till he had ended, when an aged chief stepped forth, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034464 | and remarked that he too, when a young man, had visited their Great Father Washington, in New-York, who had received him as a son, and treated him with all the delicacies that his country afforded, but had given him no ice. "Now," added the orator, "if any man in the world could have made ice in the summer, it was | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034465 | Washington; and if he could have made it, I am sure he would have given it to me. Tustanaggee is, therefore, a liar, and not to be believed." In both these cases, though the argument seemed fair, the conclusion was false; for had either the king or the chief taken the trouble to satisfy himself of the fact, he might | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034466 | have found that his limited experience had deceived him. It is unquestionably true, that if travellers sometimes impose on the credulity of mankind, they are often also not believed when they speak the truth. Credulity and scepticism are indeed but different names for the same hasty judgment on insufficient evidence: and, as the old woman readily assented that there might | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034467 | be "mountains of sugar and rivers of rum," because she had seen them both, but that there were "fish which could fly," she never would believe; so thousands give credit to Redheiffer's patented discovery of perpetual motion, because they had beheld his machine, and question the existence of the sea-serpent, because they have not seen it. I would respectfully remind | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034468 | that class of my readers, who, like the king, the Indian, or the old woman, refuse to credit any thing which contradicts the narrow limits of their own observation, that there are "more secrets in nature than are dreamt of in their philosophy;" and that upon their own principles, before they have a right to condemn me, they should go | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034469 | or send to the mountains of Ava, for some of the metal with which I made my venturous experiment, and make one for themselves. As to those who do not call in question my veracity, but only doubt my sanity, I fearlessly appeal from their unkind judgment to the sober and unprejudiced part of mankind, whether, what I have stated | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034470 | in the following pages, is not consonant with truth and nature, and whether they do not there see, faithfully reflected from the Moon, the errors of the learned on Earth, and "the follies of the wise?" JOSEPH ATTERLEY. _Long-Island, September_, . VOYAGE TO THE MOON. . _Atterley's birth and education--He makes a voyage--Founders off the Burman coast--Adventures in that Empire--Meets | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034471 | with a learned Brahmin from Benares._ Being about to give a narrative of my singular adventures to the world, which, I foresee, will be greatly divided about their authenticity, I will premise something of my early history, that those to whom I am not personally known, may be better able to ascertain what credit is due to the facts which | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034472 | rest only on my own assertion. I was born in the village of Huntingdon, on Long-Island, on the 11th day of May, . Joseph Atterley, my father, formerly of East Jersey, as it was once called, had settled in this place about a year before, in consequence of having married my mother, Alice Schermerhorn, the only daughter of a snug | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034473 | Dutch farmer in the neighbourhood. By means of the portion he received with my mother, together with his own earnings, he was enabled to quit the life of a sailor, to which he had been bred, and to enter into trade. After the death of his father-in-law, by whose will he received a handsome accession to his property, he sought, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034474 | in the city of New-York, a theatre better suited to his enlarged capital. He here engaged in foreign trade; and, partaking of the prosperity which then attended American commerce, he gradually extended his business, and finally embarked in our new branch of traffic to the East Indies and China. He was now very generally respected, both for his wealth and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034475 | fair dealing; was several years a director in one of the insurance offices; was president of the society for relieving the widows and orphans of distressed seamen; and, it is said, might have been chosen alderman, if he had not refused, on the ground that he did not think himself qualified. My father was not one of those who set | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034476 | little value on earning, from their own consciousness of not possessing it: on the contrary, he would often remark, that as he felt the want of a liberal education himself, he was determined to bestow one on me. I was accordingly, at an early age, put to a grammar school of good repute in my native village, the master of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034477 | which, I believe, is now a member of Congress; and, at the age of seventeen, was sent to Princeton, to prepare myself for some profession. During my third year at that place, in one of my excursions to Philadelphia, and for which I was always inventing pretexts, I became acquainted with one of those faces and forms which, in a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034478 | youth of twenty, to see, admire, and love, is one and the same thing. My attentions were favourably received. I soon became desperately in love; and, in spite of the advice of my father and entreaties of my mother, who had formed other schemes for me nearer home, I was married on the anniversary of my twenty-first year. It was | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034479 | not until the first trance of bliss was over, that I began to think seriously on the course of life I was to pursue. From the time that my mind had run on love and matrimony, I had lost all relish for serious study; and long before that time, I had felt a sentiment bordering on contempt for the pursuits | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034480 | of my father. Besides, he had already taken my two younger brothers into the counting-house with him. I therefore prevailed on my indulgent parent, with the aid of my mother's intercession, to purchase for me a neat country-seat near Huntingdon, which presented a beautiful view of the Sound, and where, surrounded by the scenes of my childhood, I promised myself | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034481 | to realise, with my Susanna, that life of tranquil felicity which fancy, warmed by love, so vividly depicts. If we did not meet with all that we had expected, it was because we had expected too much. The happiest life, like the purest atmosphere, has its clouds as well as its sunshine; and what is worse, we never fully know | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034482 | the value of the one, until we have felt the inconvenience of the other. In the cultivation of my farm--in educating our children, a son and two daughters, in reading, music, painting--and in occasional visits to our friends in New-York and Philadelphia, seventeen years glided swiftly and imperceptibly away; at the end of which time death, in depriving me of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034483 | an excellent wife, made a wreck of my hopes and enjoyments. For the purpose of seeking that relief to my feelings which change of place only could afford, I determined to make a sea voyage; and, as one of my father's vessels was about to sail for Canton, I accordingly embarked on board the well-known ship the _Two Brothers_, captain | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034484 | Thomas, and left Sandy-hook on the 5th day of June, , having first placed my three children under the care of my brother William. I will not detain the reader with a detail of the first incidents of our voyage, though they were sufficiently interesting at the time they occurred, and were not wanting in the usual variety. We had, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034485 | in singular succession, dead calms and fresh breezes, stiff gales and sudden squalls; saw sharks, flying-fish, and dolphins; spoke several vessels: had a visit from Neptune when we crossed the Line, and were compelled to propitiate his favour with some gallons of spirits, which he seems always to find a very agreeable change from sea water; and touched at Table | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034486 | Bay and at Madagascar. On the whole, our voyage was comparatively pleasant and prosperous, until the 24th of October; when, off the mouths of the Ganges, after a fine clear autumnal day, just about sunset, a small dark speck was seen in the eastern horizon by our experienced and watchful captain, who, after noticing it for a few moments, pronounced | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034487 | that we should have a hurricane. The rapidity with which this speck grew into a dense cloud, and spread itself in darkness over the heavens, as well as the increasing swell of the ocean before we felt the wind, soon convinced us he was right. No time was lost in lowering our topmasts, taking double reefs, and making every thing | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034488 | snug, to meet the fury of the tempest. I thought I had already witnessed all that was terrific on the ocean; but what I had formerly seen, had been mere child's play compared with this. Never can I forget the impression that was made upon me by the wild uproar of the elements. The smooth, long swell of the waves | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034489 | gradually changed into an agitated frothy surface, which constant flashes of lightning presented to us in all its horror; and in the mean time the wind whistled through the rigging, and the ship creaked as if she was every minute going to pieces. About midnight the storm was at its height, and I gave up all for lost. The wind, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034490 | which first blew from the south-west, was then due south, and the sailors said it began to abate a little before day: but I saw no great difference until about three in the afternoon; soon after which the clouds broke away, and showed us the sun setting in cloudless majesty, while the billows still continued their stupendous rolling, but with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034491 | a heavy movement, as if, after such mighty efforts, they were seeking repose in the bosom of their parent ocean. It soon became almost calm; a light western breeze barely swelled our sails, and gently wafted us to the land, which we could faintly discern to the north-east. Our ship had been so shaken in the tempest, and was so | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034492 | leaky, that captain Thomas thought it prudent to make for the first port we could reach. At dawn we found ourselves in full view of a coast, which, though not personally known to the captain, he pronounced by his charts to be a part of the Burmese Empire, and in the neighbourhood of Mergui, on the Martaban coast. The leak | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034493 | had now increased to an alarming extent, so that we found it would be impossible to carry the ship safe into port. We therefore hastily threw our clothes, papers, and eight casks of silver, into the long-boat; and before we were fifty yards from the ship, we saw her go down. Some of the underwriters in New York, as I | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034494 | have since learnt, had the conscience to contend that we left the ship sooner than was necessary, and have suffered themselves to be sued for the sums they had severally insured. It was a little after midday when we reached the town, which is perched on a high bluff, overlooking the coasts, and contains about a thousand houses, built of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034495 | bamboo, and covered with palm leaves. Our dress, appearance, language, and the manner of our arrival, excited great surprise among the natives, and the liveliest curiosity; but with these sentiments some evidently mingled no very friendly feelings. The Burmese were then on the eve of a rupture with the East India Company, a fact which we had not before known; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034496 | and mistaking us for English, they supposed, or affected to suppose, that we belonged to a fleet which was about to invade them, and that our ship had been sunk before their eyes, by the tutelar divinity of the country. We were immediately carried before their governor, or chief magistrate, who ordered our baggage to be searched, and finding that | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034497 | it consisted principally of silver, he had no doubt of our hostile intentions. He therefore sent all of us, twenty-two in number, to prison, separating, however, each one from the rest. My companions were released the following spring, as I have since learnt, by the invading army of Great Britain; but it was my ill fortune (if, indeed, after what | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034498 | has since happened, I can so regard it) to be taken for an officer of high rank, and to be sent, the third day afterwards, far into the interior, that I might be more safely kept, and either used as a hostage or offered for ransom, as circumstances should render advantageous. The reader is, no doubt, aware that the Burman | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000034499 | Empire lies beyond the Ganges, between the British possessions and the kingdom of Siam; and that the natives nearly assimilate with those of Hindostan, in language, manners, religion, and character, except that they are more hardy and warlike. I was transported very rapidly in a palanquin, (a sort of decorated litter,) carried on the shoulders of four men, who, for | 60 | gutenberg |
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