do, require expensive dresses and facili under trifling pretexts and frivolous p make long visits to families supposed t and more favorable appliances for show a have; and thus their honored parents, a are slighted, neglected, and deserted; abandoned and desecrated. The object of educating children, w given to them at boarding-schools, if it c give them a distaste for their homes, a temptuous disposition for their relatio qualify them to improve the advantag blessings and comforts of home. The notion is too frequently assumed been to school, particularly at boarding posed advantage or refinement has giv exempted from the rustic and common domestic life; and if this propensity is rebellion, contempt of parental authorit and sometimes ultimate ruin. The real object of this pernicious p love of novelty and vapid indulgence. A disrelish for home and honest ind display, company, fashionable particip match-making, principally stimulate fen excursions. It is forgotten that by these forbeara pers, and propensities are without pro purity of their principles is exposed tions. They should be taught that the u ties of their own homes, under the w protection, is a realm of security for fe spoiler dares not come; that this is the ap sphere for preliminating honorable marri can be misled or deceived; and that the his sober, calm, and dependent sincerity And they should learn that their affec are at temp impli arenta ere the allowe o suit ntee fir ICOL patio by any other visits than those of mere ceremony, ou sphere of her relations and family. Just in proportion as she treats with attention and her own kindred will she be esteemed by persons of spectability, and secure to herself the proper and suitable tunities of safe and honorable marriage. There is no occasion for an incessant and tumultuou course with strangers; unnecessary and sometimes da intimacies are formed by it; no good and much evil m from it. Protracted visits with strangers blunt mode courage flirtation, pride, extravagance, gadding in and Clate and unseasonable hours, loud and rude conversatio deportment, flinging off hats and over-clothes upon the ture in the best rooms, and using them for the untim noisy visits of transient acquaintances, who are wholly u perhaps to the family thus disturbed. It is a false notion of hospitality to encourage thes cious indulgences, which would not be attempted at ho throws young ladies loose to their worst propensities, u dangerous mantle of respectability. Almost all the seductions of females, married and occur from home, or in the absence of their husbands, | and brothers. This exciting and critical period of life—when the are impregnable, when all the mental and animal facul gushing into puberty, without experience, and prom unbounded confidence and self-will-most eminently the vigilant eye of parental constraint. Thousands of males and females have practiced de from home, as to their fortunes, birth, rank, and conn which there would have been no temptation or opport perpetrate at home; and thousands have made shipy their marriages and character by these pernicious cont for imposition and fraud. No man or woman should think of taking a husband from the swarm of sunshine butterflies and moonligh worms that transiently floats before the youthful and be fancy. H and promiscuous gatherings, matches ar the influences of burning passions, or followed by inevitable disaster, and a to both sides. There is no period of life that furni tributions to mental happiness as intell age. The helplessness of infancy, the per experiments of maturity, and the anxie looked back upon with calm and profit the richest conception of social interco and love so cheerfully and universally a amiable old age. How much there is of the past for tions, and of the future for solemn med Millions born with us have perished and shame, from all which we have esc blessed with parental tenderness, early culture, not afforded to those whose li gloom of the past. If these merciful providences have judgment and morality, and thus secu lives, there is infinite occasion for joy a The exciting irritations of our wa gone; no more lust of the flesh to res to contend with; no more burning wra revenge to curb; no restless ambition avarice to devour the heart; the consu sions has gone out, and the spiritual a mind are prepared for refined and eleva The baffled conscience, perplexed by appetites, no longer disturbs our dream souls with remorse. The past has ta ments of wisdom, and a quick capacity tical solemnities; how that the animal i and destructive, that our wants are f the substantial foundations of human age, there are most mercifully furnished, and never these benign and refreshing assurances. If there has been a resolute resistance to tempt sunset of life, which is the day-dawn of eternity, will and rapturous; but if the conscience has been force infidelity and guilt, the spasmodic and impotent 1 bined with a constant dread of death, will banish torture the soul with overwhelming horrors and desp There is an immense number of persons whose mor ties and mental vacillation render them unsteady, and dangerous. upon They agitate the peace and disturb the repose of so it grievous burthens by their wanton and throw As producers of public subsistence, they are wholl and as profligate consumers of its supplies, they a weight. They excite and mislead the ignorant and though waste the time and the means of the well-disposed a trious by artful demonstrations of wit and learning, feuds, and skillful appeals to the credulity and restles of men. There are two classes of these frivolous and visiona siasts; those who act under the influence of ignoran fatuation, and those who are prompted by sordid an motives. The first reject and deny the truth of all the settl society. They will not consent to improve upon the e wisdom and sober experience of ages; but obstinately and resolutely struggle to demolish them. The arduous researches and successful scrutiny by formation and inherent elements of the globe have b tained are presumptuously challenged by an absurd posterous system of pedagogue astronomy, denying tained laws of celestial motion, and converting all t into oblong revolving cylinders. All the critical experience and practical wisdom of superseded by a system of ridiculous quackery, pro NICHOLS, who says of them as follows: "CONTORTIONS OF INSPIR "Bayle says, there may be, and somet ecstatic grimaces; but those who boast of out evincing by the countenance, or e brain is disordered, and without doing an ral, ought to be infinitely more suspected who, from time to time, fall into strong Sibyls did in a greater or less degree."and Arminianism Compared, p. 264. Another school affect to slur and deri ture and science of this age, by contrastin gar ballads, coarse morals, and ignorance insinuate that a superstitious belief in warms the imagination, and inspires the so conceptions than the dull mental apprecia can accomplish. They would discharge the obscene an of a dark age upon the better morals an this age. This is a prevalent propensity even wit judgments have not been corrected by the c of an intercourse with the practical affairs By the "Evening Bulletin," MR. DAN said, in a lecture delivered by him in Phil of November, 1849, that "In the ballad age, subjects that were form. Hence we have the rhyming chro ings as sluggish as a marsh stream, and little bird oft alights and sings. The old are always natural, and are interspersed exquisite thoughts. "The society of that time was more ali present. There are, it is true, more read a wretched race between time and min |