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Jewish Gratitude*
refrain himself from interrupting the gentleman , and said , ' Master , your money is in my house . ' Swiftly he ran out of the room , and fetched the girdle , which he had carefully saved . ' Here is your money ; count it , and you will find it exactly as you put it in the girdle . ' He then entered into a detailed account of the finding of it accidentally , and of the pains he took to trace the owner . The Jew insisted on the peasant taking the girdle with the money , and the presents which he brought
him , though the peasant would first only accept the purse and the clothing . He then built a new and larger cottage , which the Jew visited each time he went to the neighbouring fair , and over the door of which the peasant had written the following words : — " ' This cottage I was enabled to build by the assistance of a Jew , whom I saved from a watery grave . I was honest , and the Jew was generous and grateful . '"
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
LIFE . —Change is the constant feature of society . The world is like a magic lantern , or the shifting scenes of a pantomime . Ten years converts the population of schools into men and women , the young into fathers and matrons , makes and mars fortunes , and buries the last generation but one . Twenty years converts infants into lovers , and fathers and mothers ; renders youth the operative generations ; decides mens' fortunes and
' distinctions- ; converts active men into crawling drivellers , and buries all preceding generations . Thirty years raises an active generation from nonentity ; changes fascinating beauties into bearable old women ; converts lovers into grandfathers ; and buries the active generation , or reduces them to decrepitude and imbecility .
Forty years , alas ! changes the face of all society ; infants are growing old ; the bloom of youth and beauty has passed away ; two active generations have been swept from the stage of life ; names so cherished are forgotten ; and unsuspected candidates for fame have started from the exhaustless whomb of nature . Fifty years—why should any desire to retain affections from maturity for fifty years ? It is to behold a world of which you know not , and to which you are unknown . It is to live to weep for the generations long
since passed ; for lovers , for parents , for friends , in the grave . It is to see every thing turned upside down by the fickle hand of fortune and the absolute despotism of time . It is , in a word , to behold the vanity of life in all the vanities of display . " HE that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must himself pass , for every man hath need to be forgiven . " "' ESQ . ' at the end of a man ' s name is like a curl in a dog ' s tail—more for ornament than "
use . " APPLAUSE is the spur of noble minds , the end and aim of weak ones . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Jewish Gratitude*
refrain himself from interrupting the gentleman , and said , ' Master , your money is in my house . ' Swiftly he ran out of the room , and fetched the girdle , which he had carefully saved . ' Here is your money ; count it , and you will find it exactly as you put it in the girdle . ' He then entered into a detailed account of the finding of it accidentally , and of the pains he took to trace the owner . The Jew insisted on the peasant taking the girdle with the money , and the presents which he brought
him , though the peasant would first only accept the purse and the clothing . He then built a new and larger cottage , which the Jew visited each time he went to the neighbouring fair , and over the door of which the peasant had written the following words : — " ' This cottage I was enabled to build by the assistance of a Jew , whom I saved from a watery grave . I was honest , and the Jew was generous and grateful . '"
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
LIFE . —Change is the constant feature of society . The world is like a magic lantern , or the shifting scenes of a pantomime . Ten years converts the population of schools into men and women , the young into fathers and matrons , makes and mars fortunes , and buries the last generation but one . Twenty years converts infants into lovers , and fathers and mothers ; renders youth the operative generations ; decides mens' fortunes and
' distinctions- ; converts active men into crawling drivellers , and buries all preceding generations . Thirty years raises an active generation from nonentity ; changes fascinating beauties into bearable old women ; converts lovers into grandfathers ; and buries the active generation , or reduces them to decrepitude and imbecility .
Forty years , alas ! changes the face of all society ; infants are growing old ; the bloom of youth and beauty has passed away ; two active generations have been swept from the stage of life ; names so cherished are forgotten ; and unsuspected candidates for fame have started from the exhaustless whomb of nature . Fifty years—why should any desire to retain affections from maturity for fifty years ? It is to behold a world of which you know not , and to which you are unknown . It is to live to weep for the generations long
since passed ; for lovers , for parents , for friends , in the grave . It is to see every thing turned upside down by the fickle hand of fortune and the absolute despotism of time . It is , in a word , to behold the vanity of life in all the vanities of display . " HE that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must himself pass , for every man hath need to be forgiven . " "' ESQ . ' at the end of a man ' s name is like a curl in a dog ' s tail—more for ornament than "
use . " APPLAUSE is the spur of noble minds , the end and aim of weak ones . "