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Envy.
pleasing recollections of the past , it checks the fervour that should attend on present associations , and dims the brightest anticipations of the future . That to which others look as the counterpoise to all this world ' s ills , who can ancl clo find a ray of sunlight illumine the centre of their domestic loves , when all around is dark ancl lowering , to tlie envious man becomes not the resting place , but the tomb of his affections ; for his thoughts are ever engaged in the survey , not of what lie himself
possesses , but of that which others enjoy . He has no private friendships ; for his mind is a stranger to the finer ancl more exalted feelings , ivhich first creating an unison of sympathies and desires afterwards extend those sympathies ancl purify those desires . His soul responds not to the appeal of misery , even though he be a witness to one of those throes which sometimes sweep across the heart strings , as it in vain attempts again to realize the joys that ha velong since sunk into the womb of oblivion . As a member of the great body of society , that which to others is a high source of enjoyment , to hirn is fraught with pangs unutterable ; for he turns with loathing from ,
" U h . lfc ' er adorns The princT-Iv dome , the column an . ' , the arch . The bieathing marbles and the sculpture , ! gold ;" makes himself the standard of all supreme good , ancl bids advancing knowledge retrace her onward march , for " thus far shalt thou go and no farther . " We love to see man great in the power which intelligence confers upon him , elevating humanity , thus uniting earth to heaven ; and we deli g ht
to see his spirit as , " She springs aloft with elevated pride , A ! ovj the tingling luassof io-. v de . sires . That bind the fluttering crowd ; and angel wing'd The heights of science and ol" \ irtue gains , Where all is calm and clear . " not so is it with him ;—" Base envy w ithers at another ' s joy . And hates ihrtt excellence it cannot reach . "
He has no hopes , no fears , no sympathies in unison with his fellowman ; ancl thus in the midst of a world , teeming with all that is great , and joyous , ancl lovely , he is an isolated , a miserable being , "without the merit to deserve renown , or the magnanimity to despise it . " He breathes and luxuriates only amidst forms and shapes as dark ancl forbidding as the passions which pervade his mind , until ,
" Iforn-. r , despair , Hatred , antl wicked envy ; foes to all The works of nature antl the gifts of heaven , " become a part and parcel of his being . Yet he has his delights and his joys : but his is an alien joy , ancl his delight is another ' s woe . The mind shrinks from the contemplation of the dark catalogue of ills which present themselves , when we would tell his pleasures : —the heart bleeding as the hope which
it had long time cherished , and continued succession of circumstances had confirmed the realization of , blighted in the very moment of anticipated possession : —the bitter pang of disappointment succeeding the mighty effort to ameliorate man ' s sufferings or extend . his usefulness : the chilling blight of suspicion awaiting the emulous ambition to precede man in the inquiry of that which would raise ancl ennoble him : —and , as the capacious soul spurning antiquated precedent would remove the mass of rubbish accumulating for ages , deforming instead of beautifying our system , overpowered by the venal shout of " innovation ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Envy.
pleasing recollections of the past , it checks the fervour that should attend on present associations , and dims the brightest anticipations of the future . That to which others look as the counterpoise to all this world ' s ills , who can ancl clo find a ray of sunlight illumine the centre of their domestic loves , when all around is dark ancl lowering , to tlie envious man becomes not the resting place , but the tomb of his affections ; for his thoughts are ever engaged in the survey , not of what lie himself
possesses , but of that which others enjoy . He has no private friendships ; for his mind is a stranger to the finer ancl more exalted feelings , ivhich first creating an unison of sympathies and desires afterwards extend those sympathies ancl purify those desires . His soul responds not to the appeal of misery , even though he be a witness to one of those throes which sometimes sweep across the heart strings , as it in vain attempts again to realize the joys that ha velong since sunk into the womb of oblivion . As a member of the great body of society , that which to others is a high source of enjoyment , to hirn is fraught with pangs unutterable ; for he turns with loathing from ,
" U h . lfc ' er adorns The princT-Iv dome , the column an . ' , the arch . The bieathing marbles and the sculpture , ! gold ;" makes himself the standard of all supreme good , ancl bids advancing knowledge retrace her onward march , for " thus far shalt thou go and no farther . " We love to see man great in the power which intelligence confers upon him , elevating humanity , thus uniting earth to heaven ; and we deli g ht
to see his spirit as , " She springs aloft with elevated pride , A ! ovj the tingling luassof io-. v de . sires . That bind the fluttering crowd ; and angel wing'd The heights of science and ol" \ irtue gains , Where all is calm and clear . " not so is it with him ;—" Base envy w ithers at another ' s joy . And hates ihrtt excellence it cannot reach . "
He has no hopes , no fears , no sympathies in unison with his fellowman ; ancl thus in the midst of a world , teeming with all that is great , and joyous , ancl lovely , he is an isolated , a miserable being , "without the merit to deserve renown , or the magnanimity to despise it . " He breathes and luxuriates only amidst forms and shapes as dark ancl forbidding as the passions which pervade his mind , until ,
" Iforn-. r , despair , Hatred , antl wicked envy ; foes to all The works of nature antl the gifts of heaven , " become a part and parcel of his being . Yet he has his delights and his joys : but his is an alien joy , ancl his delight is another ' s woe . The mind shrinks from the contemplation of the dark catalogue of ills which present themselves , when we would tell his pleasures : —the heart bleeding as the hope which
it had long time cherished , and continued succession of circumstances had confirmed the realization of , blighted in the very moment of anticipated possession : —the bitter pang of disappointment succeeding the mighty effort to ameliorate man ' s sufferings or extend . his usefulness : the chilling blight of suspicion awaiting the emulous ambition to precede man in the inquiry of that which would raise ancl ennoble him : —and , as the capacious soul spurning antiquated precedent would remove the mass of rubbish accumulating for ages , deforming instead of beautifying our system , overpowered by the venal shout of " innovation ,