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"For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth

me sore.

"There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sin.

"For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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My wounds are corrupt: because of my foolishness.

"I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

"I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

"Lord, all my desire is before thee: and my groaning is not hid from thee.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore and kinsmen stand afar off.

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They also that seek after my life, lay snares for me : and they that seek my hurt, speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

"But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth,

"Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

"For in thee, O Lord, do I hope thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

"For I said, hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice. over me when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

"For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

"For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry

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But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

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"They also that render evil for good, are mine adversaries because I follow the thing that good is.

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"Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from

"Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation."

The car drew up under the direful machine, I shall here be brief who could dwell long on such a scene. Mr. C could hardly be said to have beheld it, though he was present. The young man was tied up, his neck was uncovered, and the rope put round it-he took one look of the earth and the sky-Alas, his heaven was at his side, and from her he was to part-He gazed on her as she stood mute and motionless beside him -he pressed her pale cheek, he kissed her long silken eye-lashes, for, weakened by sorrow, they had fallen down on her eyes-his face was covered, the car was drawn away, and in a few moments his sorrows were ended.

As soon as Mr. C―could collect his thoughts, he turned to the unhappy survivor-she still remained in the same attitude-her whole frame seemed stiffened into marble, and she was carried away in the true catalepsy of sorrow, that makes, neither resistance nor complaint.

For several years she remained in a state of pro-` found melancholy, that rendered her insensible to

every thing passing round her. From this state, she is (I think unhappily) reviving. The heart which received so rude a shock will never taste happiness, and can only, if it shakes off sorrow, settle into torpor or indifference-the earth will be without form the autumn without fruit, and the spring without fragrance. Sorrow tears, but it enlarges the heart-indifference shrivels it up. Melancholy is the repose of the soul, indif ference is its death.

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I HARDLY know a more beautiful object than a bleach-green on a fine day. Mr. C's is situated on the declivity of a hill, interspersed with trees, and watered by a pretty brook. The whiteness of the cloth presents a bright contrast to the greenness of the grass, while the murmuring stream excites the ideas of pastoral retirement rather than of the habitations of art. The manufacture of linen, may, indeed, be truly said to be a pastoral one. It is one of the most ancient, as it is one of the most beautiful. In the early ages of the

world it was the occupation

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Andromache is told by Hector, when he is tak ing his last tender leave of her,

"To hasten to her tasks at home,

To guide the spindle, and direct the loom :"

At the same time the linen manufacture had arrived at great perfection in Egypt, there the daughters of Israel learned to spin, and some of their sons to weave.-" And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen."

Woollen is the manufacture of art, and of commerce; linen, of nature, and of agriculture. In this country it still partakes of its origin; the weavers are likewise cultivators of the earth, and the great bleachers all reside in the country, and occupy considerable tracts of land. The weavers in consequence, are a hardy, vigorous, and virtu ous race of men. The English manufacturers, I am concerned to remark, are generally the reverse in all these particulars. The fair face of nature, is a volume, addressed by the Almighty to the heart of man; and when, by the nature of his occupation, he is debarred access to it, his affections become deadened, and his heart becomes corrupt.

The linen manufacture has been carried to the greatest extent it ever arrived at, in this province. Those who have been accustomed to stigmatise the Irish as indolent and lazy, will think it strange to be told that by indefatigable industry they have made their manufacture the second greatest in the world-for only to the woollen manufac ture of England, is it second. It has been supposed that the linen manufacture is not a bene, ficial one, because Ireland is a poor country-but the conclusion does not follow, even granting it to be a fact that Ireland is so. The wealth of Mexico did not make Spain rich, because her out-goings were equal to her in-comings-that manufacture must, surely, be a beneficial one, which, confined to a single province, enables Ireland to pay England such an immense sum in taxes, pensions, and, above all, in the entire income nearly of all the great landlords which is spent in England.

This trade is said to be of great antiquity in Ireland. The Phoenicians, about twelve hundred years before the Christian Era, planted colonies at Carthage and Cadiz, whence, according to the Irish historians, they passed into Ireland, and brought with them, among other useful inventions, the spindle and loom. However that may be, acts of Parliament, passed in the reign of Henry the Eighth, prove that linen was a very

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