evils, and the watchful seizure of every advantage; in combining heterogeneous materials into one military body, producing a system of military and political measures, concentering universal confidence, and diffusing an influence next to magical; in comprehending a great scheme of war, pursuing a regular system of acquiring strength for his country, and wearing out the strength of his enemies. To his conduct, both military and political, may, with exact propriety, be applied the observation, which has been often made concerning his courage; that in the most hazardous situations no man ever saw his countenance change.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D.D., was born at Northampton, Mass., May 14, 1752, and died at New Haven, Conn., January 11, 1817. He graduated at Yale College in 1769, was licensed to preach and acted as chaplain in the revolutionary army from Sept. 1777, to Oct. 1778, doing much to heighten the enthusiasm of the soldiers by his popular patriotic songs. From Sept. 1795, until his death, he was President of Yale College. Dr. Dwight had great industry and research, was a sound and impressive preacher, and an able writer. Our extract is from "A discourse delivered at New Haven, Feb. 22, 1800, on the character of George Washington, Esq., at the request of the citizens, by Timothy Dwight, D.D., President of Yale College." 8vo, pp. 39. New Haven, 1800.

WILLIAM LINN.

1800.

WHEN God in his adorable providence intends to accomplish some glorious work upon earth, he provides and prepares his instruments among the children of men. Who does not see that Moses, by the manner in which he was preserved, the instruction which he received, and the habits of life to which he was inured, was fitted to lead the people of Israel? Who, that Cyrus, had we not been expressly informed, was "guided by the Lord?" The intention is frequently hidden from the persons themselves, and may not be obvious to others; though they will sometimes discern presages of future greatness. Washington was endued from his youth with a military spirit. When a stripling, like David, he encountered the enemies of his country. His first destination was to enter as a midshipman in a British vessel of war. This was happily prevented, that so, instead of the admiral, he might become the general. He gave such early and uncommon indications of heroism as occasioned public mention of him by an eminent divine, in a discourse delivered soon after Braddock's defeat. The subject was religion and patriotism. "As a remarkable instance," said he, "I may point out to the public that heroic youth Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important

service to his country.' "'*

We will not call these words prophetic, but they have been repeatedly quoted as a testimony of the budding honors of the American hero. * * * *

Learning to estimate justly all human glory, and matured by experience; accustomed to lofty conceptions, and moving always in the important spheres of life; impressed with a sense that he derived all from God, and that all should be devoted to his service; his deportment was noble, equally removed from the supercilious and the vain. Some men have been great at one time, and despicable at another; some men have performed a single great action, and never rose to the like again; but to him great actions seemed common. Some men have appeared great at the head of armies, or when surrounded by the trappings of power, and little when stripped of these, and alone; some men have withstood the storms of adversity, and been melted by the sunshine of prosperity; some men have possessed splendid public talents, and disgraced these by sordid private vices; but it is difficult to determine when and where Washington shone the brightest. It can only be said, that he was uniformly great. ✶ ✶ ✶✶ * Incomparable man! He devoted his time, his talents and his labors to our service; and he hath left his advice and his example to us, and to all generations!

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* The discourse referred to, was delivered August 17, 1755, in Hanover County, Va., and published at Philadelphia the same year, with the title, "Religion and Patriotism the constituents of a good soldier," in a note to which, p. 9, the words quoted, occur. The author, Samuel Davies, D.D., was born in New Castle County, Del., November 3, 1723, and was officiating at the time in that part of Virginia. In 1759, he succeeded Jonathan Edwards as president of the College of New Jersey, and died at Princeton, February 4, 1761.-ED.

There was in him that assemblage of qualities which constitutes real greatness; and these qualities were remarkably adapted to the conspicuous part which he was called to perform. He was not tinsel, but gold; not a pebble, but a diamond; not a meteor, but a sun. Were he compared with the sages and the heroes of antiquity, he would gain by the comparison; or rather, he would be found to be free from the blemishes, and to unite the excellencies of them all. Like Fabius he was prudent; like Hannibal he was unappalled by difficulties; like Cyrus he conciliated affection; like Cimon he was frugal; like Scipio he was chaste; like Philopemen he was humble; and like Pompey he was successful. If we compare him with characters in the sacred records, he combined the exploits of Moses and Joshua, not only by conducting us safely across the Red Sea and through the wilderness, but by bringing us into the promised land. Like David he conquered an insulting Goliah, and rose to the highest honors from an humble station; like Hezekiah he ruled; and like Josiah at his death, there is a mourning "as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon." Nor is the mourning confined to us, but extends to all the wise and the good who ever heard of his The generals whom he opposed will wrap their hilts in black, and stern Cornwallis drop a tear. *

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In the eighteenth century have flourished a number of the most eminent philosophers, historians, orators, poets, patriots, and statesmen; the close of it has been eventful and astonishing beyond all precedent. In the end of the fifteenth century, Columbus discovered this new world; in the end of the eighteenth, Washington arose to give Columbia independence and rank among the nations. To the lustre of

so many names, and to a period of such wonderful events, he joins his blaze. Memorable æra! The age of great men, the age of extraordinary revolutions, the age of Washington.

WILLIAM LINN, D.D., an eloquent Presbyterian divine, was born at Shippensburg, Pa., in 1752, and died at Albany, N. Y., January, 1808. He graduated at the College of New Jersey, in 1772, and after serving some time as chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, was pastor of a church near Shippensburg; in 1787 he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown, N. J., and shortly afterwards, settled as a collegiate pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church in New York City, where he resided twenty years. Our extract is from a "Funeral Eulogy on the death of George Washington, delivered Feb. 22, 1800, before the New York State Society of Cincinnati, by Rev. William Linn, D.D." 8vo, pp. 44. New York, 1800. Reprinted in Washingtoniana, Lancaster, 1802.