never before been published.— WINSLOW | Colonies! But for him this tea might WARREN. Dr Sir BOSTON, DEC. 17, 1773. - The Dye is cast! The People have passed the River and cutt away the Bridge! last Night Three Cargoes of Tea were emptied into the Harbour. This is the grandest Event which has ever yet happened Since the Controversy with Britain opened! The Sublimity of it, charms me! For my own Part I cannot express my own Sentiments of it, better than in the Words of Coll. Doane to me last Evening Balch should repeat them The worst that can happen, I think, says he in Consequence of it, will be that the Province must pay for it. Now, I think the Province may pay for it, if it is burned as easily as if it is drank and I think it is a matter of indifference whether it is drank or drowned. The Province must pay for it in either Case-But there is this difference I believe it will take them 10 years to get the Province to pay for it-if so, we shall save 10 Years Interest of the Money-whereas if it is drank it must be paid for immediately. thus He - However, He agreed with me that the Province, would never pay for it.- and also in this that the final Ruin, of our Constitution of Government and of all American Liberties, would be the certain Consequence of Suffering it to be landed. Governor Hutchinson and his Family and Friends will never have done with their good services to Great Britain & the have been saved to the East India Company. Whereas this Loss if the rest of the Colonies should follow our example, will in the opinion of many Persons bankrupt the Company. However, I dare say, that the Governors and Consignees and Custom House officers, in the other Colonies will have more Wisdom than ours have had & take effectual care that their Tea shall be sent back to England untouched-if not it will as surely be destroyed there as it has been here. Threats, Phantoms, Bugbears, by the million, will be invented and propagated among the People upon this OccasionIndividuals will be threatened with Suits and Prosecutions, Armies and Navies will be talked of, military Executions - Charters annull'd - Treason-Tryals in England and all that - But these Terrors are all but Imaginations-Yet if they should become Realities they had better be suffered, than the great Principle, of Parliamentary Taxation given up The Town of Boston was never more still and calm of a Saturday night than it was last Night. All Things were conducted with great order, Decency and perfect submission to Government.- No Doubt, We all thought the Administration in better Hands than it had been. Please to make Mrs. Adams most respectful Compliments to Mrs. Warren, and mine. I am your Friend JOHN ADAMS. A QUEEN'S SPEECH. The following speech of the Queen of Madagascar was delivered at the opening of a Memorial Church: "I thank the missionaries and the friends beyond the seas who have helped to finish this house; for completion of this stone building as a place in which to pray to, and for praising God and giving glory to Jesus, on account of the redemption he has wrought, is a thing which rejoices both me and you. But not this building alone is called a House of God,' but our hearts too; for Paul says in the Corinthians, Ye are the temples of the living God.' Therefore it rejoices my heart when we all do what we can to extend the kingdom of God upon earth; for that was commanded by Jesus Christ, saying, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.' And our friends from beyond the seas have come here and do all they can to benefit us, that we may know Jesus Christ; much OUR ENGLISH BIBLE AND ITS ANCESTORS. (An account of the Origin and Growth of the English Bible.) By Treadwell Waldron, Rector of St. Paul's Cathedral, Indianapolis. ve like s OF THE LIVING AGE Wanted. The publishers are in want of Nos. 1179 and 118cult ved respectively Jan. 5th and Jan. 12th, 1867) of THE LIVING AGE. To subscribers, or others, who will do us the favor to send us either or both of those numbers, we will return an equivalent, either in our publications or in cash, until our wants are supplied. FOR EIGHT DOLLARS, remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually for to pay commission for forwarding the money. Price of the First Series, in Cloth, 36 volumes, 90 dollars. If it be true I cannot tell 66 The sunshine and the summer showers, Or sin, or sorrow, may be mine, I cannot take the boundless good This cave of thought, this cell of prayer, From Blackwood's Magazine. fore, we should say, without the possession of it; for an apt illustration, an exquisite PERHAPS there is no intellectual gift simile, will out if it flashes into the brain. that conveys a greater sense of power There is a certain concentration in the than that of ready and felicitous illustra- matter in hand—the scene, the situation tion, or one that wins its possessor a more - which stands the writer instead of any undisputed pre-eminence. It is one of other gift, and dispenses with all ornathose points on which it may be said that ment. This, we should say, is the case all people know themselves, and are forced with Mr. Trollope, whose metaphor, when to acknowledge a superior. A man may he uses it, is from the open, acknowledged, talk nonsense and not know it, or write familiar stock of all mankind; and recommonplace in full persuasion that he is markably with Miss Austen, in whose original, or uphold his fallacies against the whole range of writings no original figure conclusions of the ablest logician; but he occurs to us, unless it be Henry Tilney's cannot help knowing when he is no hand ingenious parallel between partners in at an illustration. There is no room for matrimony and partners in a countryself-delusion or rivalry. Not only does it dance. Her experienee probably prenot come readily, but he beats his brain sented her with no example of ready illusfor it in vain. It would be a curious in-tration, and she painted men and women quiry how many men live and die, re- as she found them, making a failure when spected and useful members of society too, she tried; like Lydia Bennet, who flourwithout once hitting off a happy simile. ished her hand with its wedding-ring, and We are convinced they would immeasura- "smiled like anything;" or, adding tritebly outnumber that formidable array of ness to common dulness, as in Mr. Collins, figures telling the difference between the whose letter found favour with Mary; sexes, which causes so much anxiety in the "the idea of the olive-branch is not wholly present day. Of course it is competent to new, but I think it is well expressed." people to say that they do not care for When we say that most men are without illustration that it proves nothing the gift in question, it is obvious that we that it is a mere toy of thought," inter- mean of original illustration. Only a fering with and often perplexing the busi- poet could first invest Time with wings; ness of reason and action; but whether but we talk of the flight of time now withwe like ourselves as well without this out pretending to any share of his gift. faculty or not, it is impossible not to en- There are certain figures incorporated joy its exercise in another. We may in the language which we cannot speak treat it as a superfluity; it may lack the without using. We are all poetical by solid satisfaction of reason and demon- proxy. Such common property is the stration, and be only like the nard pistic imagery connected with sunrise and the Jeremy Taylor talks of, the perfume of dawn; sunset and twilight; sun, moon, which is very delightful when the box is stars, and comets; lightning and storm; newly broken, but the want of it is no seas, rivers, frost, and dew; the road, the trouble we are well enough without it;" path, the ladder; the rose, the lily, and but the sudden fresh fragrance is not the the violet; the dying lamp and its exless delicious while it lasts, and invigorat- tinguisher; angels, the grave; the lion, ing to the spirits. the tiger, the wolf, and the lamb; the We use the word illustration as em- eagle, the dove, and the parrot; the goose bracing the widest field, and including the and the monkey. But indeed the list of whole figurative machinery of fancy and incorporated metaphor is endless, and it, imagination-metaphor, simile, imagery, has required a real poet these several figure, comparison, impersonation in hundred years past to hit off anything fact, every method of elucidation through new out of the subjects of it. But they their agency. Of course invention may be are all capable in his hands of a sudden actively and delightfully employed without illumination, of figuring in new characany use of this charming gift, and there- ters, of imparting the surprise which is the 66 66 very essence of the illustration proper. "The weak wanton Cupid The sunbeam strikes along the world." The grandeur of the comparison when These images and epithets are all obPandemonium rose like an exhalation, vious enough as we read them, but in their never sinks to common-place. The sug place, we recognize them as the poet's gestions of what is noble, beautiful, and own coinage. There is no borrowed air familiar in nature, are really endless, how-about them. Byron tinges opening and ever the soil may seem exhausted to closing day with his own spleen and disprosaic minds, which are yet quite capable content, and makes them sentimental, of being freshened into awakened interest when he throws upon their shoulders the by a new epithet or an original collision task of making life just bearable. After a of ideas, revealing some undiscovered lovely description of sunset, with its transympathy with human feeling. Every sient glories, his own temper speaks in the poet adds something to the common stock person of Myrrha in Sardanapalus," of imagery, and so enlarges our percep"And yet tions. Shakespeare, on saluting a beautiful woman as Day of the World, quickens our sense of beauty alike in nature and in man. It needed imagination first to affix the idea of sovereignty to the morning, but it was at once adopted by the general mind "Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovran eye.” Wordsworth first endued it with "innocence," in which we own an equal fit ness "The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet." Often as the dawn comes round, we do not know that anybody has called it confident before Mr. Browning in his "Lost Leader": It dwells upon the soul, and soothes the soul, not Know not the realms where those twin genii .build the palaces, Where their fond votaries repose and breathe The fitness of a metaphor to its place may give novelty to the most familiar analogies "Put out the light, and then put out the light." When the Ancient Mariner tells his unwilling hearer, "I pass like night from land to land," he imparts to matter-of-fact "Life's night begins: let him never come back minds a newly-conceived mystery of mo to us, There would be doubt, hesitation, and pain; Forced praise on our part, the glimmer of twilights, Never glad confident morning again." tion to the most familiar of nature's phe- Or associated dew with the memory as sense of the fitness of the simile- ever a girl was made of roses, it was Hetty |