Among the grateful recollection of Lee we must not omit the
alms-house, chapel, and school-house founded by C. Boone, Esq. in
1638.

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THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.


THE VICTIMS OF SUSCEPTIBILITY.


_BY A MODERN PYTHAGOREAN._


Fortune, it has been truly said, is blind, and the same thing may be
alleged of nature; for while there are some to whom the latter goddess
has denied the commonest gifts, either of person or intellect, she
has bestowed the most splendid upon others, with a prodigality which
astonishes and perplexes the world. A beautiful person, and genius
almost superhuman, fell to the share of Milton; nor can it be doubted,
that in these respects the blind goddess was equally kind to the bard
of Avon, whose presence, even judging from the imperfect, and somewhat
apocryphal likenesses handed down to us, was noble to behold, while
his genius more resembled that of a superior nature than of a
human being. The same remark applies to the beautiful, the divine
Raphael,--nor less to Tasso, and various others, whom we might easily