“The love of Margaret, duchess dowager of Burgundy, for a young Jew, occasions Brittany to be re-united to France, and England to be rent by civil wars.”
“A blow with a cane, being given by a German to a Genoese, who was looking at the carriage of a mortar-piece, which was broken in one of the streets of Genoa, occasions the Austrians to be driven from that city, and the republic of Genoa to recover its liberty.”
In view of such things, may we not say with a poet whose name I have forgotten—
“Think naught a trifle though it small appear,
Small sands the mountain, minutes make the year,
And trifles life; your care to trifles give,
Else you may die ere you have learned to live.”
Editorial.1
1 Some misapprehensions having arrisen, it may be as well to state that all after this word “Editorial,” is strictly what it professes to be.
To the Editor of the Southern Literary Messenger.