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“FOR THE PORT FOLIO . . . THE FARRGO,” The Port Folio, vol. 1 [series 1] (28 February 1801), p. 66.
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On The Port Folio see Neal L. Edgar, A History and Bibliography of American Magazines, 1810–1820 (Metuchen, 1975), pp. 217–20; Harold Milton Ellis, Joseph Dennie and His Circle: A Study in American Literature from 1792–1812 (Austin, 1915); Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741–1850 (Cambridge, 1938), pp. 223–46; Albert H. Smyth, The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors, 1741–1850 (1892; reprinted Freeport, 1970), pp. 92–151.
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Though rarely displaying it myself, I have always admired, in others, that indifference to the how and when in life, which is the first axiom in a Frenchman’s philosophy . . . When the burden of life galls us, it is in vain to curse and swear. By laughing, we shall lighten the load . . . The philosophic HUME, who practised what he preached, tells us, that such a disposition is better than an estate of ten thousand a year . . . Let us, therefore, no longer wear the straight-laced stays of systems, which cannot enable us to walk more uprightly than our unconfined neighbours. Let us no longer eat the bread of carefulness: but drink our wine with a merry heart.