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lelTon, and fuch an one as the bed of us oftjn 

 want to have inculcated. 



From a partial confideration of things, we 

 are very apt to criticife what we ought to ad- 

 mire i to look upon as ufelefs what perhaps we 

 Ihould own to be of infinite advantage to us, 

 did we fee a little farther ; to be peevilh where 

 we ought to give thanks ♦, and at the fame time 

 to ridicule thofe, who employ their time and 

 thoughts in examining what we were, i. e. 

 fome of us mofl affuredly were, created and 

 appointed to lludy. In Ihort we are too apt to 

 treat the Almighty worfe than a rational man 

 would treat a good mechanic; whofe works 

 he would either thoroughly examine, or be 

 afhamed to find any fault with them. This is 

 the cffe6b of a partial confideration of nature ; 

 but he who has candor of mind and leifure to 

 look farther, will be inclined to cry out : 



How wondVous is this fcene! where all is form'd 

 With number, weight, andmeafure! alldefign'd 

 For fome great end ! where not alone the plant 

 Of llately growth ; the herb of glorious hue. 

 Or food- full fubftance ; not the laboring fteed. 

 The herd, and flock that feed us •, not the mine 

 That yields us ftores for degance, and ufe ; 



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