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of quick sensibility sees constantly evolving. This 

 research j therefore, as far as concerned the individual, 

 might be as worthy and as honourable as the occupa- 

 tion of tracing obscurities in a dead language: but 

 whatever may be Dr. Adams's merit, or whatever 

 may have been his gratification^ they were to himself 

 alone ; no one partook of his enjoyment, no one has 

 been benefited by this appropriation of his time : yet 

 a learned commentator, however numerous his ab- 

 surdities, may amuse or entertain some portion of 

 mankind; hence the naturalist who thus spends his 

 time in rustic solitude is dismissed with contempt, 

 while he who is only versed in Synonymes is treated 

 with respect. 



We value men by the use they are of to us, not 

 to themselves : our happiness depends upon a recipro- 

 cal communication of benefits, and he who in any way 

 acts in hostility to this principle must not be surprized 

 to find, that he contracts the circle of his friends. 



To appropriate with discrimination our time, our 

 fortune, or our talents, with judgment suited to the 

 occasion, is the criterion of a sound and healthy mind; 

 and whoever employs either to obtain an object less 

 worthy than the means, inevitably barters for his 

 personal gratification, a proportion of his character in 

 the estimation of mankind. 



COMMON SPEEDWELL. Veronica officinalis 

 This plant is a native of Europe on dry sandy pas- 

 tures and heaths ; not uncommon in Endand. It 



