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fentiments, which I venture to call voluptuous, I 

 muft have no projeft in hand of a pleafant walk, 

 ofvifiting, of hunting, of journeying, which, in 

 fuch circumftances, would put me into bad hu- 

 mour, from being contradided. Much lefs ought 

 our two component powers to crofs, or clafli 

 againft each other, that is, to let the fentiment of 

 infinity bear upon our mifery, by thinking that this 

 rain will never have an end ; and that of our mi- 

 fery to dwell on the phenomena of Nature, by 

 complaining that the feafons are quite deranged, 

 that order no longer reigns in the elements, and 

 thus giving into all the peevilh, inconclufive 

 reafonings, adopted by a man who is wet to the 

 ikin. In order to the enjoyment of bad weather, 

 our foul muft be travelling abroad, and the body 

 at reft. 



From the harmony of thofe two powers of our 

 conftitution it is, that the moft terrible revolutions 

 of Nature frequently intereft us more than her 

 gayeft fcenery. The volcano near Naples attradls 

 more travellers to that city, than the delicious gar- 

 dens which adorn her (hores ; the plains of Greece 

 and Italy, overfpread with ruins, more than the 

 richly cultivated lawns of England ; the pidure 

 of a tempeft, more connoifleurs than that of a 

 calm ; and the fall of a tower, more fpedators 

 than it's conftruftion. 



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