STUDY XIII. 255 



ther to talents than to patriotifm, and like fo many 

 others, ic will, undoubtedly, be locked up from the 

 People. 



Firft of all, I would have -it made a rule, that 

 no citizen whatever fhould be interred in the 

 church. Xenophon relates that Cyr.us^ ihe fovereign 

 Lord of the gseateft part of Alia, gave orders, at 

 his death, that his body fhould be buried in the 

 open country, under the trees, to the end that, 

 faid this great Prince, the elements of it might be 

 quickly united to thofe of Nature, and contribute 

 a-new to the formation of her beautiful Works. 

 This fentiment was worthy of the fublime foul of 

 Cyrus. But tombs in every country, efpecially the 

 tombs of great Kings, are the moft endeared of all 

 monuments to the Nations. The Savages confider 

 thofc of their anceftors as titles to the poffeffion of 

 the lands which they inhabit. " This country is 

 ** ours," fay they, " the bones of our fathers are 

 ** here laid to reft." When they are forced to 

 quit it, they dig them up with tears, and carry 

 them off with every token of refpeâ. 



The Turks ereft their tombs by the fide of the 

 high-ways, as the Romans did. The Chinefe make 

 theirs enchanted fpots. They place them in the 

 vicinity of their cities, in grottos dug out of the 

 fide of hills ,• they decorate the entrance into them 



with 



