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be no occafion, through the whole extent of this 

 vaft enclofure, which I fuppofe to be, at lead, a 

 mile and a half in diameter, for the application of 

 the line, nor for digging up the ground, nor for 

 grafs-plots, nor for trees cut into fliape, and fan- 

 taflically trimmed, nor for any thing refembling 

 what is to be feen in our gardens. For a fimilar 

 reafon, I would have no Latin infcriptions, nor 

 mythological exprefïions, nor any thing that fa- 

 voured of the Academy. Still lefs would 1 admit 

 of dignities, or of honours, which call to remem" 

 brance the vain ideas of the World ; I would re» 

 trench from them all the qualities which are de- 

 ftroyed by death ; no importance Hiould there be 

 affigned but to good actions, which furvive the 

 man and the citizen, and which are the only titles 

 that pofterity cares for, and that God recompenfes. 

 The infcriptions upon them (hould be fimple, and 

 be naturally fuggefted by each particular fubje(fl, 

 I would not fet the living a-talking ufelcfsly to the 

 dead, and to inanimate objedls, as is the cafe in 

 our epitaphs ; but the dead, and inanimate objeds, 

 ihould fpeak to the living, for their inftru»5lion, as 

 among the Ancients. Thefe correfpondencies of 



JOHN HAMPDEN, 



Who with great fpirit, and confummate abilities, begun a noble 

 oppofition to an arbitrary Court, in defence of the Liberties of 

 his Country j fupported them in Pailiament, and died for thetn 

 in the Field. 



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