tyZ STUDIES OJ NATURE. 



At the foot of a flatue of white marble, of a 

 young and beautiful woman, fitting, and wipiiig 

 her eyes, with fymptoms of gfief and joy : 



I WAS ODIOUS 



IV 



THE SIGHT OF GOD AND MAN ; 



BUT, 



MELTED INTO PENITENCE, 



/ bave made my Peace with Heaven by Contrition^ 



AND MAVK 



REPAIRED THE MISCHIEF WHICH I HAD DONE TO MEN, 



JET 



Befriending the Miferable, 



Near this might be infcribed, under that of a 

 young girl, in mean attire, employed with her dif- 

 taff and fpindle, and looking up to Heaven with 

 rapture ; 



Î HAVE LEARNED TO DESPISE 



THE FAIN DELIGHTS OF THE WORLD i 



AKD NOW 



I ENJOY HAPPINESS. 



Of thofe monuments, feme fhould exhibit no 

 other elogium, but the name fimply : fuch (hould 

 be, for example, the tomb which contained the 

 afhes of the Author of Tekmachus; or, at moft, I 



would 



