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thire, the king of the vailles ? Is not it's incompa- 

 rable whitenefs rendered ftill more dazzling, when 

 fpotted, as with drops of coral, by the little, fcarlet, 

 hemifpherical lady-bird, garnilhed with black 

 Ipecks, which conftantly reforts to it as an afylum? 

 Who can difcover the queen of flowers in a dried 

 rofe ? In order to it's being an objeâ:, at once, of 

 love and of philofophy, it mud be viewed when, 

 ifTuing from the cleft of a humid rock, it fliines 

 on it's native verdure, when the zephyr balances 

 it, on a Item armed with thorns; when Aurora has 

 bedewed it with her tears ; when, by it's luftre and 

 it's fragrance, it invites the hands of lovers. A 

 cantharide, fometimes, lurking in it's corolla, 

 heightens the glowing carmine, by prefenting the 

 contraft of his emerald-coloured robe j it is then 

 this flower feems to fay, that, fymbol of pleafure, 

 from her charms, and the rapidity of her decay, 

 like pleafure too, (he carries danger around her, 

 and repentance in her bofom. 



Naturalifts betray us into fl.ill wider deviations 

 from Nature, in attempting to explain, by uniform 



difcovery. This impropriety of elementary terms in the Sciences, 

 is the firft twift given to human reafon ; it is thereby put, from 

 the very firft fetting out, entirely afide from the path of Nature. 

 See Fol. II. Study XI. 



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