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referved for it, and it acquires an increafe of con- 

 fidence in GOD, even from the cruelty and injuf- 

 tice of Man. It was virtue that fupported, in 

 every fituation of life, an Antoninus, a Socrates, an 

 EpiBetus, a Fenelon ; that rendered them, at once, 

 the happieft, and the moft refpedable of Man- 

 kind. 



If, on the one hand. Nature has eftabliflied con- 

 trails, in all works, on the other, (he has deduced 

 from them harmonies which re- unite them all 

 again. It would appear that, having fixed upon a 

 model, it was her intention to communicate to all 

 places a participation in it's beauty. The light and 

 diik of the Sun are, accordingly, refleâed a thou- 

 fand different ways, by the planets in the heavens, 

 by the parhelions and rainbow in the clouds, by 

 the Aurora-borealis in the ices of the North ; in a 

 word, by the refradions of the Atmofphere, the 

 reflexes of the waters, and the fpecular reflexions 

 of mofl: bodies on the Earth. The iflands, in the 

 midft of the Ocean, reprefent the mountainous 

 forms of the Continent; and the mediterranean 

 Seas and Lakes in thebofom of mountains, repre- 

 fent the vaft plains of the mighty Deep. 



Trees, in the climate of India, affed the port of 

 herbs ; and the herbs in our gardens that of trees. 

 A multitude of flowers feem modelled after the rofe 



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