STUDY I. 



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two powerful fenfations at once, the one phyfical, 

 which increafes in proportion as you approach the 

 works of Nature ; becaufe their beauty difclofes 

 itfelf only to the eye which examines it ; the other 

 moral, which grows upon you, in proportion as 

 you retire from the monuments of Virtue, becaufe 

 to do good to men, and to be no longer within 

 their reach, is a refemblance to the Deity. 



What would it be then, were we to take a 

 glance of the general harmonies of this Globe ? 

 To dwell only on thofe which are beft known to 

 us, behold how the Sun conftantly encircles with 

 his rays one half of the Earth, while Night covers 

 the other with her (liade. How many contrafts 

 and concords refult from their ever changing op- 

 pofitions ? There is not a fingle point in the two 

 Hemifpheres, in which there does not appear, by 

 turns, a dawn, a twilight, an aurora, a noon, a 

 fetting of burnifhed gold, and a night fometimes 

 ftudded with ftars, fometimes clothed in a fable 

 mantle. 



The Seafons walk hand in hand under his eye, 

 like the hours of the day. Spring, crowned with 

 flowers, precedes his flaming car; Summer fur- 

 rounds it with her golden Iheaves ; and Autumn 

 follows it, bearing her cornucopia running over 

 with gloliy fruit. In vain would Winter and 



Night, 



