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horrible tempefts of Cape-Horn, fometimes by 

 that of the dances of the happy Illanders of the 

 South-Seas. 



Not only every thing that aélually exifts, but 

 Ages paft, all contribute to their felicity. Not 

 for the Temple of Venus only did Corinth invent 

 thofe beautiful columns, rifing like palm-trees; 

 no, but to fupport the alcoves of their beds. 

 There voluptuous Art veils the light of the day 

 through taffetas of every colour ; and imitating, 

 by foftened reflexes, either of moon-light, or of 

 fun-rifing, reprefents the objeds of their loves like 

 fo many Dianas or Auroras. The art of Phidias 

 has for them produced a contrafl to female beauty, 

 in the venerable bulls of a Socrates and a Plato. 



Obfcure fcholars, by efforts of labour, which 

 nothing can remunerate, have, for them procured 

 the knowledge of the fublime geniufes, who were 

 ornaments of the World, in times nearer to the 

 Creation ; Orpheus, Zoroafler, Efop, Lokman, 

 David, Solomon, Confucius, and a multitude of 

 others, unknown even to Antiquity. It was not 

 for the Greeks, it is for them, that Homer ftill fings 

 of Heroes and of Gods, and that Virgil warbles 

 the notés of the Latin flute, which raviflied the 

 ears of the Court of Auguftus, and there rekindled 

 the love of Country and of Nature. For them it 



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