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ers, and gravel walks, disposes me to enter it with 
the pleasing expectation of finding taste and ele- 
gant enjoyment within. I am not much -acquainted, 
with the private life of Claude de Lorraine; but I 
’ have seen some of his works; and I fhould be dis- 
appointed if J fhould hear that it was not under the 
general influence of elegance, and taste, and inno- 
cence. This is certainly the tendency of that love 
of rural beauty which characterises_his producti- 
ons ; and it is the tendency of the art which I am‘re- 
commending. But this also ought to be rather an 
amusement than a busine/s. 
Another pursuit nearly allied to this is botany. All 
“are not equally qualified for its laborious investiga- 
tions ; but those who are, would find in it an inex- 
haustible store of improving and elegant enjoyment. 
A collection of the plants in a parifh, accurately 
‘made, might throw much light on this branch of na- 
‘tural history. It is by dividing great undertakings 
‘into small paris, (when this is practicable, ) that their 
progrefs is most ‘effectually promoted. The statis- 
tical acco unt of Scotland would not have been so _ 
full and satisfactory, if this had not been done. 
But though these, Sir, be a few of the numerous _ 
ways in which a clergyman in the country may 
pafs much of his time, with pleasure to himself, and 
advantage to others; yet he ought to have other 
pursuits which he can conduct wrthim doors. In 
fhort, a clergyman ought to be a /iterary character ; 
and this cor responds best with what ought to be the 
principal businefs of his life. Metaphysics, history, 
clafsical learning, are so many roads in a most ex- 
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