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fary. The examination of thefe few principal 

 trees will fhew how confequential a part, the 

 fpray is, in fixing the character of the tree. 

 There is as much difference in the fpray, as, 

 there is in the foliage, or in any other par- 

 ticular. At the fame time, if a painter be 

 accurate, in a certain degree^ in his delineation 

 of fome of the more capital trees -, in others, 

 his accuracy is of little confequence : nay an 

 endeavour at precifion would be ftiff, and 

 pedantic. 



In the fpray of the four fpecies of trees juft 

 mentioned, and I doubt not, in that of all 



perifliing forms of nature, but that men, like trees, are fubjeft to 

 death. 



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Debemur morti nos, noftraque 



Better inftrufted, learn thou a nobler leffon. Learn, that that 

 God, who with the blaft of winter fhrivels the tree, and with 

 the breezes of fpring reftores it, offers it to thee as an emblem 

 of thy hopes. The fame God prefides over the natural, and 

 moral world. His works are uniform. The truths, which 

 nature teaches, as far as they go, are the truths of revelation 

 alfo. It is written in both th'efe books, that, that power, 

 which revives the tree, will revive thee alfo, like it, with in- 

 reaflng perfection. 



