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esteemed here tO ha Ve been in ' should have hindered him 



and loved from entering farther into the account or in- 



ienmg s tructions of gardening, which he said he could 



have given, and which he seems to have so much 



esteemed and loved, by that admirable picture 



of this old man's felicity, which he draws like 



so great a master, with one stroke of a pencil in 



those four words. 



Regum aequabat opes anirnis. 

 That in the midst of these small possessions, 

 upon a few acres of barren ground, yet he equal- 

 led all the wealth and opulence of kings, in the 

 ease, content, and freedom of his mind. . 



