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HERE is certainly more ditference in our feelings and 

 associations with the beginning of autumn and the 

 close of it than there is between the commencement and the 

 end of any other season ; for the end of each of the three 

 preceding, if we reckon winter first, is full of hope, and the 

 commencement (except winter) full of pleasure. Autumn 

 begins gloriously ; its flowers are gorgeous in hue, and its 



