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f.nd broke clods, and took ftones off the lands; though, he fays, his 

 neighbours laughed at him 



glebas et faxa moventem |. 



For my own part, I know no exercife more pleafant than fome 

 country works, particularly the work of the hay harveft, of which 

 I frequently partake. Befides this, there is the natural exercife 

 of walking, and alfo that of riding. Walking is a pleafant ex- 

 ercife, and the moft natural of all exercifes ; but 1 know no ex- 

 ercife more pleafant than a gentle trot or canter of a horfe of 

 blood. As to hunting, or hard riding, ufed conftantly by way of 

 exercife, it is w'hat I do not approve of, as it is too violent and 

 employs too much time. Such violent exercifes were very pro- 

 per for the antient athlets, or the people of Sparta, who applied to 

 no arts or fciences; but the occupations, 1 recommend, are the occu- 

 pations of the mind, by which only men can be happy in this life 

 and the life to come; and thefe occupations are philolophy, and the 

 liigheft part of it, theology, or, in other words, religion. 



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