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formerly discours'd,) yet it most generously com- 

 pensates the gusto ; for every fish that comes 

 cautiously by his commons, is by so much the 

 more confirmed delicious, and, if I mistake not, 

 as nutricious also. 



Now would not any man think those concep- 

 tions very sordid, to prefer the goose to the 

 gossander, and vie the hog with the hind ? It's 

 true, some hug and imbrace the vision of re- 

 mote novelties, because to fancy that distance 

 and difficulty make things rare ; so it may well 

 enough, for it makes them dear. And what 

 would it signify to a rural palat, was that palat 

 by foreign curiosities daily imposed upon ? Be- 

 sides, it's treason in the abstract, against the law 

 of bounty, for any man to imagine partiality 

 in nature, since every thing is destinated by an 

 immutable decree, to answer the primary ends 

 ordained. The great Work-master needs no con- 

 tribution from the mine to enable him to infuse 

 virtue into the creation ; nor needs he to bor- 

 row any thing from the creature, since the crea- 

 ture is only the marginal note of the universe ; 

 the creation it self being the stupendous volume. 

 But as every thing naturally adheres to its own 

 like, and semblances partake of their own pro- 

 perties, stars then were not made meerly to gaze 

 at, nor elements but as vort rices for corporeal re- 

 ception ; otherwise how could birds divide their 



