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corporeal qualities, their projier relation to each other, and the 

 subordinate character of the latter to that of the former, 



ws oUt' i-ivoperis, odr' uSeos inXer' ovfiap Uj)pian. llali- 



eut. L. V. vs. 

 TOcrcroPf offov Tpamowv, 04, 



are kept up in the passage first adduced : in which he merely 



means to say that he does not wish to spend his time in 



slothful idleness ; and that the rural vocations of agriculture 



and hunting, being of a secondary and inferior character, more 



connected with the body than the mind, are not agreeable to 



his taste, as the business and occupation of life, " setatem 



agere." And we must allow that the entire and constant 



dedication of time to practical agriculture, or rural sports, to 



the care of flocks and herds, or the kenneling and coursing of 



greyhounds, unvaried by such higher studies and pursuits as 



are characteristic of well-educated men, must be deemed, in 



polished life, rather lowly employment ; — approaching too near Arist. Polit. L. 



to the class of occupations, which the Stagirite considers 



sordid and servile, as being exercised by the corporeal powers 



alone : — to avoid which, Sallust declares a decided preference 



to speculative over bodily activity; to the "vita in literis" Historia Vita2 et 



Mortis. 



over the " vita rusticana : " " qu6 mihi rectius videtur, " says 

 he, " ingenii quam virium opibus gloriam quserere." Dis- 

 claiming that union of both, which we so much admire in the 

 Athenian philosopher of the Scilluntian retreat, and his coun- 

 terpart, the modern literary country gentleman ; a fair example 

 of an individual acting upon the twofold principle on which 

 Mr. Addison regulated his conduct. " As a compound of soul 

 and body, obliged to a double scheme of duties ; and thinking 

 that he has not fulfilled the business of the day, unless he has 



