IHE RURAL SOCRATES. 4^ 



*Kliyogg cxercifes all the duties o^th-tmafferoftt 

 family y though he is the younger brother. He who has the 

 "priority of birth, has a iiifficient degree of information 



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* As tiieEng1i/h tranflator has here pa/Ted ovei moFC thaii nine pages un- 

 noticed, containing a converfation between Kliyogg and oar author, aft 

 cxtrafl foKows of fo much of the paflage as is intereftiog. 



•' When yx)u ha?e meditated well upon objeih tending to th?; pa'olic 

 ,«* utility (fays Kliyogg) propofe them with etjergy and zeal, and let the 

 c< manner of executing theoi be a naodei of feriior acd zCiWiiy ; and the 

 •• blefling of Providciice will not be wanting. Yon will always obtain 

 «« apart of what yoo feek ; and the firft frc^fT-^?. hov^ever faint, will not 

 •«<on!y fuggeft the trial of new expedients, mi will give you coorage in 

 «* your farther efforts. To day, one point vviji be gained, ton:)orrow anoth- 

 «' er, and infenfibly your work will receive its lull accomplifhnienr. — I; 

 «< waa not a!! at once, that I f.icceeded in improving my lands ; many 

 «* years pafled away beforel could perceive that I had made any advance ; 

 «t but this did not difcoarage me. — You doubt the approbation of the pub- 

 «< lie ; but why (hculd you doubt that what is honeft and ufcful will at laft 

 <« obtain its concurrence ? There is fomcthing within us, when we heat 

 <» the truth, that fays Tes to it, however difagreeable it niay be. Do 

 <« net be difheartened yourfelf, and in the end you will perceive, that ev- 

 « cry cne will be afhamed to refufe you his approbation. — But my dear 

 «' Kliyogg (replied our author) fuccefs in your cafs is a conftant motive to 

 «« aiSiviiy J every Groke of your hoc is a ftep forwards, end makes yoa 

 «« approach nearer to the objcfts yon have in view ; whereas in working 

 «' for the public wc often fee, in a finglc inftant, the fruit of all our labors 

 <» vanilh, and proje^s rejeified which are the beft intentioned and contriv- 

 «< ed. Such contradidions difliearten public men ; their zeal cools ; an^ 

 <* K-hcn no remedy appears, they leave things ro take their couifc- — This 

 *« (exclaimed Kliyogg with vivacity) is exaif^Iy what ought not to be ; 

 *« for it it prccifely /^<r«, that efforts ought to be redoubled. The rtwre 

 «« prefling is the call, the more ought we to he convinced of the necelSty of 

 «« an im media re attention to it. And is not the internal i}iiti«.f3^1ion w,hici\ 

 " we experience, when we know that we have done oar duty, of itHtlf a 

 « fccompenfe ; and the firft that can be propofed ? Tnift to Providince : 

 <;« every ufeful attempt, however fruftrated, may at another feafoti^iroduce 

 " falutary fruits. Often,, when the ftate of the feafons has feem^ to Jake; 

 " away all hepe from me, Providence has favored me at the time of bar- 

 «* veft with a fufficient crop; and he who reckons upon Providence whc:?. 

 «* engaged in an honeft enterprize, according to the apodle, al'w&ji li'jes 

 '^,^ in hope:* . ^ 



Kliyogg in the above converfation, fecms to agree with the Ia?e Dr. 

 Tebb of London, who in his political conferences ufcd to jrc£r.ark» fhaf r?^ 

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