tot) THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



the p^afant being too feldom in a iituation to cxercifc 

 them. Limitted generally to the fingle care of procur- 

 ing bis fubfiftenre, he fees and habitually meets in oth- 

 ers fcarcely any thing befides attempts, in one fhape or 

 other, to deprive him gf the fruits of his labor. — But as 

 to Kliyogg, we know how capable he is of railing him- 

 4elf above his fellows ; and that friendfliip, conciefcen- 

 fion, and forgivencfs of injuries, are each as natural to 

 him, as his allonhhingadlivity in his ruftic labors ; and 

 thefe are the virtues which not only preferve him in a 

 conflant ftate oftranquillity and content, which nothing 

 can alter, but which manifcri: themfelvcs in the divine 

 character of his countenance. 



1 have lately made him avifitin company with Baron 

 Rudbeck and the learned M. de Biornflal, two SwediHi 

 travellers of merit, whofe obfcrving eye fuffers nothing 

 to cfcape them, which can interefl humanity.**"*. We 

 found Kliyogg jufl returned from a fatiguing journey, 

 having that moment taken his fe^t at the dinner- 

 table. He rofe immediately to receive us ; and, much 

 as he Hood in need of reft and refrellunent, it was in 

 vain that we ufcd every poflible intreaty to oblige hint 

 to linifh his repaft. He entertained us with a thoufand 

 intcredip.g things, conducted us into his fields, and (hew- 

 ed us the improvements which then occupied him. At 



our 



M. f^e S£r.(?Ier, aiJ (le camp to the count de Stainville, having orders to 

 il-arcn for f»eldi of grain where the horfes of his general rr,ight forage ; 

 met ao Ar.abaptift, vvhaia be enjoined to conduct him lo fuch fields. — The 

 jgood man endeavored to cxcufe himfelf, with a degree of calmneG equal- 

 }v removed from infrnence and from fear j but being conHrained, he de- 

 ilred M de Stadlcr to follow him. They had proceeded through a wood 

 ■A confiderahle way, uhen M. de Stadler found that they had pafled a 

 Tuimber of, fields of grain, ot vthich the Anabaptift had taken rio notic*. 

 When he afked the reafon, i!>c old man ftill advancing, faid, *' the othe^ 

 *» fields do not belong to me, bur this does ; fend therefore mowers, and 

 •"* tzW mc the quantity of forage yon want." — The French iranflator, adds, 

 jrer;'efting the Anahaptifts, that a petfon, who had been for fifty years at 

 tthe head of ihc magiftracy of Amfterdam, affiired hi:r», that during the 

 vi-holc of that time, ^^ had never fcund one jerious accufation in the fii,hlic 

 1 ,-ffij}(fi cgairH an Anahtipiiji^ 



