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into it with great cordiality the hufband of their 

 Mer ; who has not only lived with them for many 

 years, but has even joined his mother to their fociety.— 

 This man had been fingularly prepofieiTed againft Kli- 

 yogg ; and, when the latter had jull cftablifhed himfelf 

 ri the farm which the republic had confided to his care^ 

 he came to fecehim : but by no means fo much with a 

 view to inflrndlhimrelf, as toform,inperron, his opinion 

 of this fmgular character ; of whom he had conceived a 

 very difadvantageous idea, and whom he wifhed to turn 

 .-, into ridicule by means of fads to which he fhould him- 

 ^'-^Ifbe a witnefs. Having folid good fenfe however^ 

 . uth and worth could not efcape him : he bluihed a^ 

 his projed ; fav/ himfelf obliged to refped the man at 

 whom he had pretended to fcolF; and found all that 

 '/as fingular in him, built upon folid reafoning. He 

 became attached to one of his daughters ; demanded 

 ""ler in marriage ; and obtained her, upon condition of 

 ving with our philofopher, and working and partak- 

 ing in every thing with his children, Ac firfl indeed 

 there was a flight difcontent among his Tons ; but their 

 -father reprefented with energy the happy effeds re- 

 iliino- from a reunion of their labors, with the conti- 

 jed increafe of profits in a family in proportion to the 

 creafe of its a6live members ! while divided families 

 and properties led to a decline of every thing : though 

 'fie concluded his remonftrances with leaving full lib- 

 • erty to thofe who were diiTatisfied, to quit him. They 

 have fince found by experience, how much their father 

 was in the right. 



His fon in law has become in all refpeas a feconci 

 Kliyogg, having adopted all the father's principles, and 

 thinking himfelf in confeqiience the bapplefl; of men. 

 The mother is equally charmed at being able to clofe 

 her career in the midll of a family-, where peace and 

 concord reign without interruption and are the de- 

 lightful recompenfe of honcft labor 5 and where thf: 

 beauty of the 133d pfalm. is to be felt in all its extent. 

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