114 '^HE RURAL SOCRATES. 



*' we are happy, when we love our condition and the 

 '' duties which it impofcs, and enjoy the delightful con- 

 *' vid:ion of it, and the fatisfadtion which an honed man 

 ** feels when he finds tliat he can refped: himfeif for his 

 *' condudl.**^ I am thoroughly fenfible. how much 

 '' this comparative efiimate lowers thofe proud mortals, 

 ** who wifh to fubmit every thing to their ambition ; 

 *' but on the other hand, it mufl; elevate fublime minds, 

 *' which is exadly v/hat is ufeful for humanity/' 



You may eafily believe that I very willingly accepted 

 the propofal which hishighnefs made me, of bringingmy 

 peafant phiiofopher to Schintznatch. — ^^Ifenc with fpeed 

 a mefTenger to Kliyogg ; well affured that he would' 

 not fail to come immediatelyj nothing being fo natural 

 to him as to give {^cafure to his friends ; and I went the 

 following day to Brugg to wait for him at the houfe of 

 my dear Zimmerman. — -My friend Kliyogg appeared' 

 the day after, very early in the morning. He had walk- 

 ed ail the night, having travelled feven leagues without 

 flopping ; except to refrefli himielf under a tree with a' 

 bit of bread which he had brought in his pocket, and 

 with a draught of frefh water taken from a neighboring 

 ipring. He had on him a peafant drefs of ticking [coutij ' 

 which was very clean : and if his habit wa!s not impo- 

 Ung, there appeared a vivacity and a ferenity upon his 

 countenance which won every heart. 



The burgravc of Donha had alfo come to Brugg • 

 to meet Kliyogg. When I explained to Kli- 

 yogg the rank of this young nobleman, and his re- 

 lationfhip to Frederic of PrufTia, whom Kliyogg had ' 

 fo often admired ; he looked at the burgrave with the 

 piercing eye of an obferver. He then gave his heart- 

 felt praifes to this king of PruiTia ; ''who (he faid) 

 *' would never have performed miracles had he not al- 

 ** ways been the fir Jl at work, — The example of this 

 *' prince, (continued he, with a movement of his head 

 '^ which in him always announces a peculiar emotion,) 

 ^' has not a little cojitributed to raifc my own courage, 



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