J4£ THE RURAL SOCRA-^ES. 



IMAGES g — 4» Contain only compliments to the fena- 

 for Angelo Q^ririni of Venice, to whom this fl^etchis ad- 

 di-efled . 



p. 4. Dr. Rirzel repeatedly affirms, that he has feen 

 icars of princes flowing, when they recognized in the 

 countenance of the peaiant Kliyogg the nobienefs of the 

 iuiman character, and felt their own imperfec-tions. 

 Pvlore than once he has had the fatisfac^ion alio to ob- 

 ferve learned men, who at firil: uied great efforts to put 

 their talents upon a.level with the compreJienfion of this 

 peafant, finiih by being his attentive hearers ; and after 

 having horrowed hints from his good Ct^nie. devote with 

 ^nthiifiafni their abilities to ufcfnl things. 



p. 5. Various perfons who had confidcrcd the pic^cure 

 of Kliyogg by the author as a poetical fidlion,have found 

 it falling Ihort of the original, when they have become 

 acquainted with this admirnblc man. &c. 



p. 6. Kliyogg was a means of furnilliing many occa- 

 ^ons of obferving other men and weighing their merits. 

 In hearing the friendly tliicourres between this peaiant 

 ^nd people of quality and merit, the author felt all the 

 iiappincis of being a man. He faw as it were embodied, 

 in this living example the great truth, that wifdom, vir- 

 tue and hapincfs are the i;:nic in every condition ; and 

 that the external circiimflances of tlie prince, tl\e learn- 

 ed man, the artifl, the peaiant, and eyen of the (lave, 

 have no more value, compared with the finer qualities 

 f>f the human chnradrer ; than drefs hns with regard to 

 'he human body. Drefs fometimes conreals the de.- 

 7c^>s of the body and furniQie.s marks of diflintlliun, bi]t 

 T^ever can give us beauty or flrengt)]. — p. 7—9. TU^: 

 uthor ROt being in -i fituation to tiTiVcl or to m^ike l^ril- 



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