TliE RURAL SOCRATES. I47 



' their ob{linacy, you arc often forced to renounce the 

 ^ good you had deligised to perform/ 



p. 29-30. The next obje£l of the oarty was to learn 

 whether Kliyogg was inlenfible to vanity ; and Dr. 

 Hirzel was therefore defired to inform him, that they 

 had brought with them a condderable painter to take 

 his portrait, to be exhibited to public \iew at Venice. 

 Kliyogg anfwered with a fmile, that '' this would nei- 



* ther render him better nor happier ; but that neverthe* 



* iefs he would not oppofe their wifh, if they thought it 



* could give fatisfadlion to any, or be of ufe."= — ButKli- 

 yogg had no idea of the flattery arifing from glory. Dro 

 Hirzel was convinced of this, by feveral vifits which 

 had been made to him by princes. He felt indeed much 

 gratification in feeing pcrfons, fo elevated, condefcend 

 thus in his favor ; andexprefTed this in his compliments 

 to them ; but he never (hewed any marks of being 

 proud in confequence. Hence thefe princes, in propor- 

 tion as they gained an infight into his charadler, difcov- 

 ered in him the Rural Socrates, and refpe»^ed and loved 

 him asfuch. 



The fccond article in the original of this work by Drc 

 Hirzel (from p. 89 to 178) regards the /^(^^^(/f ofknoiv-- 

 ledge in modern times ^ and the manner of cnli^^htening a 

 people; but it fays not a word of Kliyogg or of sgricuU 

 ture. 



A new Examination cf the philofophy of Kliyogg fol- 

 lows ; addreffed to Mr. Mercy, Bail iff (or civil chief) 

 of St. Pierre in the Black forefl (oppofite to Alface.) 



H— rt-rra^gSaBEnswr^ 



p. 199 — 202. 



