I5« THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



(dexterous manner than could be expefted from a man 

 grown old in the hardefl work. He neverthelcfs faid 

 that he did not long expevSb to prefer ve this child, who 

 in truth had a fickly countenance. 



p. 248 — 249. The fons of Kliyogg had this day been 

 working in the vines ; an occupation which they pre- 

 ferred to all others ; on w^hich fubjeft their father ad- 

 'drcffed to them Come advice. 



p. 250 .When the Tons were retiredjKliyogg complain- 

 ed that they were too fond of riches. ^' My eldeft fon, 

 '* faid he, is always afking for a rich wife ; but rich wives 



* love luxury and good living, and objedl to work ; as 



* well on account of their delicate conflitutions, as from 

 ^ the fear of dirtying their clothes. Thefe impreffions 



* are dommuuTcated,' little by little, to their hufbands ; 



* who avoid, in their turn, all hard and dirty work ; 

 ^ and fjniih by becoming the mere inipeftors of their 



* workmen. Their workmen laugh at an idle niafter 

 ' who turns his back upon his bufinefs, and imitate him 

 ^ by doing nothing ; whence the harveds diminiQi, the 

 ' fields become neglcv^ed, diforder creeps into the houf- 



* hold, and by degrees all the 'wealth vanifties. There 



* are no true riches but thofe enjoyed without remorfc 



* and with true contentment. Work muft be dorte 



* from a love for it, or from duty ; and not with a dc- 



* fire to' become enriched.' He who works from a paf 



* fion for doing his duty, will always pofTefs the divine 

 ^blefTing." ■ -^ - 



p. 252 — 254. Some geographical and myfllca] books 

 |[before mentioned, and] which Kliyogg inherited from 

 a brother who had ferved in Dutch regiments ; gave 

 our philofopher occafion to [renew his] remark, " that 

 y^ there is nothing more hurtful for a peafant than 2 paf- 

 *• fion for books ; that he had often found caufe to re- 



* gret, after the return of his brother, that his own chil- 



* dren, by means of reading, had been led to forget their 



* occupations ; that he lamented in particular, that the 

 *"' children of his brother had been drawn afide by fana- 

 ' is^' ■■ • ' tics ; 



