i62 THE RUKAL SOCRATES. 



reafoningSj and bluQied at having put fo many obflaclcs 

 to this fecond marriage ; and envy had the mortifica- 

 tion to find, that Kliyogg entirely obtained his end. — His 

 .new wife (hewed the bell difpofltions ; and while (he 

 followed the will of her hnfband, knew how to gain the 

 compleat affe<Slion of his children ; infomuch that the eld- 

 eft fon of Kliyogg married her daughter, and thus laid 

 the foundation of a folid and durable peace. This fon 

 (by name John Gafper) remained more faithfully at- 

 tached to the principles of our philofopher, than all his 

 other children ; his refpeift for his father increafed with 

 years ; he joined to this the mofl tender attachment to 

 his younger brother ; and there is every appearance 

 that one day he will become a fecond KHyogg. 



p. 285* — 287, We have already faid, that to avoid 

 difpates, Kliyogg had eilablinied his firfl fon-in-law 

 apart from him» But the farm which he had procur- 

 ed for him not being ofthe beft quality and being oth- 

 erwifemudi neglccled, the undertaking fell particularly 

 heavy upon him. Nothing could fave him but the af- 

 fiftance of his father in law : and his father-in-law was 

 jiot backv/ard in granting it, a^Stlng with a gencrofity 

 which could not have been {urpafTed even if Hans had 

 ^.;/.r ys treated him wlih the mofl tender affeclion. He 

 gave him cattle, corn, and wine ; and lent him all 

 his credit. By this means he helped him to overcome 

 his obllaclcs, to lay upfomething, and to obtain the en- 

 tire aps robatioR of his landlord. Kliyogg even declar- 

 ed, '' that v/hile he lived, his Hans (liould never be ru- 

 ' ined ; that Hans had f^metimcs, it is true, treated him 

 ^ very ill ; but on the other hand he had afFi fled him in 

 ' his work with a fidelity and zeal worthy of praife ; 

 ' and that if he could not otherwife gain his livelihood, 

 ' he fl^ould come into his houfe again w iienevcr he 

 * pltafcd.'* It was thus that our philofophcr returned 

 good for ill. — Such virtue was not without its re- 

 ward. Kliyogg had the happinefs to fee all his chi!- 

 drcrv well provided for ^?vci7 thofc cf b's fecond wife. 



