1 66 THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



eludes with faying, that in moments like thcfe, be has 

 thought hloiielf in the company of Socrates and Epi<^e- 



tas. 



p. i^->u No niisfortun.c dcjedeJ Kliyogg or drew 

 from hisTi con:ij>lai»*ts. TheypariySi was difaftrous 

 to his crops: In the autiunn v/orms had made great 

 havoc in his rye : and in the following fpring during 

 the month of May, a froit dedroyed the profpe^ from 

 his vines and trees which v»'as very promiling. His 

 Tons were deeply afRicted ; bit he called their affli£lion 

 ingratitude towards God ; as they had fullicient blefring3 

 remaining to them from the preceding :iF)d even from 

 that very year, and God would flili be bountiful to 

 them. He encouraged them therefore to low a great 

 quantity of Uimmer- wheat, WAthout fuifering his mind 

 to be troubled. 



p. 302 — 304, Seme pad'iges from Seneca, D'AIem- 

 bert, and the P^lements o^' politics are here introduced, 

 to Qiew that Kliypgg merited ilic name of a philofo-^ 



pher. 



p. 305— 318. In thefe thirteen pages Dr. Hirzel tra-, 

 cesthe portrait of a good prince refembling Kliyogg. 



p^ ^ig_2i9. The author tinilhes by faying, that 

 whatever traits diflinguifii any man held as excellent. 

 they vi^ill all of them be found ^llb iu Kliyogg. 



p. 320— 3:23. Such was Kliyogg as long as Godprc- 

 ferved his healih and flrength ; that is, .to the age of 74. 

 —From that period, he felt his bodily powers and the 

 vigor of his mind daily diminifhing ; dangerous humors 

 colleftinginhis body ; and his digelling facuhies becom- 

 ing deranged. Having fuifered alfo much from the cold 

 of the preceding winter (1784-5), a dropfical complaint, 

 which increafed from day to day, obliged him^ finally to 

 remain in ills bed, and announced his approachjng death, 

 —At the ^:^(lne^vs of his Hcknefs, the author dctermi 



mmed 



once 



