THE RURAL SOCRATES. 16; 



OI3CC more to fee him ; nnmciy, on the Ji Jane (17 85 ) — 

 It was on that fame day that Mr-vSclnimacker^chamber- 

 ]ain to the king of Denmark, paid the author a vi[it. 

 The difcourfe Toon turning upon Kliyogg, this travel- 

 ler learning the author's intentions, propofed himielf 

 for the party. 



p. 323. Our philofophcr was found reduced to 

 a condition which drew tears from the feeling Schu- 

 macker. — He was flretched, in a (late of great debility » 

 Dpon a bench ; furroundcd every where with pillows^ 

 He raifed himfelf with much trouble, in order to fpenL 

 to his vifitors ; and to tell the fufferings which he had un- 

 dergone during many weeks, but from which neverthe- 

 lefs he hoped to recover. The v^eaknefs of his bodv 

 had made much impreilion upon his fpirits ; he was 

 greatly funk and in bad humor ; and his eycs^ which for- 

 merly fparkled with joy in his converfations, were 

 moiflened with the tears which conflantly fcU as he 

 fpoke. It is true that he ilill repeated liis wife ma::ims 

 on the fubjecfl of the too great luxury of fome of his 

 ch'ldren, and the too great avaiice of others, bet all in 

 a lasPientablc tone. He interrupted however this dii- 

 courfe from time to time, by dwelling with tendernefs 

 on his httle ones, the mofi: intereRini}; companions of 

 his old age ; touching upon their characler and talents 

 and other circumftanccs, with tears of joy. — He difco- 

 vercd little fear at death ; and when the author fpoke of 

 ft, he faid, " 1 have a good confcience ; I have always 



* 'loved equity and juftice, and have truly fulfilled the 

 ' duties of my fiation. Let then the will of God be 

 ^ done, for I have known him through all my life as a 



* God of mere}*, who has loaded me v/ith his kindnefs ; 

 ^ and he will alfo grant m.e his favors in the ether 



* world." — Kliyogg neverthelefs wiihcd and always ex- 

 pe£led the re-eRabliihment of his health, and the return 

 of his flrength for working. The rcnicmbrance of his 

 long ilinefs was however fufRcient to throw him into 

 ^'*'*'^:^ — /^3 to medicine he rr"-^-'^-:? it ::hogfnher ; {o- 



having' 



