APPENDIX. it 



>hink myfelf very unhappy, were I to trouble the public with a trifling or 

 a worthlefs hook ; but to the farming reader, or to thofe who can be in- 

 ferefted with the memoirs of an honert iiiduftry, I flatter myfelf this liillc 

 work will not be unacceptable*. 



It has been received with uncommon pleafure in Switzerland and 

 France. 



The notes I have added, are marked at the end.*** 



No. 11. 



Fragments from the EnglifiLor French tranflatwn of the 

 Rural Socrates ; 'which \though origirtally written by 

 Dr, Hirzel^) have been refervcd for infer tion in this 

 appendix^ as not direCily relating to Kliyogg. 



• Refieflions new inflrud^ed njc in this great truth, that real 



grandeur in man is unconfined to rank ; and that the rceaneft condi- 

 tion furnifhes inflancea ot exalted fentiment and underftanding, capaj- 

 ble of being employed to the general good.— I wa? likewife convin- 

 ced that in all fifuarions, the confciouinefs of a rational application of 

 our talents, the fenfe of the progrefs we make in doing good, and the pure 

 and tranquil joy which is the conftant refuU of it ; are every where the 

 fteady reward of virtue. — The different gradations and defcriptions of ge- 

 nius are equally difcernible in the cottage and the palace, I could trace 

 among the cultivators of the earth a Lycurgus, a Socrates, a Plato, a Ho- 

 mer, and a Luciani ! Nor ought I to conceal that the marks of vice were 

 slfo to be met with. The diftiniftion between the ruftics and the falhion- 

 able part of the world confifts in the objecis, not the degree^ of the powers 

 of reafoning. 



The country therefore is the beft fchool for acquiring a more intimate 

 knowledge of human nature, for forming juft ideas of happinefy, and for 

 difccrning what conflitutcs the true greatnefs of raan. Here I learned to 



defpifc 



* // nuas njorttten originally in Getman, This trartjlation is from thi 

 French one *^* Y. 



+ Some 'Village Hampden^ that nxiith dauntfefs hreojl 

 The little tyrant of his fields ivith/iood ; 

 Some tnute% inglorious MilloTt) here may refi ; 

 Some Cromnjoelly guilt lefs of his country s bloods 



Full many a gemof purefl ray ferene 



The dark unfathom'd ca'ves of ocean htar ; 

 Full many a flo-Lver IS hern to hlu/h nnfesny 



And fviajie itsfnveetnejs on the defart air, 



Graj*s Elegy, written in a Country Church Yard, R, 



