76 EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



Grove-hill, are heightened by the numerous 

 hamlets, and elegant seats, scattered over the 

 surrounding country; the whole affording 

 a display of rural elegance, scarcely to be 

 sm-passed in any part of the island. 



On this spot, so well calculated to display 

 at once all the beauties of nature and art, 

 the happy party involuntarily paused, while 

 the watchful guardian of their infancy en- 

 deavoured to awaken in their tender minds 

 the social affections, and to impress them 

 with love, reverence, and gratitude, towards 

 the beneficent Parent of universal nature. 



It is by frequently contemplating scenes 

 like the present, my dear children, that we 

 become deeply sensible of the unlimited 

 power of the Deity, and of his beneficence 

 to the human race. This spectacle is -cal- 

 culated to inspire the mind with a noble 

 pride; our ideas expand with the views of 

 the horizon, and are refined by the pure 

 air which we respire. On the other hand, 

 the sight of art embellishing nature ; of the 



earth 



