8.2 EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



will revisit them with a sentiment of gnili* 

 tude, and rejoice at having been early in- 

 spired with a taste for virtuous and simple 

 pleasures. Should death have bereaved you 

 of a father; should I be no longer the com- 



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panion of your rambles, or speak to you of 

 nature, and of nature's God, even in the 

 midst of his most glorious works; you will 

 drop a tear to my memory, while you say 

 to each other, " It was upon this verdau 

 spot, amidst these rural groves, that the au- 

 thor of our being, the friend of our infancy 

 and youth, formerly instructed us respect* 

 ing the object and end of creation. He 

 rambled with us through the country, and, 

 in so doing, imbued us with a taste for simi- 

 lar, pleasures. He instructed us respecting 

 the system of the universe, and the exalted 

 state which man occupies in the grand scale 

 of animated existence." 



Alas, how frequently do we recal to 

 mind with regret the peaceful days of in- 

 fancy J At the sight qf the vice and misery 



engendered 



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