tHOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 3 I jf 



tliat the great Bacon experienced his truefl; feli- 

 city. With regard to the Otmn cum dlgnitate, fo 

 much recommended, no one, I beheve, under- 

 flands the true meaning of it better, or pra6lifcs 

 it more fuccefsfully than you do. 



A rural life, I think, is better fuited to this 

 kingdom than to any other ; becaufe the country 

 in England affords pleafures and amufements un- 

 known in other countries ; and becaufe its rival, 

 our Englifh town (or ton) life, perhaps is a lefg 

 pleafant one than may be found elfewhere. If 

 this, upon a nice invcftigation of the matter, 

 ihould appear to be ftridly true, the conclufion that 

 would neceffarily refult from it might prove more 

 than I mean it fliould ; therefore we will drop the 

 fubje(9:. Should you, however, differ from me 

 in opinion of your town life, and difapprove what 

 I have faid concerning it, you may excufe me, if 

 you pleafe, as you would a lawyer, who does the 

 befi: he can for the party for whom he is retained, 

 I think you will alfo excufe any expreflions I may 

 have ufed, which may not be current here ; if you 

 find, as I verily believe you may, that I have not 

 made ufe of a French word, but when I could not 

 have expreffed my meaning fo well by an Englifh. 

 one : — it is only an unnecefTary and afFe(51ed ap-r 

 plication of a foreign language, that in my opi- 

 nion, is deferving of cenfure. 





