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TIMOTHY NOURSE, whose " Campania Foelix," 8vo. 1700, 

 has prefixed to it, a very neat engraving by Vander Gucht, 

 of rural life. He has chapters on Fruit Trees; on the seve- 

 ral kinds of Apple Trees, and on Cyder and Perry. In 

 page 262 he, with great humanity, strongly pleads to acquit 

 Lord Chancellor Bacon from the charge against him of cor- 

 ruption in his high office. His Essay " Of a Country House." 

 in this work, is curious; particularly to those who wish to see 

 the style of building, and the decorations of a country seat 

 at that period. Mr. Nourse also published " A Discourse 

 upon the Nature and Faculties of Man, with some Consider- 

 ations upon the Occurrences of Humane Life." Printed for 

 Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head, in Chancery-lane, 1686, 

 8vo. His chapter on Solitude, wherein he descants on the 

 delights of rural scenery and gardens; and his conclusion, 

 directing every man towards the attainment of his own feli- 

 city, are worth perusing. That on Death is forcibly written ; 

 he calls it "no more than for a man to close up all the tra- 

 vails, pains, and misfortunes of life, with one sweet and 

 eternal sleep; he is now at everlasting rest; the fears and 

 misery of poverty, the anxieties of riches, the vexations of a 

 process, do not devour him. He does not fear the calumnies 

 of the base, nor the frowns of the great. 'Tis death which 

 delivers the prisoner from his fetters, and the slave and 

 captive from his chain; 'tis death which rescues the servant 

 from the endless toils of a laborious life, the poor from 

 oppression, and makes the beggar equal with princes. Here 

 desperation finds a remedy, all the languors of disease, all 

 the frustrations and tediousness of life, all the infirmities of 

 age, all the disquiets of the passions, and all the calamities 

 of fortune, with whatever can make a man miserable, vanish 

 in these shades." In his very curious " Essay of a Country 

 House," he thus moralizes:" The variety of flowers, beau- 

 tiful and fragrant, with which his gardens are adorned, 

 opening themselves, and dying one after another, must ad 



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