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borders of beautiful flowers at Moor Park); I have travelled 

 far since, and have seen a great deal; but I have never seen 

 any thing of the gardening kind so beautiful in the whole 

 course of my life." Mr. Johnson, in his History of English 

 Gardening, after noticing many general particulars of Sir 

 William, devotes an interesting page to Sir William's attach- 

 ment to gardening; and every line in this generous page, be- 

 trays his own delight in this art. He thus concludes this 

 page: " Nothing can demonstrate more fully the delight he 

 took in gardening, than the direction left in his will, that his 

 heart should be buried beneath the sun-dial of his garden, at 

 Moor Park, near Farnham, in Surrey. In accordance with 

 which, it was deposited there in a silver box, affording an- 

 other instance of the ruling passion unweakened even in 

 death. Nor was this an unphilosophical clinging to that 

 which it was impossible to retain; but rather that grateful 

 feeling, common to our nature, of desiring finally to repose 

 where in life we have been happy. In his garden, Sir Wil- 

 liam Temple had spent the calmest hours of a well-spent life, 

 and where his heart had been most peaceful, he wished its 

 dust to mingle, and thus, at the same time, offering his last 

 testimony to the sentiment, that in a garden 



Hie secura quies, et nescia fallere vita" 



JOHN LOCKE wrote " Observations upon the Growth of 

 Vines and Olives; the Production of Silk, the Preservation 

 of Fruits. Written at the request of the Earl of Shaftes- 

 bury; now first printed from the original manuscript in the 

 possession of the present Earl of Shaftesbury, Is. 6d. 

 Sandby, 1 766." Among the many portraits we have of this 

 learned man, the public are indebted to Lord King, for 

 having prefixed to his Life of Mr. Loeke, a very fine por- 

 trait of him, from after Greenhill. This great and good man 

 possessed, in the highest degree, those virtues that have 



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