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THE ITALIAN POPLAR. 



and^ I thinks that mind is best taught^ which 

 is best pleased with things thus divinely form- 

 ed and commended." 



It does not^ however^ follow/' I said^ that 

 every production of nature is equally elegant. 

 This can no more be said^ than that all are 

 equally useful. The beauty^ nevertheless, and 

 the utility may be apparent enough in some 

 circumstances, and to some persons, which 

 may be quite undiscernible in other cases. If 

 all liked and disliked, required and were an- 

 noyed, by the same things, we should not have 

 nearly enough of the good sort, and should be 

 tormented to misery by the bad. By the in- 

 finite diversities of tastes, occasions, and ma- 

 terials, there is generally great abundance in 

 the provisions of nature, and but very little 

 waste." 



