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lavater’s - 
Covered with a coat of mail, and dreffed in a 
llrong fuit of armour, the may-bug takes pride in 
difplaying his power to do mifchief and defend 
himfelf. 
The gnat’s grinders are adapted to his character 
for gnawing, and eating greedily, whatever comes 
in his way. 
The grafshopper difcovers the fame ravenous ap- 
petite, by his open and menacing mouth. 
The horn-beetle, or bull-fly, appears cruel and 
ferocious. Like him, there is a fwarm of reptiles 
whofe united features might ferve to furnifli a pic- 
ture of the greateft wickednefs, were it not unfor- 
tunately found in the faces of nobler creatures. 
"^True it is, however, that much as they vary in 
fliape, colour, and inclinations, we find them all 
wifely formed by the Creative hand to anfwer the 
fecret views of Providence. 
ESSAY 
