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divine poetry. 
What Foolilh mortals we are to think of arriving at the end 
without the means ; and what folly is it to neglect fuch means 
as reafon and experience prove to be intrinsically valuable ! 
And what are the moll animated compofitions, compared to 
the writings of fuch infpired penmen ? nothing merely human 
ieems to approach them in majelly, force, or fublimity ! Read 
job, read david, or read st. paul ; however obfcure fome paf- 
fages may be to us, thofe we clearly underlland, cannot be read 
without our feeling a power refembling infpiration in ourfelves : 
and yet, alas, thefe books are very little lludied ; I might fay 
hardly ever read, except by the poor and illiterate, or per- 
chance at church, where we do not often enter fufficiently into 
the beauties of the language or the sentiment. There are 
many remarks of this kind, much fuperior to any I can make, 
to be found in the fpectators and other authors, and I refer you 
to them. I am yours, & 1 c. 
LETTER XIIL 
To the fame. 
M A D A M, 
L ET us now contemplate the charms of this world. You 
remember after church we went to wilton, the feat of 
the earl of Pembroke, which is dillant from Salisbury three 
miles. Near this place is the borough town, of that name, 
where was firft ellablifhed the famous manufactory of carpets, 
which are now made in feveral parts of the kingdom. I have 
often thought that, conlidering their thinnefs and fmall breadths, 
it 
