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PART V. 
Remarks on the city of winchester, and 
Hampshire, with fotne general refleElions on 
the love of our country . 
LETTER LVIII, 
To Airs. O * * * * 
Madam, 
HAVE kept you fo long in difcourfe upon the concerns of 
jL another world, and the joys of a future date, that it is but 
natural for you to wifh to return to the innocent pleafures of 
the PRESENT. 
Next to the hopes of glory, in the world invisible to mortal 
eyes, the beautiful face of the earth, and the heavens which 
cover it, is the mod; pure, and mod exalted pleafure we are 
capable of enjoying. How the angelic poet deplores his dediny, 
in being deprived of that, which we make fo very little account 
of, generally beholding all the beauties of nature with a care- 
lefs indifference. Perhaps I diould not fay all, there are 
fome which demand our homage, as well as edeem. The fe- 
raphic milton laments his fate in this pathetic drain ; 
“ Light* 
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