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leffon, and fuch an one as the beft of us often 
want to have inculcated. 
From a partial confideration of things, we 
are very apt to criticife what we ought to ad- 
mire *, to look upon as ufelefs what perhaps we 
fliould own to be of infinite advantage to us* 
did we fee a little farther ; to be peevifh where 
we ought to give thanks ; and at the fame time 
to ridicule thofe, who employ their time and 
thoughts in examining what we were, h e. 
fome of us moll afiuredly were, created and 
appointed to ftudy. In fhort we are too apt to 
treat the Almighty worfe than a rational man 
would treat a good mechanic*, whofe works 
he would either thoroughly examine, or be 
alhamed to find any fault with them. This is 
the effed of a partial confideration of nature ; 
but he who has candor of mind and leifure to 
look farther, will be inclined to cry out : 
How wond’rous is this fcene! where all is form’d 
With number, weight, andmeafure! alldefign’d 
For fome great end! where not alone the plant 
Of ftately growth *, the herb of glorious hue. 
Or food-full fubilance *, not the laboringfteed. 
The herd, and flock that feed us ; not the mine 
That yields us ftores for elegance, and ufe ; 
The 
