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nearly all move at once. The whole plant is 
very rarely agitated, and that only during its 
first year. Swartz observes that the motion is 
irregular, and that it sometimes ceases entirely ; 
that it is immovable in a very hot day, being 
agitated only in the evening, and that slowly. 
In our climate, the leaves, in general, only 
make a faint and feeble attempt towards the 
middle of the day in exerting their extraor- 
dinary faculty. 
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AMIABILITY. 
JASMINE. 
The jasmine, throwing wide her elegant sweets, 
The deep dark green of whose unvarnished leaf 
Makes more conspicuous, and illumines more 
The bright profusion of her scatter’d stars. 
COWPER. 
Ture are some persons endowed with a dis- 
position so happy, that they seem to be sent 
into the world to be the bond of society. 
There is so much of grace and ease in their 
manners, that they adapt themselves to every 
situation, accommodate themselves to all tastes, 
and infuse cheerfulness into every company. 
They flatter none; they affect nothing, and 
never give offence. This quality is as much 
the gift of heaven as the lovely countenance 

