Oo t pursuits of man,

        Friendly to t, to virtue and to peace,

        tranger er, must not e ions to tropolis.

        go forto try;    sojourn in villages and s;    visit castles, villas, farm-tages;     loiter about try d ivals; and cope ions, and all ts and humors.

        In some tries, ties absorb tion; t and intelligent society, and try is ined almost entirely by boorisry. In England, on trary, tropolis is a mere gate classes, ion of to a y and dissipation, and, urn again to tly more genial s of     rural life. ty are tired neig ranks.

        t, are strongly gifted he rural feeling.

        ty to ties of nature, and a keen reliss of try.

        t in tants of cities, born and brougling streets, enter y into rural s, and eviact for rural occupation. t reat in ty of tropolis, ion    of s, as    of erprise. Even tunate individuals,    of din and traf?c, trive to    s of nature. In t dark and dingy quarters of ty, tly a bank of ?o capable of vegetation s grass-plot and ?os mimic park, laid out uresque taste, and gleaming h refreshing verdure.

        to to form an unfavorable opinion of er. racted by ts t dissipate time, t, and feeling, in tropolis. oo only, a look of ra. o be,    of going some alking on one subject, o anot, ing ime so as to pay ts allotted to tropolis, like London, is calculated to make men sel?seresting.

        In tra meetings, t deal brie?y in onplaces. t but ter--its ricies ime to be o a ?ow.

        It is in try t to ural feelings. ies aive civilities of tos of sed. o collect round e life, and to baniss restraints. ry-seat abounds e, eitudious retirement, tasteful grati?cation, or rural exercise. Books, paintings, musig implements of all kinds, are at s no strais or , in true spirit of ality, provides t, and leaves every oo partake acc to ion.

        taste of tivation of land, and in udied Nature ily, and discovered an exquisite sense of iful forms and ions. tries, sudes, are s of domestic life. to    ive graces, and spread tc their rural abodes.

        Not la extend like ss of vivid green, ic trees, rooping in silent o t; or t, suddenly bursting upon taugo ural meanderings,     or expand into a glassy lake--tered pool, re?eg trees, s bosom, and trout roaming fearlessly about its limpid ers; emple, or sylvan statue, groity to the seclusion.

        t a feures of park sery; but    deligive taleentatious abodes of middle life. t ation, t unpromising and sty portion of land, in taste, bees a little paradise.

        iting eye,    once upon its capabilities, and pictures in ure landscape. terile spot groo loveliness uions of art o be perceived. training of some trees; tious pruning of otribution of ?os of tender and graceful foliage; trodu of a green slope of velvet turf; tial opening to a peep of blue distance, or silver gleam of er;-all te tact, a pervadi quiet assiduity, like toucer ?nise picture.

        tune and re? in try, aste and elegan rural ey t desds to t class. tctage and narrotends to t. trim    before ttle ?orained up against ts blossoms about ttice; t of ?oly planted about to c er of its dreariness, and to to caste, ?os sing, deligo visit a cottage, it must be ttage of an Englis.

        t and salutary effect upon tional cer. I do not knolemen. Instead of tness and effeminacy    tries, t a union of elegand strengtness of frame and freso attribute to ting recreations of try. tone of mind and spirits, and a manliness and simplicity of manners, o easily pervert, and ever entirely destroy. In try, too, t orders of society seem to approaco be more disposed to blend and operate favorably upon eas bet appear to be so marked and impassable as iy ributed into small estates and farms ablision from try, small landed proprietors, and substantial farmers, doo try; and y togeto eacermediate rank a spirit of independe must be fessed, is not so universally t present as it ates e years of distress, absorbed ts of try, almost aurdy raall farmers. t casual breaks in tem I ioned.

        In rural occupation, t leads a man frandeur ay; it leaves o ted upon by t and most elevating of external in?uences. Suc    be vulgar. t, ting in an intercourse ies. and reserve, and is glad to ins of rank, and to enter into t, felt enjoyments of on life. Is of try bring, men more and more togeto    reason ry are more popular among try; and ies,    repining menerally at tribution of fortune and privilege.

        to tivated and rustic society may also be attributed t runs tiserature; t use of illustrations from rural life; tions of Nature, t abound in tiss--t inued do;t; of to our closets all toral ers of otries appear as if ture an occasional visit, and bee acquaiiss    secret s--tcest caprices. A spray could not tremble in t rustle to t patter in tream--a fragrance could not ex, nor a daisy unfold its crimson tints to t it iced by te observers, and iful morality.

        t of tion of elegant minds to rural occupations     ry. A great part of tonous,    not for ture; but it is studded and gemmed, as it les and palaces, and embroidered    does not abound in grand and sublime prospects, but rattle ered quiet.

        Every antique farm-tage is a picture; and as tinually    in by groves and ed by a tinual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness.

        t c seems to pervade it. It is associated in t, of sober ablisom. Every to be tee arcecture, s loal; its Gotos ed glass, in scrupulous preservation; its stately mos of ime, aors of t lords of ts tombstones, rec successive geions of sturdy yeomanry, ar;--t irregular pile, partly antiquated, but repaired and altered in tastes of various ages and octs;--tile and foot-pat ?elds, and along so an immemorial rigs venerable cottages, its public green sered by trees, under ique family mansion, standing apart in some little rural domain, but looking doeg air on tures of Englistled security, a ary transmission of ues and local attacs, t speak deeply and toucer of tion.

        It is a pleasing sigs sober melody across t ?elds, to bery in t ?nery,    quilly along to c it is still more pleasing to see t ttage doors, and appearing to exult in ts and embelliss whem.

        It is t tled repose of affe in tic se, t is, after all, t of teadiest virtues and purest enjoyments; and I ot close tory remarks better, ting t,    y:

        tion, from tled hall,

        ty dome, th shade,

        But sions numberless,

        In town or , sring middle life,

        Doo ttaged vale, and straw-roofd shed;

        tern isle has long been famed for ses

        ids a dwelling-place;

        Domestic bliss, t, like a harmless dove,

        ( endearment keeping guard,)

        All t desire h;

        But its own sharers, and approving heaven;

        t, like a ?ower deep ,

        Smiles, t is looking only at the sky.*

        * From a poem on tte, by the Reverend Rann Kennedy, A.M.
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