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A JOURNAL

OF

SUMMER TIME

IN

THE COUNTRY.

I find one book of observations, begun in the year 1646, wherein I have noted many useful things, having the word ETERNITY at the top of many pages, by the thought of which I was quickened to spend my time well. It is a great comfort to me now, in my old age, to find that I was so diligent in my youth;-for in those books I have noted how I spent my time.

BISHOP PATRICK, Autobiography.

There is no saying shocks me so much as that which I hear very often: - That a man does not know how to pass his time. "Twould have been ill spoken by Methusalem in the nine hundred and sixty-ninth year of his life. . . . But if any man be so unlearned as to want entertainment of the little intervals of accidental solitude which frequently occur in almost all conditions, it is truly a great shame both to his parents and himself. For a very small portion of any ingenious art will stop up all those gaps of our time; either music, or painting, or history, or gardening, or twenty other things, will do it usefully and pleasantly.

COWLEY, Of Solitude.

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
Delightful industry enjoyed at home,

And Nature in her cultivated trim,

Dress'd to his taste, inviting him abroad.

COWPER, Task, B. III.

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AUTHOR OF "JEREMY TAYLOR, A BIOGRAPHY."

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

MDCCC XLIX.

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