<span style="color:grey">Oo t pursuits of man,

    <span style="color:grey">Friendly to t, to virtue and to peace,

    tranger er, must not con?ne ions to tropolis.

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

    In some countries, 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 congenial 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 evince a tact for rural occupation. t reat in ty of tropolis, ion of uring of s, as  of erprise. Even tunate individuals,  of din and traf?c, contrive 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 commonly, a look of raction. 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 transient meetings, t deal brie?y in commonplaces. t but ter--its ricies ime to be o a ?ow.

    It is in try t to ural feelings. ies and negative 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, music, ing implements of all kinds, are at s no constraint, eits or , in true spirit of ality, provides t, and leaves every one to partake according to ion.

    taste of tivation of land, and in udied Nature intently, 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?ecting trees, s bosom, and trout roaming fearlessly about its limpid ers; emple, or sylvan statue, groity to the seclusion.

    t a feures of park scenery; but  deligive talent e tentatious abodes of middle life. t ation, t unpromising and scanty portion of land, in taste, becomes a little paradise.

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

    tune and re?nement in try, aste and elegance in rural economy t descends 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  countries, t a union of elegance and 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 can never entirely destroy. In try, too, t orders of society seem to approaco be more disposed to blend and operate favorably upon eacinctions bet appear to be so marked and impassable as in ties. ty 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 independence. t must be confessed, is not so universally t present as it ates e years of distress, absorbed ts of try, almost annied turdy race of small farmers. t casual breaks in tem I ioned.

    In rural occupation, t leads a man fortural grandeur and beauty; it leaves o ted upon by t and most elevating of external in?uences. Suc  be vulgar. t, ting in an intercourse ies. ance and reserve, and is glad to inctions of rank, and to enter into t, felt enjoyments of common life. Indeed, ts of try bring, men more and more togeto  reason ry are more popular among try; and ies,  repining more generally 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 C into our closets all toral ers of otries appear as if ture an occasional visit, and become acquainted  tiss  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 continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness.

    t c seems to pervade it. It is associated in t, of sober ablisom. Every to be tence.  te arcecture, s loal; its Gotos ed glass, in scrupulous preservation; its stately monuments of ime, ancestors of t lords of ts tombstones, recording successive generations of sturdy yeomanry, ar;--t irregular pile, partly antiquated, but repaired and altered in tastes of various ages and occupants;--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 doecting 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,  cranquilly 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 affection in tic scene, t is, after all, t of teadiest virtues and purest enjoyments; and I cannot close tory remarks better, ting t,  y:

    <span style="color:grey">tion, from tled hall,

    <span style="color:grey">ty dome, th shade,

    <span style="color:grey">But c mansions numberless,

    <span style="color:grey">In town or , sring middle life,

    <span style="color:grey">Doo ttaged vale, and straw-roofd shed;

    <span style="color:grey">tern isle has long been famed for scenes

    <span style="color:grey">ic ?nds a dwelling-place;

    <span style="color:grey">Domestic bliss, t, like a harmless dove,

    <span style="color:grey">( endearment keeping guard,)

    <span style="color:grey">All t desire h;

    <span style="color:grey">But its own sharers, and approving heaven;

    <span style="color:grey">t, like a ?ower deep ,

    <span style="color:grey">Smiles, t is looking only at the sky.*

    <span style="color:grey">* From a poem on tte, by the Reverend Rann Kennedy, A.M.