ous Order, by the fubtle Influences of Attraction: -I would only, like the Herald before that illuAtrious Hebrew *, proclaim at every Turn, Bow the Knee, and adore the Almighty Maker; magnify his eternal Name, and make his Praife, like all his Works, to be glorious. I THE The CONTENT S. A Delightful Evening Walk; the unmolested Enjoyment of fuch Pleafures owing to our late Victory over the Rebels, 1,&c. to 6,-The fetting Sun,6-Twilight; its Usefulness; ferious Confideration, 8 The dewy Coolness; its beneficial Influence on Nature; Returns of Solitude equally useful ta Man, 10-Angels our Spectators ; GOD ever préfent, comfortable Improvement of this Truth, 13The Day ended; the Swiftnefs, the Shortness of Time; the Work to be done while it lafts; to Squander it away, the most deftructive Extravagance, 16-The profound Silence, 23-Universal Ceffation of Bufinefs, 25—The Variations of Nature, pleafing and advantagious, 28-Darkness; the obliging Manner of its taking Place; wild Beasts of the Defert, and Savages in human Shape, make use. of this Opportunity, 31-Darkness renders the leaft Spark vifible, and at the fame time fnatches from our Sight all the lovely Diftinétions of Things, 35— Sleep; its chearing Nature; the Gift of Heaven ; the fine Preparatives for its Approach; the Kindnefs of Providence in guarding our Slumbers, 39 Dreams; Dreams; their unaccountable Oddness; many Peoples waking Thoughts na lefs chimerical, 44— A very fingular, and very happy Circumftance, at- fenable Timoroufness on this fanciful Occafion; the true Object of Fear the Reality and Defign of Apparitions, deduced from a Passage in Job, 50— The Owl; its gloomy Difpofition the Unholy inca- pable of relifbing the Delights of Heaven, 58-Owl fcreaming, fuppofed to be a Taken of Death; the many real Prefages of this great Change; Prepara tion pointed out and preffed, 60-The Nightingale; her charming Song; entertains the Lovers of Rem tirement; how to have a fweeter Melody in our own Breafts, 64-The very different Circumftances of Mankind, particularly of the Gay, and the Af- flicted ; Address to the Devotees of Mirth and Sen- Juality, 66-The Glow-worm, and Ignis fatuus ; the Pleasures of the World, and Powers of unen- lightened Reafon, IA Comet; imagined to be the Forerunner of Judgments; Licentioufnefs abound- ing in a Nation, a much more formidable Omen; the Distemper among the Cattle,73-Northern Lights; the Panic they occafion; the general Conflagration, 77-The Moon rifing; brightens as she advances; fuch fhould be our moral Conduct, 81+ Moon opens a majestic Scène, how worthy čár Admiration, 82- Moon, a most serviceable Appendage to our Globe, receive their All from their Saviour,86-Moon al- CON. CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE NIGH T. HE Bufinefs of the Day dispatched, and the fultry Heats abated, invited me to the Recreation of a Walk: A Walk, in one of the fineft Receffes of the Country; and in one of the most pleasant Evenings, which the Summer-Seafon produced. T THE Limes and Elms, uniting their Branches over my Head, formed a verdant Canopy, and caft a most refreshing Shade. Under my Feet lay a Carpet of Nature's Velvet; Grafs intermingled with Mofs, and embroidered with Flowers. Jeffamines, in Conjunction with Woodbines, twined around the Trees, difplaying their artless Beauties to the Eye, and difVOL. II, B fufing |