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NYEP(D.752.030
31 Aug 1752:11,12,21,22 (282)
Of Agriculture, it's Antiquity, Necessity, Advantage, &c.
From a late author.
Sir, I take a sensible delight in travelling into
different counties near the time of harvest, and surveying
the face of the country, adorned with a sort of gaiety and
smile, and overspread with waving crops of various
complexion and appearance. As I am a follower of nature, I
take greater pleasure in the silent contemplation of these
objects, than in the noise, flutter, and artificial glare of
great towns and cities and can safely say, I am never less
along, than when I am thus engaged without company. . . [1
1/2 column] happiness seems to have fixed her seat in rural
scenes: . . . [5 lines] Hither also fancy strolls to gather
up the most agreeable images of things: The Assembly, the
lighted room, the equipage, the embroidery, do not sooth and
entertain the mind of man in any degree like verdant plain,
the wavy field, the artless stream, . . . [2 lines] And the
ladies must excuse my want of taste or manners in thinking,
the clean, tucked-up nimble lass makes a more pleasing
figure, than the Dutchess, who sweeps half the Mall with her
enormous petticoat; . . . [1 3/4 columns]
. . . The first iron was it is likely, hammered for the
use of the fields, and the first musick perhaps sounded at
the rural festivities. . .
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