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From the Dutch . — -By a young Lady of Groningen . TRANSLATED BY DR . BOWROTQ . How green is yon valley—how songful its trees , Its blossoms in glory are dancing ; What sunshine—what fragrance—what beauties are these !
Tis an Eden all fair and entrancing . Indeed , in the world there are scenes where the soul Can revel in joys without measure ; Where its pinions expanded spurn every control , And its pulses all gladden with pleasure . Come , look on these charms—see yon mountain that towers To talk with the clouds it divideth ,
And hear that sweet streamlet that sings to the flowers As gently and gaily it glideth . And lo ! the gold harvests are ripe—and their gold With sapphires and rubies is shaded—Indeed ' tis a transport such bliss to behold With such beauty and brightness pervaded ! Deep , deep in the dell is the husbandman ' s cot ,
Where labour and peace are united , Where fame never brought discontent to his lot , And ambition a bud never blighted . And near is the village—g * o reckon the men , And the joys that around them are hovering ; Their joys—you may count them , and count them again—And thousands are left for discovering .
For pleasure is Nature ' s first impulse—it springs Spontaneous from earth ' s fertile bosom ; It flutters—it soars on the lark ' s skyward wing's—It breathes on the snow-drop ' s pure blossom . It shines in the day-star and night stars—it speaks In the cicada ' s chirp at the even ; In the stillness it rests—in the zephyrs it wakes , And it fills all the concave of heaven . * Book XIII , ch . v ., p . 169—172 .
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in the court of Dionysius . In short , the philosophy of Socrates has rendered more service to the general interests of human nature than to the freedom and well-being of Greece ; and , doubtless , this is the nobler praise * . ' The independence of Greece was of no long continuance ; but , during its short career , it deposited seeds of improvement , which ripened and bore fruit long after the fall of Grecian freedom ; it set in motion principles of thought and action , which were subsequently diffused to the utmost limits of the Roman empire , and thus prepared the way for more extensive and beneficial changes in the moral and social condition of mankind .
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178 The Philosophy of the History of Mankind *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/34/
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