ous Order, by the subtle Influences of Attraction : -I would only, like the Herald before that illustrious Hebrew *, proclaim at every Turn, Bow the Knee, and adore the Almighty Maker; magnify his eternal Name, and make his Praise, like all his Works, to be glorious. 53 The CONTENTS. A Delightful Evening Walk; the unmolested late Victory over the Rebels, 1, &c. to 6,- The Setting Sun, 6-Twilight; its Usefulness; serious Confidera- tion, 8-The dewy Coolness; its beneficial Influence on Nature; Returns of Solitude equally useful ta Man,10-Angels our Spectators; GOD ever pre Sent, comfortable Improvement of this Truth, 13- The Day ended; the Swiftness, the Shortness of Time; the Work to be done while it lasts; to Squander it away, the most destructive Extrava- gance, 16-The profound Silence, 23-Univerfal Cef- fation of Business, 25-The Variations of Nature, pleafing and advantagious, 28-Darkness; the ob liging 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 visible, and at the same time snatches from our Sight all the lovely Distinctions of Things, 35- Sleep; its chearing Nature; the Gift of Heaven; the fine Preparatives for its Approach; the Kind- Dreams; their unaccountable Oddness; many Peoples waking Thoughts no less chimerical, 44- A very fingular, and very happy Circumstance, at- Sonable Timorousness on this fanciful Occafion; the true Object of Fears the Reality and Design of Apparitions, deduced from a Passage in Job, 50- The Owl; its gloomy Disposition, the Unholy inca- flicted; Address to the Devotees of Mirth and Sen- Suality, 66-The Glow-worm, and Ignis fatuus; the Pleasures of the World, and Powers of unen- lightened Reason, 71-A Comet, imagined to be the Forerunner of Judgments; Licentiousness 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 Such should be our moral Conduct, 81-Moon opens a majestic Scene how worthy our Admiration, 82- Moon, a most serviceable Appendage to our Globe, receive their All from their Saviour, 86-Moon al- : CON- CONTEMPLATIONS ΟΝ ΤΗЕ NIGH Τ. T HE Business of the Day dispatched, and the sultry Heats abated, invited me to the Recreation of a Walk: A Walk, in one of the finest Receffes of the Country; and in one of the most pleasant Evenings, which the Summer-Season produced. THE Limes and Elms, uniting their Branches over my Head, formed a verdant Canopy, and cast a most refreshing Shade. Under my Feet lay a Carpet of Nature's Velvet; Grass intermingled with Moss, and embroidered with Flowers. Jessamines, in Conjunction with Woodbines, twined around the Trees, displaying their artless Beauties to the Eye, and difVOL. II, fufing B |