ARGUMENT of the SIXTH Book. Bells at a distance.-Their effect.-A fine noon in winter. -A sheltered walk.-Meditation better than books. Our familiarity with the courfe of nature makes it appear lefs wonderful than it is.-The transformation that fpring effects in a fhrubbery described.— A mistake concerning the courfe of nature corrected.-God maintains it by an unremitted act. The amusements fashionable at this hour of the day reproved.—Animals happy, a delightful fight.—Origin of cruelty to animals. That it is a great crime proved from fcripture, -That proof illuftrated by a tale.-A line drawn between the lawful and unlawful deftruction of them. — Their good and useful properties infisted on.—Apology for the encomiums bestowed by the author on animals.-Inftances of man's extravagant praise of man. The groans of the creation fhall have an end.-A view taken of the restoration of all things. · An Invocation and an Invitation of him who shall bring it to pass.The retired man vindicated from the charge of ufele ffness. Conclufion. THERE is in fouls a fympathy with founds, In cadence fweet! now dying all away, With eafy force it opens all the cells Where Where mem'ry flept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the fcene recurs, And with it all its pleafures and its pains. How readily we wifh time spent revok'd, We mifs'd that happinefs we might have found! When |