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for the eftablifhment of popery; he allow the fiudent to pafs a great
does not think the prefent oaths part of the year in groves and bow-
fuiticiently binding, and wirties that crs. But what may be done in one
fome better fecurity could be i'ound place by particular opportunities,
for the fucceffion of the houfe of may be performed in another by
Hanover. He is zealous for the peculiar diligence. A (hepherd of
naturalizatioa of foreign prote- Bohemia has, by long abode ia
ftants, and rejoiced at the admif- the forefts, enabled himfelf to un-
fion of the Jews to the English pri- deriland the voice of birds, at leaft
vileges, becaufe he thought a Jew he relates with great confidence a
would never be a papift. ftory of which the credibility may
be confidered by the learned.
" 19:29, 28 February 2012 (UTC) As I was fitting (faid he) withia
The IDLER. 2 hollow rock, and watching my
Iheep that fed in the valley ; I
MANY naturalifts are of opi- heard two vultures interchangeably nion, that the animals which crying on the fummit of the cliff. we commonly confider as mute. Both voices were carneft and deli- have the power of imparting their berate. My curiofity prevailed ever thoughts to one another. That they my care of the flock; I climbed can exprefs general fenfations is flowly and filently from crag to very certain ; every being that can crag, concealed among the fhvubs, utter founds has a different voice till I found a cavity, where I might for pieafure and for pain. The fit and liften without fufFering, or hound informs his fellows when he giving dilturbance. fcents his game ; the hen calls her I foon perceived, that my labour chickens to their food by her cluck, would be well repaid ; for an old and drives them from danger by vulture was fitting on a naked pro- ber fcream. minence, with her young about Birds have the greateft variety of her, whom fhe w-s inltruding in rote; ; they have indeed a variety, the arts of a vultures life, and pre- which feems almolt fufficient to paring, by the lad lefture, for their
make a fpeech adequate to the purpofes of a life, which is regu- lated by inftinfl, and can admit little change or improvement. To the cries of birds, curioiity or fu-
final difrniffion to the mountains and the Ikics.
My children, faid the old vul- ture, you will lefs want my in- ftrudlions, becaufe vou- have had
perRition has been always atten- my praflice before your eyes ;
live, many have lludied the lan- guage of the feathered tribes, and lome have boafted that they under- ftood it.
1 he moll fkilful or mofl confident
you have ft-en me fnatch from the farm the hcufhold fowl ; you have feen me feize the leveret in the bufh, and the kid in the paf- ture ; you know how to fix your
interpreters of the fylvan dialogues talons, and how to balance your have been commonly found among flight when you are laden with the philofophers of the ealf, in a your prey. But you remember country where the calmnefs of the the talle of more delicious food ; air, and the mildnefs of the feafons, I have often regaled you with the
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