ERRATA. PAG. 5. Line 21. of the Note, for are, r. is. p. 16. 1. 6. for tour, r. tower. p. 19. l. 11. r. Sighs. p. 24. 1. 22. for Thoughts, r. Strokes. ON A FLOWER-GARDEN. IN A LETTER ТО А LAD Y. By JAMES HERVEY, A. B. I look upon the Pleasure, which we take in a Garden, as one of the most innocent Delights in human Life. A Garden was the Habitation of our firft Parents before the Fall. It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with Calmness and Tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent Paffions at Reft. It gives us a great Infight into the Contrivance and Wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable Subjects for Meditation. Spect. Vol. VII. No 477• LONDON: Printed for J. and J. RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's Church-yard; And J. LEAKE, at Bath. MDCC XLVI. REFLECTIONS ΟΝ Α FLOWER-GARDEN. In a LETTER to a LADY. MADAM, S OME-time ago, my Meditations took a Turn among the Tombs: They vifited the awful and me lancholy Manfions of the Dead*: And you was pleased to favour them with your Attention. — May I, now, beg the Honour of your Company, in a more inviting and delightful Excurfion? In a beautiful ར B "Difcourfes on the Vanity of the Creature, which "reprefent the Barrennefs of every Thing in this "World, and its Incapacity of producing any folid 66. of |