Oh! friendly to the best pursuits of man,
Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace,
Domestic life in rural pleasures past!
COWPER.
THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character, must not e his observations to the metropolis.
He must go forth into the try; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wahrough parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about try churches; attend wakes and fairs, and other rural festivals; and cope with the people in all their ditions, and all their habits and humors.
In some tries, the large cities absorb the wealth and fashion of the nation; they are the only ?xed abodes of elegant and intelligent society, and the try is inhabited almost entirely by boorish peasantry. In England, on the trary, the metropolis is a mere gathering-place, eneral rendezvous, of the polite classes, where they devote a small portion of the……（内容加载失败！）
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