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512 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE III -CranSlate into itatin fttfamtttxt Around the adjoining brook that purls along The vocal grove now fretting o'er rock Now scarcely moving thro' reedy pool Now starting to sudden stream and now Gently diffus'd into limpid plain various groupe the herds and flocks compose Rural confusion On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie while others stand Half in the flood and often bending sip The circling surface In the middle droops The strong laborious ox of honest front Which incompos'd he shakes and from his sides The troublous insects lashes with his tail Returning still IV -Cranilate into ilntk $3r03e He was not man of many words and rarely begun the dis- course or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed but very weighty speaker and after he had heard full debate and observed how the house was like to be inclined took up the argument and shortly and clearly and craftily so stated it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he de- sired and if he found he could not do that he was never wiihout the dexterity to divert the debate to another time and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove incon- venient in the future He made so great show of civility and modesty and humility and always of mistrusting his own judg- ment and esteeming his with whom he conferred for the present that he seemed to have no opinions or resolutions but such as he contracted from the information and instruction he received upon the discourses of others whom he had wonderful art of govern- ing and leading into his principles and inclinations whilst they believed that he wholly depended upon their counsel and advice No man had ever greater power over himself or was less the man that he seemed to be which shortly after appeared to every body when he cared less to keep on the mask