iversal existence.]

The magnificence of the celestial, and the curiosity and variety of the
vegetable world, that have properties which, if accurately seen, yield
inconceivable astonishment to the eye of the beholder, and confess alike
the happy influence of the Deity. It charms in all the genial warmth and
softness of spring, when the earth teems with a matchless splendour,
when its green hues and universal verdure come forth in all their
pristine elegance and enchanting attractions, which constantly afforded
the contemplative mind of Albert, an inexhaustible variety of
entertaining and useful lessons.

[_NY Weekly_: The School of Nature:

The magnificent and wonderful objects of the celestial, and the
curiosity and variety of the vegetable world, as well as the
formation of all animals, reptiles, insects, and other productions
of Nature, have properties which, if accurately viewed, yield
inconceivable astonishment to the beholder.]

[_NY Weekly_: Detraction:

In a word, the whole reign confessed the happy influences of the
Deity, and charmed in all the genial softness of the spring.]

[_NY Weekly_: The School of Nature:

When spring, for example, returns with all it's native beauties, as
succeeding the gloomy aspect and forbidding horrors of winter; when
it teems with a matchless splendour and magnificence; when its
green hues and universal verdure come forth in all their pristine
elegance, and enchanting attractions.... which would afford him an
endless variety of useful and instructive lessons....]

In the meantime his new station in life called him to new
responsibilities, and a new field of action, unknown to him before,
presented itself, wherein he must act in many different capacities. He
was naturally of a domestic turn of mind, and had always declined
entering into the constant routine of engagements, to which the most
part of the fashionable world, more or less, subject themselves. He
avoided all excess and extravagance, in every respect, in which people
of this description lose the greater part of their time. He was
extremely fond of walking, as he considered gentle exercise the best
medicine of life, and he passed much of his time in strolling over the
fields or in the forest glen, amid the green wood shade, wrapped up in
solitary reflection.

[_NY Weekly_: Extraordinary Adventure of a Spanish Nobleman:

.... but his grace, who was of a domestic turn,