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ONDER, Surprife and Admiration, arcwordswhich, though often confounded, denote, in ourlanguage, fentiments that are indeed allied, butthat are in fome refpeels different alfo, and dif-tincl from one another. What is new and lingu-lar , excites that fentiment which, in ftriCl proprie-ty, is called Wonder, what is unexpected, Sur-prife; and what is great or beautiful, Admiration.

We wonder at all extraordinary and uncom-mon objects, at all the rarer phenomena of na-ture, at meteors, comets, eclipfes, at lingularplants and animals, and at every thing, in lliort,with which we have before been either little ornot at all acquainted; and we Hi 11 wonder thoughforewarned of what we are to fee.

We are furprifed at thole things which we havefeen often , but which we leaf! of all expected tomeet with in the place where we find them ; weare furprifed at the fudden appearance of a friend,whom we have feen a thousand times, but whomwe did not imagine we were to fee then.