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World will rejoice if a _cowardly spirit_ should _drive him thither_.]
[Footnote f: [_th' omitted Legacy._] About three or four months ago, the following Paragraph, or something like it, appear'd in the Morning Papers.--"Yesterday Lord ----, who had been called into the country by the sudden Illness of a noble Lady not twenty miles from _Windsor_, return'd to Town with an account of her Death and his Disappointment, to an anxious Family in _Lower Grosvenor Street_."--This Article of Intelligence would, probably, have been unnotic'd by me, had not a Person without any previous notice, exclaim'd aloud in a Coffee-House where I happened to be,--_I am glad of it, by G----d_.--Upon being ask'd by some of the Company, what might occasion such a _joyful?Asseveration_,--he read the above paragraph,--and the _whole room_ express'd an almost equal satisfaction.]
[Footnote g: [_Then Folly titter'd._] Mankind, who are accustomed to have their attention awaken'd to acts of daring Vice, or pre-eminent Virtue, may think the mean, base, cowardly, hypocritical Character not sufficiently interesting to claim their particular notice;--and that the exposing to the general knowledge of the World, those miserable, sneaking qualities which have not courage to rise into general notice, and are too mean to be long the topics of any conversion, is drawing aside the veil where it ought to be covered with thicker folds.--But when the mean Character, conscious of the universal contempt of those in his own rank, endeavours, by occasional smiles, and a silky demeanour, to acquire some degree of respect from the subordinate stations, his hopes, surely, ought to be dash'd;--and he deserves well of Society and of Virtue who performs the office.--Tho', I believe, in the _Character before me_, the _gentle_ semblance of Virtue will not pass current with those who possess the least suspicion, or the most ordinary penetration.--_But more of this hereafter._]
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