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to every one.--It contains the picture of a _sordid Man
in the extreme_, who was capable of seeking for emolument in the
Injustice of a Parent to his Children;--and, being repulsed in this hope,
made the basest resolutions, but possess'd not sufficient courage to put
them in execution.--And his reward is _Disappointment for Life_.
It is very extraordinary,--but the polite _Clubs_ and _Circles_ were
alive at this event.--What then must that Man be, whose Miseries
furnish delight to his Fellow-Creatures!--But when a _money-loving
spirit_ alone _leads_ a man to the Altar,--the 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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