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fortable, or indeed tolerable, without my
Aſſiſtance ; there could be no right Under¬
flanding betwixt Prince and People, Lord and
Servant, Tutor and Pupil, Friend and Friend,
Man and Wife, Buyer and Seller, or any Per¬
ſon however otherwiſe related, if they did not
cowardly put up ſmall Abufes, fneakingly
Cringe and Submit, or after all fawningly
Scratch and Flatter cach other. This you'll
fay is much, but you fhall yet hear what is
more; tell me then, can any one love another’
that firft hates himfelf? Is it likely any one
ſhould agree with a Friend that is firt fallen:
out with his own Judgment? Or isit probable
he fhould be any Way pleafing to anòther,
who is‘a perpetual Plague and Trouble to
himſelf? This is ſuch a Paradox that none
can be ſo mad as to maintain. Well, but if
1am excluded and barr’d out, every Man would
be fo far from being able to bear with others,
that he would be Burdenfome to himfelf, and
confequently uncapable of any Eafe or Satif¬
fation. Nature, that toward fome of her
Produ&s plays the Stepmother rather than the
indulgent Parent, has endowed fome Men with
that unhappy Peevifhnefs of Difpofition, as to
naufeate and diflike whatever is their own,
and much admire what belongs to other Per¬
fons, fo as they cannot in any wife enjoy what:
their Birth or Fortunes has beftowed upom
them: For what Grace is there in the greateſt
Beauty, if it be alway clouded with Frowns:
and Sullennefs ? Or what: Vigour im Youth,
if it be harraffed with a pettifh, dogged, waſ
pith, ill Humour? None: fure.. Nor indeed!
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