SECT, III.] IN REGARD OF MEN. 48% favour of all around him. He remembers that it is of one-blood God has made all nations, and he is moulded Of the same dust with his fellows, and he thinks rather of those essentials of human nature wherein he lies upon a level with the meanest son' of Adam; than of those acci- dental differencesof wit or wealth which have raised him above some -of his fellows. He knows that others have a right to some degrees oflove and esteem as well as self,, they have some : pretence to understanding and merit as well as he. If the poor and the ignorant ask ,him a question, though it be an impertinent one, he does not turn short upon themwith a smart and surly speech, nor turn, away with a disdainful silence : He makes the child and the servant love him by the soft and friendly answer he gives even to their needless queries. His behaviour to his inferiors has something in it so engaging, that there is not the meanest figureof mankind goes from his presence without a pleasing image of his goodness left upon their minds. When he comes into company with his equals, he does not seize the dictator's chair, nor affect to shew himself in any superior forms. He comes to learn rather than to instruct, and nòt only gives others leave to speak in their turn, but he hears their opinion with patience and pleasure, and pays due deference to all the appearances of reason in their discourse, though he may sometimes happen to prefer his own sentiment. He is not fond Of ingrossing the talk to himself, nor of filling up the hour ofconversation with hearing his own discourse, or speak- ing bis own praises : He limits the motions ofhis tongue, be pays to every one the rights of society, and he enjoys the esteem and love of all. Humility carries in it all the sincere arts of complaisance, and is the shortest way to form and accomplish the man of breeding. But a swelling haughty creature is a hateful thing. Insolence of heart and tongue are forbidding qualities. A proud look is an abomination to the Lord," and an abhorred thing amongst men; Prov. v. 17. Such persons may be feared but they are -never loved They may have many cringes and compliments paid to- them by their neighbours, but they haveno room in- their esteem, no place in their heart Prov. xxiv. 9. " A
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