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neighbours, the more
reason
have
we to ,expect
the sama
returns
of
a lovely
carriage
-fróm
them. And
it
is
no
small advantage
in life,
for
a person to
be
much' beloved.
When he
falls
undersùdden
distresses, every;Illan
is
ready
to relieve him;
when
he
meets with
perplexing
difficuk4
ties he has the
ready assistance
of
multitudes at
his
comp
viand, because he
heath
many
lovers.
II.
It
is
a
most generous character, and
the
sign
of
a great and
good
soul, to
delight to please
those
i
with
whomwe converse.
It
is
a lovely
sight
to behold
a person.
solicitous to make
all
roundabout
him easy
and
happy:
Such amiable
souls as
these
it
is
a frequent practice; and
a pleasure
to them,
tó
contradict
their,
own
natural
in+
clinations,
in
order
to
serve
the desires, or the
interest
of
their friends.
A.happy.temper
!
that
findscká.much
satisfaction
in
this
self-
denial,
that
the very
virtue
loses
its name,
and
it
becomes
but
.another.
sort of:self-
pleas+
ing. Such
persons
are
in pain,
when they
>find
their
friends
hard
to be
pleased, and they
;
suffer sometimes
too
much
uneasiness in
themselves, because
of
the
per-
verse
humours
of
those they converse
with.
This
uih.
easiness indeed may arise
to a
criminal
excess,
but
the
opting of it
has something amiable.
I
could
wish
every soul
of
us
would
learn
a lovely
carte
'iage.
For,
III.
It
makes us resemble
God
himself.
And yet
there
áre
some
that
will
be
selfish
and churlish,
that
will
practise
the furious or the peevish passions,
through
some
reigning
principle
of
pride,
or
covetousness,
inn=
patience, or
envy.
There
are
some
that
delight
in
vei6.
ing
their
fellow-
creatures, and in
giving
them
torsi
nt
And
pain.
Part
of
these qualities make
us
a
-kin
to
brutes
of
the
worser kind, when
we
take
care
of
none
but
self,
and
are
regardless'
of
our
neighbour's
welfare.
»If
self
be
healthy
and rich, easy and
honoured,
it
is
no
matter
though
the
rest
of
the world sustain
sickness,
and poverty,
and
scandal." Others
of
these unlovely
characters
approach
nearer
to
the
spirit of
the
devil,
who
takes delight
in
tor-
turing
his fellow-
creatures, and doing what mischief he
can
ámongst
men.
But
it
is
a God
-like
temper
to
take
a
sweet
satisfaction
in
diffusing
our
goodness, and in
pleasing and
in,
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