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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 differences
of
wit or
wealth
which have
raised him
above
some
-of
his fellows.
He
knows
that
others have
a
right
to some
degrees
of
love
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 them
with 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 figure
of
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
of
conversation
with
hearing
his own
discourse, or
speak-
ing bis
own
praises
:
He
limits
the
motions
of
his
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 have
no
room
in-
their
esteem, no
place
in
their heart
Prov.
xxiv.
9.
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