509 / 652
SËCT.
IVA
IN
REGARD
TO OVRSEL'G'`ES:
4951
circumstances,
and
fix
him
in
a
point of
light
and
honour,
he
shall
be
the
last
man
that
proclaims the
justice
which
the
world
bath done
him,
and ascribes
it all
to
the
favour
of
God
and man.
He carries
none
of
those meannesses
about
him
by
which
little
souls always distinguish
them-
selves,
and betray and expose their
folly
;
for they
are
vainly fond
of their
own new
title and
character, and
speedy
in
demanding due notice
of
it
from
others..
The
humble
man
practised the
true
sublime in his lower
stafr
tion, and
you see
nothing exalted
in him now,
though
his
inward worth
is
rendered
more conspicuous.
His friends
and
his
kindred
find
him
the same man
still.
His
gar-
ments of
honour
sit
close
about
him
and
swell
not
his
figure
or appearance. His titles add nothing
to
his
own
idea
of
himself,
nor
dó
they
tempt
him
to assume
any
peculiar
airs.
He
does
not
imagine
that
his
opinions
are
now
grown more
sacred or more worthy to be imposed,
nor
does he
give a loose to
any
of
his
passions with
more
freedom
or sovereignty. Before
the
hour of
his
advance
-
merit he
was
a diamond
in
a
cabinet, and
he
shone
at
home
and gave
light and beauty
to
what was
near
him
:
And
now he
is
the same
jewel set
in
a public
ornament
of
gold to
glitter
and
give
light
to the world,
but
he owns
that
he
borrows
it
all from heaven.
Place
him on
high
and
displace him again,
his
constant
business
is
to
ap-
prove
himself
to
God
and
to
remember
that
he
is
but
a
man.
How different
a character
is
this from what
multi-
tudes
assume
in
our
day
?
How
many
are impatient
of
obscurity
and
yet
worthless
of
observation
!
They
are
daily
and hourly
pushing forward into every
company
and
fond
of
shewing themselves
to
the world
betimes,
while
their talents are
very
few
and their furniture
ex-
ceeding
slender.
The
vain man
is
not content
to
enjoy
the common
pleasures
of
conversation,
but
he
assumes
the first
place
in
it,
and
affects
to outshine
all
the circle.
He
is
not
satisfied to
have said
a
wise
or
a
witty
thing
upon a
proper
occasion,
or
to tell
it
perhaps
to a
friend,
but without
any occasion
at
all,
he
must once a
week,
repeat
his
wise
sayings to
the
world
:
He makes them
often
hear
his
jests
over again
till
they
are
weary,
and
is
ever
acquainting
new
company
with
the
pert
repartees
that
he
had made
some days
before.
These forward and
K