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,o0 Trr,e. Filiss. s�x. a contempible, uncertain creature, o?en to much tion himf_dt? and is of confequence to others only by chance. TERR]E-FILIU$. N �. Y buffhers has hitherto been w. holly with the male delinquents in our ?mzer]tte:i but I am adv?sd by a friend, that I ?ou!d not, i� I &riga a general refbrmation of manners? negl�& the other part of the fpccies, I remember? old gentleman has often told me, that he could gue? at the character of a man, aM the figure he marie in the world, by obferving that d his miflrefs There is fo much truth in this, that women are the caufe of more than half the good or ill ae'?ions of a man's bef? days: they ?re ottt very looking-gla?s? we drefs our febes at them ? and many times, like ?l. are?., unf9rtunately fill in love with our �dves from the figure we make at this decdtful light.. If a man's mif?re? is kind, it is to be feen inkira m every trifling a?ion o� t-he ?}? !_f csuel? no l?kaf?r� has its right talte to h m: