xvx, 7err,e-Fihus: xo fon., or virtue, or all of theft'. The gratification thn humour, whatev, er it'be, is generally what we, �mean by the word I le?rei and yet we are fo tily friends, and at-?ce with our d?r whimties? that' we make ?i?. to call our humour by ? better name, and endsyour to ju?ifv it (at I?}) to our felves, by dir?uifing it under f?me of the more cious titles above-mention'd.. 'Twou'd be endlel3, as well as impertinent, toen- ter into a detail or divifion of the variety of humour. The r?der will eafily recolle& his own pleafure?, and tho? of his acquaintance, and by what falfe lo- gick, what plearant 10phifiries every one ju?ifies hiv particular' inclination. For my own part, I am afraid I mu? conrider my?lf (among? multitudes o?' other people in the beginning of'ti?}) as under the condu& of humour rathe? than any thing el&i for I be!ie?'e I $a:l ncve? ke thought to have made a proper court to my in- terea, by enuing into a ra? unadvif:d war with the ?uit?u? and ?werful provinces of ignorance and' idlene s, per?ur and profanen O. Could- I have kept my countenance, or not 1oK my temper, at the fo. lemn fialking gravity, which, with an air of liner- rance and pious contemplation? cove?'d the deficien- cies offi? and honefi?, T?n.?-F?LtUS might now have lived in lure an?certain ho?s of Ning one day a fellow of acollbge, and in the receipt of twenty ?unds a y?rj but tinct it was not my humour, I mu? endsyour to repair the lo? of that comfort- ab',e cxpe&ation, by perfuading my reader that i =m a con?iffor ?r the unprofitaNe intere?s o? truth an8 liberty. and publick go?; a chara&er fomewMt fin- tique and ?idieulous enough. 'Tis, however, a pleafute which I wou'd not ex- change fbr any other, to think, that the world ?ou&d with people as wrong-h?dyd as myfclt; and fuch too, as dare to p?evere m the? error? F q �with
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