Essays On Important Subjects
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77 BUT fuppofe fome fhould fay, For what have we taken all this pains, made all this buftle, and fpent all this money? have other people gorged themfelves with deli- cacies and fumptuous banquets, and mufb we come at lad only to the hare's foot, and be forced to make good our promifes whether we will or not?
I CONFESS, fir, I cannot anfwer thefe arguments, and therefore it is high time to conclude.
y &c.
ESSAY [78] ESSAY VI.
On PRACTICABLE MEN.
SIR, AMBITIOUS men, when they have any thing to do..., will employ in it, fuch who are fit for it j fome to flatter, others to frighten ; fome to lie and betray for them in private, others to harangue and defend them in publick. All thefe are a neceflfary fort of Swifs, or rather knights of the poft, without the formality of fwear- ing-, and accordingly as men are difpofed, or not difpofed, for thefe laudable employ- ments, they are called Practicable or Im- practicable men.
Br PRACTICABLE MEN. 79 By this rule, he who has a judgment, a foul, and a conference of his own, is a humourift, and unfit for bufinefs ; he is an Impracticable Man : but he who has a prudential fpirit, pliable enough to take the impreffions of the times, and to fup- port the language and livery of the day, is worth having, or even buying ; he is a Practicable Man.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
77 BUT fuppofe fome fhould fay, For what have we taken all this pains, made all this buftle, and fpent all this money? have other people gorged themfelves with deli- cacies and fumptuous banquets, and mufb we come at lad only to the hare's foot, and be forced to make good our promifes whether we will or not?
I CONFESS, fir, I cannot anfwer thefe arguments, and therefore it is high time to conclude.
y &c.
ESSAY [78] ESSAY VI.
On PRACTICABLE MEN.
SIR, AMBITIOUS men, when they have any thing to do..., will employ in it, fuch who are fit for it j fome to flatter, others to frighten ; fome to lie and betray for them in private, others to harangue and defend them in publick. All thefe are a neceflfary fort of Swifs, or rather knights of the poft, without the formality of fwear- ing-, and accordingly as men are difpofed, or not difpofed, for thefe laudable employ- ments, they are called Practicable or Im- practicable men.
Br PRACTICABLE MEN. 79 By this rule, he who has a judgment, a foul, and a conference of his own, is a humourift, and unfit for bufinefs ; he is an Impracticable Man : but he who has a prudential fpirit, pliable enough to take the impreffions of the times, and to fup- port the language and livery of the day, is worth having, or even buying ; he is a Practicable Man.
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