The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical And Critical 34, Pt. 1
The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical And Critical 34, Pt. 1
Lionel Thomas Berguer
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An* they will take it so; if not, he's plain. To extol polished external manners as constituting the whole duty of man^ or to declaim against them as utterly inconsistent with truth, and the respect we owe to ourselves, are extremes equally to be avoided. Let no one believe that the show of hu- manity is equal to the reality ; nor let any one, from the desire of pleasing, depart from the line of , truth, or stoop to mean condescension. But to pre- sume favourably of all men ; to consider them a...s worthy of our regard, till we have evidence of the contrary; to be inclined to render them services; and to entertain confidence in their inclinations to follow a similar conduct; constitute a temper, which every man, for his own peace, and for the peace of society, .ought to improve and exhibit. Now, thi^ is the temper essential to polished manners ; and the external show of civilities is a banner held forth, an* nouncing to all men, that we hold, them in due re- spect, and are disposed to oblige them.
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