Reflections Critical And Moral On the Letters of the Late Earl of Chesterfield
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Thofe who are in the fecret, aui mutually pradife this ineckaKical trade of compliment, \vithoatany mean- ing, it is the RioH ludicroua farce in nature. Fie os SECTION III; 45 it, my Lord ! A fhame upon that policy, which, makes no diftia&ion between prudence and artifice 5 between benevolence and flattery ; between com placency and compliment ; between wifdom and craft ; between the modefl rsferve of the man, ai the profeiTed. Diffimulation cf the courtier ; which excludes fincerity and friend...feip, true philofo-phy, true virtue and true religion 1 * VANITY, or an appetite for farae, which Lord Chefterfield has made the motive and foundation of morality, and acknowledges to have been the prin cipal incentive te his good actions, 5a- iifelf a vice ; or a virtue, if a virtue, which mufl difpcfe the praftiferof it to adopt every vice or flly in faftuon. A fteady perfeverance ia the practice cf what ii righteous, juft and. 'good, in oppofition to the fafhioa and corruption of the world has, and we hope, will ever be confidered in the eftiraaticn both of leafon, and revelation, as one of the inoll iignsl iaflance5 f and higheft exertions of true virtue : bat Lord Chef- t^riield, we prefume, was the fir philofc-pher, wh coolly sad fobcrly recommended the fafhion and cor- iupt opinions of the world, as the fbnda'rd by which, and in cosfermity to which, you are to form your moral conduct.
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