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 each other, that besides the sweetness in the variety, and transition, the one serv'd to exalt and perfect the taste of the other, to a degree that the senses alone can never arrive at.

Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham'd of the pleasures of humanity, lov'd me indeed, but lov'd me with dignity, in a mean equally remov'd from that sourness, or frowardness which age is unpleasingly characteris'd by, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.

In short, every thing that is generally unamiable in his season of Life, was, in him, repair'd by so many advantages, that he existed a proof manifest, at least to me, that it is not out of the power of age to please, if it lays out to please, and if making just allowances, those in that class do not forget, that it must cost them more pains, and attention, than Rh