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 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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