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 ,o0 Trr,e. Filiss. s�x. a contempible, uncertain creature, o?en to much tion himf_dt and is of confequence to others only by chance. TERR]E-FILIU$. N �. Y buffhers has hitherto been w. holly with the male delinquents in our mzer]tte:i but I am advsd by a friend, that I ou!d not, i� I &riga a general refbrmation of manners negl�& the other part of the fpccies, I remember old gentleman has often told me, that he could gue at the character of a man, aM the figure he marie in the world, by obferving that d his miflrefs There is fo much truth in this, that women are the caufe of more than half the good or ill ae'ions of a man's bef days: they re ottt very looking-glas we drefs our febes at them  and many times, like l. are., unf9rtunately fill in love with our �dves from the figure we make at this decdtful light.. If a man's mifre is kind, it is to be feen inkira m every trifling aion o� t-he } !_f csuel no lkafr� has its right talte to h m:

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