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 ee Fellows in the public Streets of London who are not uffering but deerving Punihment by o tanding. He had a Night-cap belonging to Molly on his Head, and his two large Eyes, the Moment the Rug fell, tared directly at Jones; o that when the Idea of Philoophy was added to the Figure now dicovered, it would have been very difficult for any Spectator to have refrained from immoderate Laughter.

I quetion not but the Surprize of the Reader will be here equal to that of Jones; as the Supicions which mut arie from the Appearance of this wie and grave Man in uch a Place, may eem o inconitent with that Character, which he hath, doubtles, maintained hitherto, in the Opinion of every one.

But to confes the Truth, this Inconitency is rather imaginary than real. Philoophers are compoed of Fleh and Blood as well as other human Creatures; and however ublimated and refined the Theory of thee may be, a little practical Frailty is as incident to them as to other Mortals. It is, indeed, in Theory only and not in Practice, as we have before hinted, that conits the Difference: For tho’ uch great Beings think