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This Laudable Quality Is Commonly Known By The Name Of Manners And Good-breeding, And Consists In A Fashionable Habit, Acquir'd By Precept And Example, Of Flattering The Pride And Selfishness Of Others, And Concealing Our Own With Judgment And Dexterity.

Some People Are Not To Be Persuaded To Taste Of Any Creatures They Have Daily Seen And Been Acquainted With, While They Were Alive; Others Extend Their Scruple No Further Than To Their Own Poultry, And Refuse To Eat What They Fed And Took Care Of Themselves; Yet All Of Them Will Feed Heartily And Without Remorse On Beef, Mutton And Fowls When They Are Bought In The Market.

The Multitude Will Hardly Believe The Excessive Force Of Education, And In The Difference Of Modesty Between Men And Women, Ascribe That To Nature, Which Is Altogether Owing To Early Instruction: Miss Is Scarce Three Years Old, But She's Spoke To Every Day To Hide Her Leg, And Rebuked In Good Earnest If She Shows It; Whilst Little Master At The Same Age Is Bid To Take Up His Coats, And Piss Like A Man.

There Is No Intrinsic Worth In Money But What Is Alterable With The Times, And Whether A Guinea Goes For Twenty Pounds Or For A Shilling, It Is The Labor Of The Poor And Not The High And Low Value That Is Set On Gold Or Silver, Which All The Comforts Of Life Must Arise From.

People Of Substance May Sin Without Being Exposed For Their Stolen Pleasure; But Servants And The Poorer Sort Of Women Have Seldom An Opportunity Of Concealing A Big Belly, Or At Least The Consequences Of It.