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excluded from any place in the carriage of a well-bred man. Humanity obliges a Gentleman to give no part of humankind reproach, for what they, whom they reproach, may possibly have in common with the most virtuous and worth amongst us. When a Gentleman speaks coarsly, he has dressed himself clean to no purpose: The clothing of our minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of our bodies. To betray in a man's talk a corrupted imagination, is a much greater offence against the conversation of Gentlemen, than any negligence of dress imaginable. The man who formes himself upon those principles, which are agreeable to the dictates of [[underline]] honour [[/underline]] and [[underline]] religion [[/underline]] will fill his several duties of life with ease to himself and universal satisfaction to society. All the under parts of his behavior and such as are exposed to common observation, have their rise in him from great and noble motives. A firm and unshaken expectation of another life, makes him become this. Humanity and good-nature, fortified by the sense of virtue, has the same effect upon him, as the neglect of all goodness has upon many others. Being firmly established in all matters of importance, that certain innattention which makes mens actions look easy appears in
