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to those nerves it was intended to refresh. A generous mind is of all other the most sensible of Praise and Dispraise; and a noble spirit is as much invigorated with its due proportion of honour and applause, as it is depressed by neglect and contempt: But it is only persons far above the common level who are thus affected with either of these extremes; as in a Thermometer, it is only the purest and most sublimated spirit that is either contracted or dilated by the benignity of inclemency of the season. [[note]] No: 243 [[/note]] I shall consider virtue as it is in itself of an amiable nature, after having premised, that I understand by the word Virtue such a general notion as is affixed to it by the writers of morality, and which by devout men generally goes under the name of religion, and by men of the world under the name of honour. Hypocrisy itself does great honour, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of Virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind It is a common observation, that the most abandoned to all sense of
