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been in these Remarkable Particulars , I shall have sufficient Reason to speak of in the SequeL Etadde tot Egregias llrbes operumqt ^ e laborem . Tot conjesta manu Preeruptis oppidaSaxis . —Yivg . " But when we come to view Society , and its Usefulness in a nearer f
Perspective , we shall find it magniy upon us prodigiously , and requires a Pencil more delicate than mine to draw it in Perfection I shall confine myself therefore to a few slight Touches , which even from my Hand may perhaps give some Idea of the Beauty of the Whole . " 'Tis a Maxim indisputably true , That we ought to read Men as well as Books . What an unsociable Animal is a Learned Pedant , who has shut himself up all his life with Plato and Aristotle . For 'till the Dust and Cobwebs of his study are brush'd off on him by Conversation , he is utterly unfit for Human Society . 64
A Gtood Genius can only be cultivated this way , but lies like a Rich Diamond , whose Beauty is indiscernable 'till polished . " Good Manners , the Chief Gharacteristick of a fine Gentleman is only attainable this Way . For we learn by seeing how odious a Brute is , to shun Brutality . f ¦ " Goon Sense , which indeed is a Genius , yet can no way be so readily improv ed , as by frequent observing in good Company Nonsense and Ribaldry exploded . r
"Ik fine , neither our Health nor Wealth should suffer by it , but be both of them increas ed and amended , did not the pernicious custom of drinking too deep , which we of our nation too much indulge , invert the Order and ( Economy of all Society . There is no Conversation to be kept up in the World , without good Nature , or something which must bear its appearance and supply its Place . For this Reason , Mankind have been forced to invent an Artificial Kind of Humanity , which , as a great
Author has defin'd , is calrd Good Breeding . But when both these have their Foundations sapp'd by an Inundation of Liquor , Ruin and Desolation will undermine and lay waste that Glorious Seat of Reason which the Divine Architect has , above all others , honour d the Human Constitution with .
The most ingenious Author that ever lived has made a pretty Observation on the different Humours that Drink produces in an English Society . He says they proceed from the different Mixtures of Foreign Blood that circulates in us . We sit down , Indeed , says he , all Friends , Acquaintance and Neighbours ; but after two Bottles , you see a Dane start A up , and swear the Kingdom is his own : Saxon drinks up the whole Quart
and swears he will dispute that with him : A Norman tells them both , he will assert his Liberty ; and a Welshman cries , They arc all Foreigners and Intruders of Yesterday ; and beats them all out of the Room . Such Accidents , adds our Author , frequently happen amongst Neighbours , Children , and Cozen Germans . I wish I cou'd not say , That I have frequently observ ed it in our Most Amicable Brotherhood of Free-Masons .
" But so many better Heads and Pens have been employ'd on this Subject , that it wou'd be too presuming in me to take up more of your Time about it . I shall proceed , therefore , as I propos ed , to speak of this Out fflsstft ffintitnt mttf j ¥ tff # t % au 0 uralrt * ^ oarty in particular . " And here , my Brethren , so vast and spacious a Foundation is mark'd out for one of our Noblest Superstructures that Wit can invent and Rhetorick adorn ; that , were the Design drawn and executed by a masterly Genius , with all the necessary Oratorical Decorations proper for so sublime a Subject , we might safely say with the Poet—
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been in these Remarkable Particulars , I shall have sufficient Reason to speak of in the SequeL Etadde tot Egregias llrbes operumqt ^ e laborem . Tot conjesta manu Preeruptis oppidaSaxis . —Yivg . " But when we come to view Society , and its Usefulness in a nearer f
Perspective , we shall find it magniy upon us prodigiously , and requires a Pencil more delicate than mine to draw it in Perfection I shall confine myself therefore to a few slight Touches , which even from my Hand may perhaps give some Idea of the Beauty of the Whole . " 'Tis a Maxim indisputably true , That we ought to read Men as well as Books . What an unsociable Animal is a Learned Pedant , who has shut himself up all his life with Plato and Aristotle . For 'till the Dust and Cobwebs of his study are brush'd off on him by Conversation , he is utterly unfit for Human Society . 64
A Gtood Genius can only be cultivated this way , but lies like a Rich Diamond , whose Beauty is indiscernable 'till polished . " Good Manners , the Chief Gharacteristick of a fine Gentleman is only attainable this Way . For we learn by seeing how odious a Brute is , to shun Brutality . f ¦ " Goon Sense , which indeed is a Genius , yet can no way be so readily improv ed , as by frequent observing in good Company Nonsense and Ribaldry exploded . r
"Ik fine , neither our Health nor Wealth should suffer by it , but be both of them increas ed and amended , did not the pernicious custom of drinking too deep , which we of our nation too much indulge , invert the Order and ( Economy of all Society . There is no Conversation to be kept up in the World , without good Nature , or something which must bear its appearance and supply its Place . For this Reason , Mankind have been forced to invent an Artificial Kind of Humanity , which , as a great
Author has defin'd , is calrd Good Breeding . But when both these have their Foundations sapp'd by an Inundation of Liquor , Ruin and Desolation will undermine and lay waste that Glorious Seat of Reason which the Divine Architect has , above all others , honour d the Human Constitution with .
The most ingenious Author that ever lived has made a pretty Observation on the different Humours that Drink produces in an English Society . He says they proceed from the different Mixtures of Foreign Blood that circulates in us . We sit down , Indeed , says he , all Friends , Acquaintance and Neighbours ; but after two Bottles , you see a Dane start A up , and swear the Kingdom is his own : Saxon drinks up the whole Quart
and swears he will dispute that with him : A Norman tells them both , he will assert his Liberty ; and a Welshman cries , They arc all Foreigners and Intruders of Yesterday ; and beats them all out of the Room . Such Accidents , adds our Author , frequently happen amongst Neighbours , Children , and Cozen Germans . I wish I cou'd not say , That I have frequently observ ed it in our Most Amicable Brotherhood of Free-Masons .
" But so many better Heads and Pens have been employ'd on this Subject , that it wou'd be too presuming in me to take up more of your Time about it . I shall proceed , therefore , as I propos ed , to speak of this Out fflsstft ffintitnt mttf j ¥ tff # t % au 0 uralrt * ^ oarty in particular . " And here , my Brethren , so vast and spacious a Foundation is mark'd out for one of our Noblest Superstructures that Wit can invent and Rhetorick adorn ; that , were the Design drawn and executed by a masterly Genius , with all the necessary Oratorical Decorations proper for so sublime a Subject , we might safely say with the Poet—