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8 THE MAN OF FEELING.
Harley did not want for Tome monitors
of this fort. He was frequently told of
men, whofe fortunes enabled them to
command all the luxuries of life, whofe
fortunes were of their own acquirement;
his envy was endeavoured to be excited
by a defcription of their happinefe, and
his emulation by a recital of the means
which had procured it
Harley was too apt to hear thefe lec¬
tures with indifference ; nay fometimes
they got the better of his temper; and
asthe inflances were not always amiable,
provoked, on his part, fome reflexions
which I am perfuaded his good nature
would elfe have avoided.
Indeed I have obferved one ingredient,
fomewhat neceffary in a man’s compofl-
tion towards happinefs, which people of
feeling would do well to learn ; a certain
refped for the follies of mankind: for
there are fo many fools whom the opi¬
nion of the world entitles to regard,
whom