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iqkens of him are , he loves men better upon relation than experience ; for he is exceedingly enamoured of strangers , and none quickKer weary pf his friends . He charges you at first meeting with all his secrets , and on better acquaintance grows more reserved . Indeedjie is one that mistakes much his abusers for friends , and his friends for enemies ; and he apprehends your hate in nothing so much as in good counsel .

Qne that is flexible with any thing but reason ; and then only perverse ; and you may better entice ' than persuade him . A servant to every tale and flatterer , and whom the last man still works over . A great , affefter of wits and such prettinesses ; and his company is costly to him , for he seldom has it but invited . His friendship commonly is begun in a supper , and lost in lending money . The tavern is a dangerous place to him , for to drink and to be drunk , is with him all one , and his brain

is sooner quenched than his thirst . He is drawn into naughtiness with company , but suffers alone , and the bastard commonly laid to his charge . One that will be patiently abused , and take exceptions a month after when he understands it , and one cannot endear him more than by cozening him , and it is a temptation to those that would not . One discoverable in all silliness to all men but himself , and you may take any man ' s knowledge of him better than his own . He will

promise the same thing to twenty , and rather than deny one break with * all . One that has no power over himself , over his business , oyer his friends , but a prey and pity to all ; and if his fortunes once sink , men iuiickly cr , y , ' Alas ! ' and forget him . .

A MERE- GREAT . MAN Is so much heraldry without honour ; himself less real than his title . His virtue is , that he was his-father ' s son , and all the expectation of him to beget another . A man that Hves merely to preserve another ' s memory , and let us know who died so many years ago . One of just as much use as his images ; only he differs in this , that he can speak

himself , and save the fellow of Westminster a labour ; and he remembers nothing better than what was out of his life . His grandfather and their acts are his discourse , and he tells them with more glory than they did theni ; and it is well they did enough , or else he had wanted matter : his other studies are his sports , and those vices that are fit for great men . Every vanity of his has his officer , and is a serious employment for his servants . He talks loud . and obscenely , and scurvily , as a part of state , and they hear him with reverence . All pood qualities

are below him , and especially learning ; except some parcels of the Chronicle , and the writing of his name , which he learns 10 write not to be read . He is merely of his servants faction , and their instrument for their friends and enemies , and is always least thanked for his own courtesies . They that fool him mos . t do most with him , ana he little thinks how many laugh at him bare-headed . No man is kept in i -

gno rance more of himself and men , for he hears nought but flattery , and what is fit to be spoken , truth , with so much preface , chat it loses itself . Thus he lives till his tomb be made ready , and is then a grave statue ta posterity . ' "' "' " ' " ' ' . ' - '" ' — --,, - .

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LONDON: Article 1
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 2
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 3
MASONIC ANECDOTE. Article 8
ACCOUNT OF JOHN WATKINS, L. L. D. Article 10
JOHN COUSTOS, FREEMASON. Article 12
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF COLONEL MAEK, Article 16
LETTER Article 17
TRANSLATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LETTER TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, Article 17
CHARACTER OF RICHARD CUMBERLAND, Article 18
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 19
AN ACCOUNT OF DRUIDISM. Article 20
LIFE OF PHILIP EGALITE, LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS. Article 25
ACCOUNT OF PENPARK-HOLE, Article 32
ON READING. Article 36
CARD Article 37
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 38
CHARACTERS WRITTEN IN THE LAST CENTURY. Article 39
ON AFRICAN SLAVERY. Article 41
ORIGINAL LETTER OF DOCTOR JOHNSON. Article 45
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE HUGH KELLY. Article 47
PLAN OF EDUCATION. Article 52
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION. Article 55
ANECDOTES OF J—— SWARTS. Article 59
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Article 60
HOUSE OF COMMONS, FINANCIAL MEASURE OF FRANCE. Article 62
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 70
EPILOGUE. Article 71
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENT . Article 73
POETRY. Article 74
ADVICE TO A PAINTER. Article 75
THE ENQUIRY. Article 76
PROCRASTINATION. Article 76
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 76
PREFERMENTS. Article 80
MARRIAGES. Article 80
DEATHS. Article 81
BANKRUPTS. Article 82
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

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iqkens of him are , he loves men better upon relation than experience ; for he is exceedingly enamoured of strangers , and none quickKer weary pf his friends . He charges you at first meeting with all his secrets , and on better acquaintance grows more reserved . Indeedjie is one that mistakes much his abusers for friends , and his friends for enemies ; and he apprehends your hate in nothing so much as in good counsel .

Qne that is flexible with any thing but reason ; and then only perverse ; and you may better entice ' than persuade him . A servant to every tale and flatterer , and whom the last man still works over . A great , affefter of wits and such prettinesses ; and his company is costly to him , for he seldom has it but invited . His friendship commonly is begun in a supper , and lost in lending money . The tavern is a dangerous place to him , for to drink and to be drunk , is with him all one , and his brain

is sooner quenched than his thirst . He is drawn into naughtiness with company , but suffers alone , and the bastard commonly laid to his charge . One that will be patiently abused , and take exceptions a month after when he understands it , and one cannot endear him more than by cozening him , and it is a temptation to those that would not . One discoverable in all silliness to all men but himself , and you may take any man ' s knowledge of him better than his own . He will

promise the same thing to twenty , and rather than deny one break with * all . One that has no power over himself , over his business , oyer his friends , but a prey and pity to all ; and if his fortunes once sink , men iuiickly cr , y , ' Alas ! ' and forget him . .

A MERE- GREAT . MAN Is so much heraldry without honour ; himself less real than his title . His virtue is , that he was his-father ' s son , and all the expectation of him to beget another . A man that Hves merely to preserve another ' s memory , and let us know who died so many years ago . One of just as much use as his images ; only he differs in this , that he can speak

himself , and save the fellow of Westminster a labour ; and he remembers nothing better than what was out of his life . His grandfather and their acts are his discourse , and he tells them with more glory than they did theni ; and it is well they did enough , or else he had wanted matter : his other studies are his sports , and those vices that are fit for great men . Every vanity of his has his officer , and is a serious employment for his servants . He talks loud . and obscenely , and scurvily , as a part of state , and they hear him with reverence . All pood qualities

are below him , and especially learning ; except some parcels of the Chronicle , and the writing of his name , which he learns 10 write not to be read . He is merely of his servants faction , and their instrument for their friends and enemies , and is always least thanked for his own courtesies . They that fool him mos . t do most with him , ana he little thinks how many laugh at him bare-headed . No man is kept in i -

gno rance more of himself and men , for he hears nought but flattery , and what is fit to be spoken , truth , with so much preface , chat it loses itself . Thus he lives till his tomb be made ready , and is then a grave statue ta posterity . ' "' "' " ' " ' ' . ' - '" ' — --,, - .

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