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Article CHARACTERS WRITTEN IN THE LAST CENTURY. ← Page 2 of 2
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Characters Written In The Last Century.
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 . ' "' "' " ' " ' ' . ' - '" ' — --,, - .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Characters Written In The Last Century.
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 . ' "' "' " ' " ' ' . ' - '" ' — --,, - .