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HENEW
BUOLIBE

409572

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1908

[1]

ESSAY
Y I.

Of the DELICACY of TASTE and PASSION.

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OME People are fubject to a certain delicacy of paffion, which makes them extremely fenfible to all the accidents of life, and gives them a lively joy upon every profperous event, as well as a piercing grief, when they meet with croffes and adverfity. Favours and good offices eafily engage their friendship; while the fmalleft injury provokes their refentment. Any honour

or mark of diftinction elevates them above meafure; but they are as fenfibly touch'd with contempt. People of this character have, no doubt, much more lively enjoyments, as well as more pungent forrows, than men of cool and fedate tempers: But, I believe, when every thing is balanc'd, there is no one, who would not rather chufe to be of the latter character, were he entirely master of his own difpofition. Good or ill fortune is very little at our own disposal: And when a perfon, that has this fenfibility of temper, meets with any misfortune, his forrow or refentment takes intire poffeffion of him, and deprives him of all relish in the common ocVOL. I.

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