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The praile beftowed on the heads of certain fects 

 of philofophers, led many men to defpife the natural 

 objects of ambition, riches and pomp; ahd the 

 natural diflike to poterty and dirt was fubdued and 

 forgotten. 



The pafiicri of love (and efpecially between refined 

 perfons) is of a very complex nature; and far removed 

 from the fcnfual appetite, with which it is fometimes 

 even very (lightly connected. It is a well known fact, 

 that an accompliihed woman of fortune and family 

 eloped fome years ago with an Italian eunuch, whom 

 {he married for love. The truth is, that befides the 

 appetite, the focial pafllon,'as before explained; and 

 this, heightened by the protection a weaker perfon 

 feems to claim from us -, the ienfe of beauty j admi- 

 ration of particular accomplilhrnents ; the refpect due 

 to high birth or fortune; the commendation of others, 

 and habit, in many refpects concur more or lefs to form 

 the paffion. 



Men of the world are all of them fenfible what 

 fuccefs may be derived from a pleafurable ftate of 

 mind, in which the object, whom they wifh to pleafe, 

 may happen to be. On this account they ftudioufly 

 mingle in all the pleafures and amufements, of what- 

 ever kind, in which that perfon is found to delight. 

 It is a maxim of Lord Chefterfield, " Make a perfon 

 in love with themfelves, and they are certain to love 

 you in return *." The pleafure of receiving gifts is 

 directly connected with the object that beftows them ; 

 where prefents cannot be made, praife and commenda- 

 tion are the ordinary means, and if their fincerity is 



* One of our comic writers prefcribes, that a man muft firA 

 make a woman a friend before he ventures to appear as a lover. 



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