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and in four or five years regained her cheerfulnefs, and married 

 another man. The other was affeted with long ftupor, lofs of 

 digeftion, and total inability of mind and body, which contin- 

 ued a year or two, and from which fhe alfo gradually re- 

 covered. 



5. Amorfui. Vanity confifts of an agreeable reverie, and is 

 well ridiculed in the itory of NarcifTus, who fo long contemplat- 

 ed his own beautiful image in the water, that he died from neg- 

 3et of taking fuftenance. I once faw a handfome young man, 

 who had been fo much flattered by his parents, that his vanity 

 rofe fo near to infanity, that one might difcern by his perpetual 

 attention to himfelf, and the difficulty with which he arranged 

 his conversation, that the idea of himfelf intruded itfelf at every 

 comma or paufe of his difcourfe. In this 'degree vanity muft 

 afford great pleafure to the pofleflbr ; and when it exifts with- 

 in moderate bounds, may contribute much to the happinefs of 

 focial life. 



My friend Mr. once complained to me, that he was 



much troubled with bafhfulnefs in company, and believed that 

 it arofe from his want of perfonal vanity ; on this account he de- 

 termined on a journey to Paris, when Paris was the centre of 

 .politenefs 5 he there learnt to drefs, to dance, and to move his 

 hands gracefully in converfation , and returned a moft confum- 

 mate coxcomb. But after a very few years he relapfed into ruf- 

 ticity of drefs and manners. 



M. M. The .cure of vanity may be attempted by excefs of 

 flattery, which will at length appear ridiculous, or by its famil- 

 iarity will ceafe to be defired. I remember to have heard a 

 itory of a nobleman in the court of France, when France had a 

 court, who was fo difagreeably vain in converfation, that the 

 king was pleafed to direct his cure, which was t'hus performed. 

 Two gentlemen were directed always to attend him, one was 

 to fland behind his chair, and the other at a refpeclful diftance 

 before him ; whenever his lordfhip began to fpeak,one of them al- 

 ways, pronounced "Lord G.dlimaafre is going tofay the bed thing 

 in the world/'' And, as foon as hisLordfhip had done fpeaking,the 

 other attendant pronounced, <f Lord Galiimaufre has fpoken the 

 belt thing in the world." Till in a few weeks this noble lord 

 was fo difguited with praife that he ceafed to be vain ; and his 

 majefty difmifled his keepers. 



6. Nofta/gta. Maladie de Pais. Calenture. An unconquer- 

 able defire of returning to one's native country, frequent in long 

 voyages, in which the patients become fo infane as to throw 

 themfelves into the fea, miftaking it for green fields or meadows. 

 The Swils are faid to be particularly liable to this difeafe, and 



when 



