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and also of the act done. Vanity has made many a 

 man go through life with a fair character, whose 

 disposition and principles, but for the vanity of being 

 spoken highly of, would have induced a widely 

 different conduct ; such a man would not feel proud 

 of having acted honourably, because his innate 

 principle does not induce him to really prize such 

 conduct, but his vanity is gratified by being spoken 

 of as a man of honour. If, therefore, vanity can, and 

 certainly does, often produce such efiects, my 

 opinion is some^vhat borne out, that we owe a good 

 deal at times to its influence. 



The vanity of possessing beautiful and valuable 

 animals, is not only harmless but commendable, as 

 encouraging the propagation and rearing of such as 

 are so ; but in the use, or rather abuse, of them 

 there is with some persons an affectation and vanity, 

 that is as much the reverse, as it should be beneath, 

 the feeling of a manly mind and sensible man. 



This affectation I have seen evinced where we 

 should have least expected its exhibition; as it 

 appeared, or was shown, among a class of men 



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