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of turpitude. Virtuous women hear a joke without emotion, MANNERS 



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 its religious votaries. 

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which is due to thofe wl 



humanity teach the better individ 



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happy nation, the 



diilindtion between right and wrong, and fpread, and confirm the 

 notions of virtue and morality among them. But the adions of 



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expreffive of a character peculiar to them, by which 



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an idea of their manners. 



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are nations that have fuch 



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between them and other nations, that it is very eafy to catch them, 

 and to defcribe a picture perfedily refembling the original j the 

 warlike inflitutions and laws of Lycurgus gave 



fuch a ftrong 

 chara<5ter to the Spartans, that nothing was more eafy than to 



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give a pidure of Spartan manners : but to diftinguifli the inhabitant 

 Qf Orchomenus from that of Megalopolis or of Mantinea and Tegea, 



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