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occafions, fo that it requires a particular will and effort to 
forbear it; but to do it, requires very often no will at 
Habits, as well as sailhlia dks are, as he conceiday pacts of 
original conftitution ; having an evident ufe and defign, 
ea we can aflign no caufe of them, but the willof him 
who made us ; bok: no man can fhew a salting why our doing 
a thing frequently, fhould produce cine facility or inchi- 
it. 
Virtues and vices are ——— by philofophers under the ~ 
notion of good an 
othe archbifhop of Gombray defines habits, in general, to 
be certain impreffions left in the mind, by means whereof we 
— reater eafe, readinefs, and inclination to do anything 
rmerly done,, 4 Pte the idea ready at hand to direét us 
hw er done before. wus, e. gr. we form a habit of 
ss having always before us the inconveniencies of 
bn the reflections whereof, being often repeated, ren- 
a exercife of that virtue continually more and more 
ea Malebranche gives a more mechanical theory of the 
habits. His principle is, that they confift ina facility which 
the fosrits have sine Sabie of pafling eafily from one part of 
ody to another. He argues thus: if the mind act on 
and move the Se it is, in “vi probabilit 
Ck n the brain, rea 
a es an influx of {pirits into a mufcle occafions a {well- 
Piss and, of eourle, a fhortening of the mufcle ; and, cor- 
a a motion of the part to which that miele 1 is 
gi On this hypothefis, * iseay to account for aninfinity of 
lati e habits, ny, for inftance, 
children 2 ; acquire new habite. wath more eafe than grown per- 
Seige Why it is difficult to get rid of inveterate habits ? 
ce that incredibl quicknefs in the pronunciation of 
dunkia ng of them; as is parti- 
thofe long aceuftomed to formulas, 
A 
's 
words, even withou: 
= obfervable in 
the faculty of memory appears to have 
= abet of a habit ; infomuch that i in ene fenfe 
ty, ar as it” were. a 
nding bok ies See AssociaTios 
Hani, is what we other calle rempe 
th Sesion ok ea aieet | sae ahaNe OT 
B 1 T. 
An ill, diftempered habit, without any particular ‘appa 
difeafe, the phyficians ufually call a cachexia, or ¢ achymia. 
A thing is faid to enter the habit, when it eect Bg aiiaties 
ly diffufed throughout the a and. is conveyed to the re- 
tion of garment 
In this fenfe we fay, the habit “3 an eccletiattic ; je a re- 
igious, &c. the military habit, 
The esocips! part of the pa as worn ot the Jews and the 
as the spodov and the pile: e former was an 
upper aeelenls confifting of a loofe cae of cloth wrapped 
round the body: the latter was an under garment, or tunic, 
which was faftened clofely round the body and which fell 
down to the middle of the thigh. It has been, not unap- 
propriately, obferved that a perfon divetted of the upper 
in the eaftern language, faid to be naked, and 
tive 
ved the Eaft it was the cuftom, in times of deep mourn- 
i arment 5 and this circumftance 
Exodus, xxiii. 
4—6, in which Mofes gives an account of the mourning of 
the Tivaelited: It was likewife reckoned in ae Eait a mark 
of refpe& often to change their garmen to this fre- 
; hi 
uent change of veftments the Pfalmitt Winds aie he de- 
feribes the change w hich the heavens ee undergo as more 
the eternit of 
pari on ya 
God, than the la fe afide of a aie: which kings ‘and. 
Rane? of clothes 
rai heed 
of the Paice aE es 
_ aprince pnt a his veftur 
e 
t habits a pclathes which the yeneeiley 
inadvertency and inat- 
and care are neceffary on f 
as it is fuppofed, a bias | ua 
of the alt effeéts of it ot ddd have obfered. the in- 
f drefs, and daily obfervation 
confirms to a the many mifchiefs the ladies. faffer from the 
iff w! 24 they wear, | he diforders of the 
me: 
which thofe Sek pant who 
The + binding 9 
cay or the too tr 
heen 
lores and the phyficians, confulted 
efe cafes, have found all means ineffectual, 
caule of the malady 5 
sat the ate are the | 
merely from Bee not Faget the 
ot | stage free return, of the’ bi oy 
veins, which had_ pail pap st no thoy i 
juries ia the carotid arteries. ; 
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