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and moulds it into a conftant Confent with the Mind. 
In the Courfe of my own Acquaintance, I know 
l'omc Pcrfons who wear on their Countenances a con- 
tinual, Cheerfulnefs, Complacency, and Opennefs 5 
and, by Experience, 1 know it to be their continual 
Difpofition of Mind : And, on the other hand, I alfo 
know fome, on whofe Faces a fettled Morofenefs 
always ftrikes the Beholders and know it to be their 
own conftant Plague, and that ofthofe among whom 
they come. 
xviir. 
This need not be wonder'd at, nor indeed can it 
be denied 5 for that fuch a Habitude of Countenance 
is eafily acquir'd will appear certain,, if we do but 
obferve what happens every Day: We may take 
notice that among School-Boys, if there be one 
who ftammers in his Speech, it will fpeedily be 
acquir’d by the others 3 and I have known two 
Boys, whofe Fathers were my Acquaintance, 
catch that Habit of fpeaking at School, and have 
never yet been able to fhake it off : I have alfo 
known a Youth catch a Habit of winking the upper 
Lid of his Eyes, quicker than the Seconds of a Clock, 
by having iometimes fecn an Epileptic , who fre- 
quented the Quarter where he lived 3 and I perfonally 
knew a Gentleman eminent in the Law, who 
ceflanrly winked with one Eyes and told me, to 
fatisfy my Curiofity, that his Father had a Servant, 
when he was a Child, who had an involuntary 
Winking, which lie had acquir’d, and which, not- 
withftanding his having been fent away to a diftant 
School, 
