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proud, is to fanfy one’s felf poflefs’d of fomething 
that others have not, or ought not, in our Opinions, 
to have : And as there is included in this an Opinion of 
fuperior Self Merit, to fee another poflefs what we 
have nor, or be blefs’d with a good Name, which* 
perhaps, we are not intitled to, is to kindle up an 
unextinguifhable Anger and Hatred in fuch a Breaft $ 
to caufe the Eyes to roll, the Brows to knit toge- 
ther, the Mouth to grin and pout, and to give free 
PofTeffion of the uneafy Mind to thofe curfed Plagues 
Envy zndMalicei which reverfe the Nature of the Soul, 
and change it into fomething lower than Brutality : 
Then arifes a Promptitude to Evil, gladly to laugh 
at the Misfortunes and Diftrefies of the Wretched, 
and to help forward the Deftrudion of a Neigh- 
bour 1 
Tormenting and tormented ev.ry Hour ! 
Rijus abefl , niji quem vifi movere dolor es : 
Non fruit ur fomno vigilacibus excita cur is: 
Sed videt ingratosy intabefcito[ue videndo , 
SucceJJus hominum : carpitqite> et car pit ur tin a, 
Suppliciumque fuum eft 
Ovid. Met. /. II. 
And this malicious Difpofition grows at length 
into other Branches (thriving like an evil Weed from 
a malignant Root), of which 'DetraEtion is one of 
the mod dangerous, and againfl: which there can be 
no prefent Defence : Where Wounds are given in the 
dark, and where the Credit of bad Men is made ufeof 
to ruin the Innocent and Virtuous, and deceive the 
Credulous by bad Imprcflions 5 which, however. 
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