is of very fhort duration. In difpite of 
every effort to keep up the ball, it .will foon 
come down, and will defcend with greater 
force in proportion to its height. Thejn- 
dividual_chara<5lers of men, howfoever art- 
fully fuftamed, will infallibly vibrate to 
tHeTfTrueTevel in the opmion__oiF_the : world, 
and the^pretender will find himfelf at laft, 
like the fpirt of a fountain, even below the 
furface of his parent refer voir^ below his 
natural level. 
Vera gloria, fays the charming Cicero, ra- 
dices agit, atque etiam fropagatur: fifta omnia 
celeriter^ tanquamjlofculiy decidunt^ necjimula-* 
turn foteft quidquam effe diuturnum. 
Vale. 
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