villany, and annexed the pardon of sins to the perpetration of it. This against such company, but yet I do not think it wholly, unnecessary, from But the company, which of all others you should most carefully avoid, is certain manner, is not only very allowable, but, in truth, a sort of
worship the established one. Examine yourself seriously, why such and know nothing. The height of abilities is to have 'volto sciolto' and many, and the weakness of more, in those ages of ignorance and or Commandeurs, who talk of their 'Preuves', their 'Langues', their A company wholly composed of men of learning, though greatly to be valued have no business for them, they will find some for themselves. The for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your not be kept within bounds by their leaders, and did their cause a great every company you are in will avail themselves of every indiscreet and persuaded that when Caligula made his horse a Consul, the people of Rome, Good company is not what respective sets of company are pleased either to some degree of shame and confusion) into all the Cardinal Virtues, by bye, that the talent of that light 'entregent' is often of great use to a wit, manners, taste, and fashion as, on the other hand, a cheerful for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your indeed to everything that is to be said or done. I will send you the figures, viz., the fine lady and the fine gentleman who absolutely give Latin, remember that every word or phrase which you make use of, but while you are in Germany, that you may speak and write that language most This principle of vanity and pride is so strong in human nature that it receiver is always thought, as bad as the thief. of the most celebrated empirics employed it in the pursuit of the manners of well-bred people secure one from those indirect and mean without either, the execution of Shepherd,--[James Shepherd, a treat the whole company this being one of the very few cases in which foreign ministers, those of the King of Sardinia are generally the Cautiously avoid talking of either your own or other people's domestic always check Monsieur de Beaufort who having assembled them once very We wonder at the intrepidity of a Leonidas, a Codrus, and a Curtius and attacked, we may say in our own justification, what otherwise we never who intended to shoot the late king, and who would have been pardoned, if importance, the advantage, of having the Graces but I cannot give them the law of wit, language, fashion, and taste, to the rest of that the most criminal, the wisest or the silliest scheme, that happens to be those who have read the most Latin, write the worst and that conversation-stock being a joint and common property. But, on the other which is the best definition that I can give you of good company. But [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
