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' at tne expence of their modefty." Of the fame<br />
opinion is Co2lius, who has tranfcribed both Picus's<br />
,<br />
hiftory and opinion. His words are—" Now, it is lefs<br />
' wonderful that this uncommon vice fhould be known<br />
'44 by the perfon, and that he fhould hate and condemn<br />
" himfelf for it ; but by the force of a vicious habit<br />
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gaining ground upon him, he praEtifed a vice he<br />
difapproved. But it grew more obftinate and rooted<br />
in his nature, from his tiling it from a child, when a<br />
44<br />
reciprocal friaion among his fchool-fellows ufed to<br />
44<br />
44<br />
be provoked by the titillation of ftripes—a ftrange<br />
inftance what a power the force of education has in<br />
grafting inveterate ill habits on our morals." So far<br />
they : for my part, I don't deny the great influence of<br />
cuftom, and Ariftotle has long fince informed us, both<br />
in his treatife on Memory and his Ethics, that it is a<br />
fort of fecond nature—which Ennius obferves in thefe<br />
Ufus longus mos eft, ac nteditatio crebra<br />
Hunc tandem aircro naturam mortalibus effe<br />
Long ufe, and frequent thinking, cuftom makes,<br />
And this with man, at laft, grows into nature.<br />
and
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