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Show T HE 0 P HI L U S, A CHARACTER Worthy of IMITATION. In a ,L E T T E R to a F R 1 E N D. S I R, I N Compliance with your Delire, I lit down, to attempt the Delineation of the CharaCter of my Friend THEOPHILU>, latelyodeceafed. I am fenftb!e of my Inequal ity to fuch a Talk. And yet the Virtues of my Friend, as I can reprefent them, are far beyond the Pitch of the Bulk of Mankind. How much more his Life, as he lived it! THEOPHIL us was an only Child, and by his Birth Heir to a Fortune of a Thoufand a Year, He had by Nature a hale Confritution, which carried him through the early, and commonly peevifh Y cars of Life, without much crying or complaining; a Circumilance of more Confequence than one would at fi.dl: View imagine. For it is found by Experience, that a fickly Confiitution commonly occafions Peevilhncfs in Infancy; which being connived at by the Parents in early Years, often grows into an incurable Habit, and mak<s Way for Perverfenefs and Paflion, which continue to be the Plague of the Man himfelf, and of all with whom he has any Connexion, for Life. I will |