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SICILY AND MALTA, m
We were alleging too, that it might be
made of very considerable utility to so-
ciety ; and that these dumb orators could
give the mod pathetic lectures upon pride
and vanity. Whenever a fellow began
to strut, like Mr. B. or to affect the
haughty supercilious air, he should be sent
to converse with his friends in the gallery;
and if their arguments did not bring him
to a proper way of thinking, I would give
him up as incorrigible.
At Bologna they shewed us the skeleton
of a celebrated beauty, who died at a
period of life when she was still the object
of universal admiration. By way of mak-
ing atonement for her own vanity, she
bequeathed herself as a monument, to
curb the vanity of others. Recollecting
cn her death-bed the great adulation that
had been paid to her charms, and the fatal
change they were soon to undergo, she
ordered
We were alleging too, that it might be
made of very considerable utility to so-
ciety ; and that these dumb orators could
give the mod pathetic lectures upon pride
and vanity. Whenever a fellow began
to strut, like Mr. B. or to affect the
haughty supercilious air, he should be sent
to converse with his friends in the gallery;
and if their arguments did not bring him
to a proper way of thinking, I would give
him up as incorrigible.
At Bologna they shewed us the skeleton
of a celebrated beauty, who died at a
period of life when she was still the object
of universal admiration. By way of mak-
ing atonement for her own vanity, she
bequeathed herself as a monument, to
curb the vanity of others. Recollecting
cn her death-bed the great adulation that
had been paid to her charms, and the fatal
change they were soon to undergo, she
ordered