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ARTIFICIAL MANNERS.
IT may be thought, that artificial manners and exterior accompliſhments are much the ſame; but I think the former take a far wider range, and are materially different. The one ariſes from affectation, and the other ſeems only an error in judgment.
The emotions of the mind often appear conſpicuous in the countenance and manner. Theſe emotions, when they ariſe from ſenſibility and virtue, are inexpreſſibly pleaſing. But it is eaſier to copy the caſt of countenance, than to cultivate the virtues which animate and improve it.
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