and
Bashful
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We have frequent Instances of this odd kind of Mixture in People of depraved Minds and mean Education; who tho' they are not able to meet a Man's Eyes, or pronounce a Sentence without Confusion, can Voluntarily commit the greatest Villanies, or most indecent Actions.
Such a Person seems to have made a Resolution to do Ill even in spite of himself, and in defiance of all those Checks and Restraints his Temper and Complection seem to have laid in his way.
Upon the whole, I would endeavour to establish this Maxim,
That the Practice of Virtue is the most proper Method to give a Man a becoming Assurance in his Words and Actions.
Guilt always seeks to shelter it self in one of the Extreams, and is sometimes attended with both.
X.