Whereas an HUMOURIST
is a _Person_ in real Life, obstinately attached to sensible
peculiar _Oddities_ of his own genuine Growth, which appear in
his Temper and Conduct.
In short, a _Man_ of _Humour_ is one, who can happily exhibit and
expose the Oddities and Foibles of an _Humourist_, or of other
_Characters_.
The _Features_ of an HUMOURIST being very remarkable and singular,
seem justly to deserve an explicit Description. It is then to be
observ'd, that an _Humourist_, at the same time that he is guided in
his Manners and Actions by his own genuine original Fancy and Temper,
disdains all _Ostentation_; excepting that alone of his _Freedom_ and
_Independency_, which he is forward of shewing upon every Occasion,
without Ceremony; he is quite superior to the _Affectation_ of a
Virtue or Accomplishment, which he thinks does not belong to him;
scorns all _Imitation_ of others; and contemns the rest of the World
for being servilely obedient to Forms and Customs; disclaiming all
such Submission himself, and regulating his Conduct in general by his
own _Conviction_,
The _Humourist_ is forward upon many Occasions to deliver his Opinion,
in a peremptory Manner, and before he is desir'd; but he gives it
sincerely, unbiass'd by _Fear_ or _Regard_, and then leaves it to the
Persons concern'd to determine for themselves; For he is more pleas'd
in the Bottom to find his Opinion _slighted_, and to see the Conduct
of others agreeable to that System of Folly and Weakness, which he has
established with himself, to be the Course of their Actions.
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