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ESSAY

ON

BASHFULNESS.

HAWICK:
Printed by Robert Armstrong.

SOLD BY A. CONSTABLE & CO. AND PETER HILL,
EDINBURGH, AND BRASH & REID, AND

J. DUNCAN, GLASGOW.

1815.

270. f. 261.

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ON BASHFULNESS.

Part First.

THE bashful man falls behind.

There is an innate principle which controls all his motions. He cannot display his talents, nor compete with rivals, nor seize advantages that are within his reach. He regrets his own backwardness, and envies the impudent, and verges to discontent. Pained and mortified at slight improprieties of speech and behaviour into which he has fallen, he declines invitations, and would rather be alone. Like Rousseau, he imagines the felicities of a solitary savage, and sympathises with Cowper the poet, who envied a poor woman in rags, whom he saw from his window, while dressing for a visit, because she had not to dress and to dine in company. Through bashfulness his projects of love, and ambition, and

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