SELF LOVE.
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Self-love is the love of one's self, and of every thing for the sake of ones self: it makes men idolize themselves, and would make them tyrants to others, if fortune fur nished them with the means of so doing. It never takes any rest but within itself, or dweIls longer on any other objects, than bees do upon flowers, to extract what may be to their advantage. Nothing is so impetuous as its designs, nothing so artful as it's con- duct. In agility it surpasses all representa- tion; in transforming itself, it exceeds all the metamorphoses; and in refining, goes beyond all chynls,ry. There is no fa,hom- ing the depth, or piercing through the darkness of its abyss. Here it is conceal ed from the most penetrating eyes, and makes a thousand insensible turnings and windings. Here il is often invisible 10 it. self, and conceives and breeds up vast number of inclinations and aversions, un- known to itself; some of which are so mon strous, that when they are brought forth it does not know hem, or cannot be pre- vailed on to own them. From this Obscu- rity, with which it is overcast, arise the ridiculous concoits fhat it has of itself /;