arity is to all christian virtues.
Observe how it adorns merit, and how often it covers the want of it.

_Genteel Carriage._

1. Next to good-breeding is a genteel manner and carriage, wholly free
from those ill habits and aukward actions, which many very worthy
persons are addicted to.

2. A genteel manner of behaviour, how trifling soever it may seem, is of
the utmost consequence in private life. Men of very inferior parts have
been esteemed, merely for their genteel carriage and good-breeding,
while sensible men have given disgust for want of it. There is something
or other that prepossesses us at first sight in favor of a well-bred
man, and makes us wish to like him.

3. When an aukward fellow first comes into a room, he attempts to bow,
and his sword, if he wears one, gets between his legs, and nearly throws
him down. Confused, and ashamed, he stumbles to the upper end of the
room and seats himself in the very chair he should not. He there begins
playing with his hat, which he presently drops; and recovering his hat,
he lets fall his cane; and in picking up his cane, down goes his hat
again: thus 'tis a considerable time before he is adjusted.

4. When his tea or coffee is handed to him, he spreads his handkerchief
upon his knee, scalds his mouth, drops either the cup or the saucer, and
spills the tea or coffee in his lap. At dinner he is more uncommonly
aukward: there he tucks his napkin through a button-hole, which tickles
his chin, and occasions him to make a variety of wry faces; he seats
himself on the edge of the chair, at so great a distance from the table,
that he frequently drops his meat between his plate and his mouth; he
holds his knife, fork and spoon different from other people; eats with
his knife, to the manifest danger of his mouth; picks his teeth with his
fork, rakes his mouth with his finger, and puts his spoon, which has
been in his throat a dozen times, into the dish again.

5. If he is to carve he cannot hit the joint, but in labouring to cut
through the bone, splashes the sauce over every body's clothes. He
generally daubs himself all over, his elbows are in the next person's
plate, and he is up to the knuckles in soup and grease. If he drinks, it
is with his mouth full, interrupting the whole company with, "to your
good health, Sir," and "my service to you;" perhaps coughs in his glass,
and besprinkles the whole table. Further, he has perhaps a number of
disagreeable tricks; h