ABSTRACT
It is the road to happiness - To the esteem and affection of others. - Objection from misconstruction and calumny. - Answer. - Virtue compared with other modes of procuring esteem. - Vice and not virtue is the subject of obloquy- Instanced in the base 'alloy with which our virtues are mixed - In arrogance and ostentation - In the vices in which persons of moral excellence allow themselves. - The virtuous man only has friends. - Virtue the road to prosperity and success in the world - Applied to commer cial transactions - To cases that depend on patronage. - Apparent exception where the dependent is employed as the instrument of vice. - Virtue compared with other modes of becoming prosperous. - Source of the disrepute of virtue in this respect. - Conces sion. - Case where convenient vice bids fair for concealment. - Chance of detection. Indolence - Apprehensiveness - And depravity the offspring of vice.
