If buffoonery should be made to please him, he may lose the dignity of his mind.

Love-tales may produce in him a romantic imagination.

Low characters may teach him low cunning.

If the laws of honour strike him as the laws of refined life, he may become a fashionable moralist.

If modes of dissipation strike him us modes of pleasure in the estimation of the world, he may abandon himself to these, and become a rake.