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Well, the man bearing the mean character is pretty well such as I

have described him, but he has no name appropriated to him: of

those who try to give pleasure, the man who simply and

disinterestedly tries to be agreeable is called Over-Complaisant,

he who does it with a view to secure some profit in the way of

wealth, or those things which wealth may procure, is a Flatterer:

I have said before, that the man who is "always non-content" is

Cross and Contentious. Here the extremes have the appearance of

being opposed to one another, because the mean has no appropriate

name.

Chapter IX.