The author had taken care
to make him speak all the impertinences he could devise.... There was a
long criticism upon our manners, our customs and above all, our cookery.
The excellence and virtues of English beef were cried up; the author
maintained that it was owing to the quality of its juice that the
English were so courageous, and had such a solidity of understanding
which raised them above all the nations of Europe" (E. Smith, Foreign
Visitors In England, London, 1889, pp. 193-4).
Footnote 379: Samuel Foote, Dramatic Works, vol. i. p. 7.
Footnote 380: Ibid.
Footnote 381:
"Let Paris be the theme of Gallia's Muse
Where Slav'ry treads the Streets in wooden shoes."
(Gay, Trivia.)
Footnote 382: Joseph Addison, A Letter from Italy, London, 1709.
Footnote 383: Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem.
Footnote 384: Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to
his Son, London, 1774; vol. ii. p. 123; vol. iii. p. 308.
Footnote 385: Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Dialogue concerning
Education, in A Collection of Several Tracts, London, 1727.
Footnote 386: Ibid., Dialogue of The Want of Respect Due to Age, pp.
295-6.
Footnote 387: John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education, London,
1699, pp. 356-7, 375-7.
Footnote 388: John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education, London,
1699, pp. 356-7, 375-7.
Footnote 389: Ibid.
Footnote 390: As Cowper says in The Progress of Error:
"From school to Cam or Isis, and thence home:
And thence with all convenient speed to Rome.
With reverend tutor clad in habit lay,
To tease for cash and quarrel with all day:
With memorandum-book for every town,
And every post, and where the chaise broke down."
Foote's play, An Englishman in Paris, represents in the character of
the pedantic prig named Classick, the sort of university tutor who was
sometimes substituted for the parson, as an appropriate guardian.
Footnote 391: The Bear-Leaders, London, 1758.
Footnote 392: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu met many of these pairs at Rome,
where she writes that, by herding together and throwing away their money
on worthless objects, they had acquired the title of Golden Asses, and
that Goldoni adorned his dramas with "gli milordi Inglesi" in the same
manner as Moliere represented his Parisian marquises (Letters, ed.
Wharncliffe, London, 1893, vol. ii. p. 327).
Footnote 393: William Congreve, The Way of the World, Act III. Sc. xv.
Footnote 394: Philip Thicknesse, Observations on the Customs and
Manners of the French Nation, London, 1766, p. 3.
Footnote 395: Thomas Gray the poet.
Footnote 396: Horace Walpole, Letters, ed. Cunningham, London, 1891,
vol. i. p. 24.
Footnote 397: Thomas Gray, Letters, ed. Tovey, Cambridge University
Press, 1890, pp. 38, 44, 68.
Footnote 398: James Howell, Instructions for Forraine Travell, p. 25
(Arber Reprint).
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