This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 Excerpt: ... respect to numbers in consequence of a true impulse of love. This granted, I think myself in the right when I say, that the French are to be much valued on account of their general character of politeness, or urbanity, call it as you like best. What can they do more, than act with all mankind near as well as any body ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 Excerpt: ... respect to numbers in consequence of a true impulse of love. This granted, I think myself in the right when I say, that the French are to be much valued on account of their general character of politeness, or urbanity, call it as you like best. What can they do more, than act with all mankind near as well as any body would with his bosom-friend? Am I not to be more S thankful for a kindness bestowed upon me without any previous reason, than for one extorted in a manner by friendship, expectation, real merit, or some other such powerful motive? And is it not very humane to treat an utter stranger with a goodness, which, though not derived from true love, yet answers the same, or nearly the same purpose, and makes me nearly as happy for the time? A very wretched world this would be, were no body to be kindly treated but in consequence of known merit and previous love! The French nation has therefore a very just claim to my respect and praise, whose individuals have so strong an habit of urbanity, as to be kind to any body, without troubling themselves about scrupulous distinctions of merit and defect, and consulting only the general interest of mankind. LETTER LXXXVI. A dwarfish kingdom, and its contents. Monaco, Nov. 16, 1760. THIS is a stormy season, and by a storm which has raged the whole day, we have been kept here in spight of ourselves: yet I am very glad it did not not catch us at sea like the la ft, the terror of which has scarcely had time to subside. The wind has now abated much of its fury, and the sky is grown clear again; but we must see the waves quite flat before we dare to venture out in so small a thing as our felucca. This delay has put it in my power to tell you something of this place, which I had otherwise left unobserved. Monaco, as I ...
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