Inhaltsangabe
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1823. Excerpt: ... white her elder brother, the heir of a worthy family, is drawn in silks like his sister? The dress and air of a man are not well to be divided; and those who would not be content with the latter, ought never to think of assuming the former. There is 8O large a. portion of natural agreeableness among the fair sex of our island, that they seem betrayed into these romantic habits without having the same occasion for them with their inventors: all that needs to be desired of them is, that they would be themselves, that is, what nature designed them. And to see their mistake when they depart from this, let them look upon a man who atfects the softness and effeminacy of a woman, to learn how thetf sex must appear to us, when approaching the resemblance of a man. ",Kir liMJi'V 'I am, Sir, 1-t.Tpciuiii-. -•. i 'Your most humble servant.' ..,T .^tB'!::.-- . • ••' ' • -'• f^iS^I lot i'••'•' bfe'a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. is good for nothing. • with among the women, and every rencounter among the men, as parts of his education; and fancies he should never bave been the man he is, had he net broke windows, knocked down constables, disturbed honest people with his midnight serenades, and beat up a lewd woman's quarters, when he was a young fellow. The engaging in adventures of this nature Will calls the studying of mankind; and terms'thi* knowledge of die town, the knowledge of the world'. Will ingenuously confesses that for half his life his head ached every morning with reading of menovernight; and at present comforts himself under certain pains which he endures from time to time, that without them he could not have been acquainted with the gallantries of the age. This Will looks upon as th...
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