Synopsis
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. 1775. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XLlII. He introduces bis new friends to Mr. Jolter, ivitbwhyai the' do£sor enters mto a dispute upon government, u.iicb bad ncell nigh terminated in open war. MEAN while, he not only made them acquainted with every thing worth seeing in town, but attended them in their excursions to all the king's houses within a day's journey of Paris; and in the course of these parties, treated them with an elegant dinner at his own" apartments, where a dispute arose between the doctor and Mr. Jolter, which had well nigh terminated in an irieconcileable animosity. These gentlemen, with an equal share of pride, pedantry and saturnine disposition, were by the accidents of educatidn and company, diametrically opposite in political maxims; the one, as we have: already observed, being a bigotted high chuichman, and the other a rank republican. It was an article of the governor's creed, that the people could not be happy, nor the earth yield ita fruits in abundance, under a restricted clergy and limited government; whereas in the doctor's opinion, it was an eternal truth, that no constitution was so persect as the democracy, and that no country could flourish but under the administration of the mob. These considerations being premised, no wonder that they happened to disagree in the freedom of an unT reserved comersation, especially as their entertainer took all opportunities of encouraging and inflaming the contention. The sirst source of their difference was an unlucky remark of the pamter, who observed, that the partridge of which he was then eating, had the sinest relish of any he had ever tasted. His friend owned, that the birds were the best of the kind he had seen in Fiancei but astirmed, that they were neither so plump nor delicious as those that were ought...
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About the Author
Tobias is the author of several books, inclu ding the Adventures of Roderick Random and the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
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