Excerpt from A Picture of England: Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs and Manners of England
There, 'as every where elfe,'they laugh at a ridi culons perion, but they treat him with a great deal of indulgence; and they do not efteem a gentleman leis on account of his oddity, provided he hurts no one; for it is one of the particular features of an an Englithman's character, never to iofe light of the laws ofhis country. 'i (hall hereafter fhew, by means of the moli remarkable exampiesjthe ih fluence this has on the national charaaer.
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