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gnant at the representation of his countrymen on the London stage: he describes how, "Two actors came in, one dressed in the English manner very decently, and the other with black eye-brows, a riband an ell long under his chin, a big peruke immoderately powdered, and his nose all bedaubed with snuff. What Englishman could not know a Frenchman by this ridiculous picture?... But when it was found that the man thus equipped, being also laced down every seam of his coat, was nothing but a cook, the spectators were equally charmed and surprised. 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 univ
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