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