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hael's cartoons--envious behaviour of modern painters, in defacing the productions of the ancients--digressions to some reports raised by Mr P. concerning the writer. LET. LVII. --Remarks on Paris--reflections on staring and grinning--character of the French people--criticism on statues in the gardens of Versailles--the gardens compared with the royal gardens of England. LET. LVIII. --Observations on the koran, and the conduct of the Greek priests with regard to it--women not excluded from Mahomet's paradise--who among the women excluded-- the exhortations of Mahomet to the women, compared with the monastic institution of popery--the sciences cultivated among the Turks by the effendis--sentiments of an intelligent one respecting abstinence from wine-- strange mixture of different countries in the suburbs of Constantinople--different species of men asserted-- mongrels in the human species--why the English women so fond of hoop-petticoats. Inquiry into the truth of Monsieur Rochefoucault's maxim, "That marriage is sometimes convenient, but never delightful." Verses written in the Chiask at Pera, overlooking Constantinople, December 26th, 1718. By Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Verses to Lady Mary Wortley Montague. By Mr Pope. F I N I S. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY M--Y W--Y M--E*** ******* This file should be named 17520.txt or 17520.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/5/2/17520 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific perm
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