uch like expressions, our hero entered
the house both of great and small, claiming kindred to them, and
committing all manner of frantic actions; such as beating himself,
offering to eat coals of fire, running against the wall, and tearing to
pieces those garments that were given him to cover his nakedness; by
which means he raised very considerable contributions.

But these different habits and characters were still of farther use to
our hero, for by their means he had a better opportunity of seeing the
world, and knowing mankind, than most of our youths who make the grand
tour; for, as he had none of those petty amusements and raree-shows,
which so much divert our young gentlemen abroad, to engage his attention,
it was wholly applied to the study of mankind, their various passions and
inclinations; and he made the greater improvement in his study, as in
many of his characters they acted before him without reserve or disguise.
He saw in little and plain houses hospitality, charity and compassion,
the children of frugality; and found under gilded and spacious roofs,
littleness, uncharitableness and inhumanity, the offspring of luxury and
riot; he saw servants waste their master's substance, and that there were
no greater nor more crafty thieves than domestic ones; and met with
masters who roared out for liberty abroad, acting the arbitrary tyrants
in their own houses:--he saw ignorance and passion exercise the rod of
justice; oppression, the handmaid of power; self-interest outweighing
friendship and honesty in the opposite scale; pride and envy spurning and
trampling on what was more worthy than themselves;--he saw the pure white
robes of truth sullied with the black hue of hypocrisy and dissimulation;
he sometimes, too, met much riches unattended by pomp and pride, but
diffusing themselves in numberless unexhausted streams, conducted by the
hands of two lovely servants, Goodness and Beneficence;--and he saw
honesty, integrity and goodness of mind, inhabitants of the humble cot of
poverty.

All these observations afforded him no little pleasure, but he felt a
much greater in the indulgence of the emotions of filial piety, paying
his parents frequent visits, unknown to them, in different disguises; at
which time, the tenderness he saw them express in their inquiries after
him (it being their constant custom so to do of all travellers) always
melted him into real tears.

It has been remarked, that curiosity, or the des