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126. 2. borrowed from the French, who do it because they have no knives fit for use. But monkeyish imitation will do no good." Stanley's Life of Dr. Arnold, ii, 343.
3. Letters, iv, 402.
4. Ibid., ix, 35.
5. It is interesting to compare with the comments of Lady Mary those of Dr. Thomas Arnold, about a century later (July 17, 1830)."I was struck, too, with the total isolation of England from the European world. We are considered like the inhabitants of another planet, feared perhaps, and respected in many points, and in no respect understood or sympathized with. And how much is our state the same with regard to the Continent. How little do we seem to know, or to value their feelings, — how little do we appreciate or imitate their intellectual progress." Stanley's Life of Dr. Arnold, ii, 333, 334.
127. 1. Letters, ii, 29.
2. Cogan, The Rhine, i, 134.
128. 1. Andrews strongly advises young Englishmen who go to Paris to frequent the coffee-houses: "You will, if you are wise, often repair to these houses; and lay aside that pernicious pride, which prompts so many of our countrymen abroad to disdain all company, but that of persons of the highest rank." Letters to a Young Gentleman, p. 44.
129. 1. "The memoirs of last century swarm with proofs that young Englishmen of family were only too well received in Continental, and most of all in Italian, drawing-rooms." Trevelyan, Early Life of Charles James Fox, p. 55.
2. Grand Tour, ii, 45.
3. Baretti, Manners and Customs of Italy, ii, 317, 318.
4. Letters, i, 365.
5. Ibid., iv, 352.
6. Ibid., v, 252.
7. Ibid., vi, 281.
8. Cf. ibid., ii, 261; v, 135; vi, 269, 359; vii, 259, 267; v, 414.
130. 1. Travels, ii, 188.
131. 1. Ibid., ii, 261.
2. Journey, Works, ix, 102.
3. Moore, View of Society and Manners in France, etc., p. 18.
132. 1. Ibid., pp. 39–41.
2. Earl of Cork and Orrery, Letters from Italy, pp. 142–43.
133. 1. Page 76.
2. Letters, ii, 233.
134. 1. Moore, View of Society and Manners in France, etc., pp. 36, 37.
135. 1. Ibid., p. 226.
2. Early History of Charles James Fox, p. 274.
3. For example, when in Paris, Horace Walpole goes into raptures over Lesueur's pictures illustrating the life of St. Bruno. "But sure they are amazing! I don't know what Raphael may be in Rome, but these pictures excel all I have seen in Paris and England." Letters, i, 19.
136. 1. Travels through Italy, p. 447.

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