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able to add other particulars ; but of some , at least , it must be ci . frssed , that the less is known tiiti better . It will be admitted , however , that this institution was directed by very excellent and al k men , and that it was happily sue * ssful in training many very emi'i' nt and useful characters :
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then curses the French cookery by the hour . A third discovers , after some pains . takmg , that the wine of the country will sooner disorder his bowels than his head , and he becomes absolutely
outrageous . Multitudes are ignorant of the French language ; and , too proud to set about learning it , they make their way through the public spectacles of Paris by the
aid of a valet de place , who has a smattering of English ; and when they return home they declare that the metropolis of France furnishes no good society . People of this character would do well
to stay at home , and delegate the employment of travelling to men of moderate views . These will acknowledge that on the route to Paris , either by Calais or Dieppe , they find good apartments , clean beds , good \ vine and if they are not absolutely bigotted to beef steaks—good cookery . In Paris a man may live as he pleases . He may dine at his pleasure for two
louisorfor twenty-five sous . Lodgings also may be had of various prices , according to the views and purse of the traveller ; but it may
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State and Prospects of France . Sgg
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Slate and Prospects of France . [ From Paris in 1802 and 1814 . By the Rev William Shepherd ? ' 8 vo , pp . 269 —278 . Conclusion . ] On my arrival in London I was informed by my friends , that many Englishmen who had visited Paris
since the peace , had returned home extremely disappointed in the expectation of pleasure , which had induced them to cross the Channel . The experience of these individuals does not , however , at
all accord with mine . During my stay in the French metropolis I spent my time most agreeably ; and I shall ever look back upon the excursion with sentiments of high satisfaction . As to many of my countrymen who are displeased with France ^ I cannot help thinking that the fault is in themselves . Unreasonable expectations are ever morti fied . One man finds
no carpets on the floors of the French inns , and he instantly exclaims that on the continent comfort is unknown . Another meets with a dish to which he is a strani ger—he reconnoitres it as if he were in fear of poison—he just tastes and does not like it—and
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and that , on the whole , it has f in its day , done good service to the cause of learning , truth , and liberty . —One short paper more on the defects in its constitution and the causes of its decline will close the observations of your obedient servant , V . F .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/11/
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