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117. 2. Walpole, Letters, v, 487.
3. Ibid., iv, 410.
4. Ibid., ii, 228.
5. Ibid., iv, 412.
6. Ibid., ix, 161.
7. "The Importation of German," in Studies of a Biographer, ii, 38–75.
118. 1. Reid, Life of Lord Houghton, ii, 254.
119. 1. "Whenever the circumstances of the parent will permit, a private tutor of character must be engaged … to inspect his pupil not only in the hours of study, but also of amusement; and I would give particular directions, that the pupil should associate with none but the private tutor and those whom he may approve." V. Knox, Liberal Education, ii, 112.
2. Andrews, Letters to a Young Gentleman, p. 52.
120. 1. "On Foreign Travel," in Liberal Education, ii, 305.
2. Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. Ray.
122. 1. Letters, ii, 219, 220.
2. Ibid., ii, 409.
3. Ibid., iv, 397.
4. Ibid., v, 115.
123. 1. "A young man, born with the certainty of succeeding to an opulent fortune, is commonly too much indulged during infancy for submitting to the authority of a governor." Chesterfield, On the Passions and Vices of Boys.
2. "My travelling servant babbles all languages, but speaks none."Earl of Cork and Orrery, Letters from Italy, p. 20.
124. 1. Berchtold, An Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers, i, 47.
2. "The characteristic hatred of foreigners was shown by a furious disturbance in 1738 because French actors were employed at the Haymarket and some years afterwards by the sacking of Drury Lane Theatre because Garrick had employed in a spectacle some French dancers." Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century, ii, 113.
3. "One of the complaints," says Andrews, "urged against the English by the French, and indeed by most foreigners,, is a superciliousness of disposition that inclines them to undervalue whatever they meet with abroad. More enmity has accrued to us from this than from any other cause."Letters to a Young Gentleman, p. 8.Cf. ibid., p. 63.
125. 1. Letters from Italy, p. 246.
2. Classical Tour in Italy, iii, 40.
126. 1. View of Society and Manners in France, etc., p. 429.
2. But note the English point of view in the following remarks by Dr. Thomas Arnold: "It will not do to contemplate ourselves only, or, contenting ourselves with saying that we are better than others, scorn to amend our institutions by comparing them with those of other nations. Our travellers and our exquisites imitate the outside of foreign customs without discrimination, just as in the absurd fashion of not eating fish with a knife,

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