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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 9780484550246

Excerpt from New Voyages and Travels, Vol. 9: Consisting of Originals and Translations The above travellers, it will be recollected, are describing our forefathers, and drawing a picture which, in some respects, is as new to us as it was to them. The next is a traveller o'f comparatively modern days - a man of information, and'ap parently good nature. He speaks, as indeed almost all foreign ers do, of the same extreme rudeness of the lower orders of English, but bestows every praise on the higher ranks, as well as on the country generally. The person we allude to is M. Grossly, who wrote his Tour in the year 1772.-our custom of shaking hands, he describes very ludicrously To take a man by the says he, and shake it until his shoulder is almost dislocated, is one Of the grand testimonies of friendship which the English give each other, when they happen to meet. This they do very coolly; there is no expression of friendship in their countenahces, yet' the whole soul enters into the arm which gives the shake; and this supplies the place 'of the em braces and salutes of the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.