An Inquiry Into The State Of Polite Learning In Europe The Citizen Of The World PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...unusual share of comet/tingness in his whole appearance! Lord, how I am charmed with the outlandish cut of his face! how bewitching the exotic breadth of his forehead! I would give the world to see him in his own country dress. Pray turn about, sir, and let me see you behind. There! therc's a travelled air for you. You that attend there, bring up a plate of beef cut into small pieces: I have a violent passion to see him eat. Pray, sir, have you got your chopsticks about you '2' It will be so pretty to see the meat carried to the mouth with a jerk. Pray speak a little Chinese: I have learned some of the language myself. Lord! have you nothing pretty from China about you; something that one does not know what to do with? I have got twenty things from China that are of no use in the world. Look at those jars, they are of the right pea-green; these are the furniture." "Dear madam," said I, "these, though they may appear fine in your eyes, are but paltry to a Chinese; but, as they are useful utensils, it is proper they should have a place in every apartment." " Useful, sir!" replied the lady; "sure you mistake; they are of no use in the world."--" What! are they not filled with an infusion of tea as in China?" replied I. "Quite empty and useless, upon my honor, sir." " Then they are the most cumbrous and clumsy furniture in the World, as nothing is truly elegant but what unites use with beauty." "I protest," says the lady,"I shall begin to suspect thee of being an actual barbarian. I suppose you hold my two beautiful pagods in contempt?" "What!" cried I, "has F ohi spread his gross superstitions here...