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IL.782.098
21 Oct 1782:11,12 (5/233)
Dr. Moore's last letter, taken from his work entitled A View
of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany.
Vienna. Our disputes with the colonies have been a
prevailing topick of conversation wherever we have been,
since we left England. . . [1 1/2 column] We are apt to
build our panegyrick of Old England on the ruin and
wretchedness of all other countries. Italy is too hot, the
inns miserable, and the whole country swarms with monks and
vermin. In France, the people are slaves and coxcombs, the
music execrable, they boil the monks and vermin. In France,
the people are slaves and coxcombs, the country. In Germany
some of their Princes have little more to spend than an
English gentleman, they use stoves instead of grates: they
eat sour crout, and speak High Dutch. The Danes and Swedes
are reminded, that they are rather at too great a distance
from the equator; and many sly hints are given, concerning
the inconveniencies of a cold climate. . .
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