The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries . i ne va hors .Neither, for the converse is just as true, does a mantravel whose mind is uninstructed. Such do nottravel: they merely go from one place to set out simple fools and come back learnedfools, with new tricks and preciousness of speech,outlandish habits and depreciation of all things donein the English way. Those who would peregrinateto know the life of states must study beforehand,and not only the customs and the manners of thecountries whit
The cream of curiosity, being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth centuries . i ne va hors .Neither, for the converse is just as true, does a mantravel whose mind is uninstructed. Such do nottravel: they merely go from one place to set out simple fools and come back learnedfools, with new tricks and preciousness of speech,outlandish habits and depreciation of all things donein the English way. Those who would peregrinateto know the life of states must study beforehand,and not only the customs and the manners of thecountries whither they are bound, but the foot-prints and the records of those who travelled therebefore. In idle moments I have amused myself byacting imaginatively as this youths literary adviser,for fear lest a gift so truly laudable should fail of itseffect. One cannot perhaps go far wrong in worksof travel, for they all possess something of thatvariety of scene, that spirit of adventure, that littlespectacle of the world which no well-regulated mindcan do without. At the same time I should be mM ^^f.^, ^ m-j^4 ^^LM\ P^- &V^^ 4 ^^. TheEnglish Tourist in 1731 259 sorry for any stripling who by accident or pervertedinstinct were to feed himself for example on DrSyntaxs Tour in Search of a Wife, or DrunkenBarnaby^s Journal, or that over-luscious classic TheGolden Asse of Apuleius. In this case there has been no such the infants next friend, I have persuaded him toeschew the evil and hold fast to that which is my counsel he already possesses a very choicecollection in which you may find Tom CoryatsCrudities, Mandevilles and Lithgows Travels,Nashs Have with you to Saffron Walden, PurchasPilgrimes, Hakluyts Voyages, Taylor the Water-Poets A Very Merry Wherry Ferry Voyage, FynesMorysons Itinerary, Howells Instructions forForeign Travel, Boltons General Directions for aComfortable Walking with God, and many a hundredmore. There is, of course, no scarcity of such booksthro
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