. Thackerayana;. ws with zeal for the honourand prosperity of old England ; he will fight for it if there be anoccasion, and drink to it perhaps a little too often and too , is it not to be wished that there were in this country sixmillions of such honest and zealous, though uninformed, citizens ? Our honest cobbler is thoroughly convinced, as his forefatherswere for many centuries, that one Englishman can beat threeFrenchmen; and in that persuasion he would by no means 342 THACKERAYANA. decline the trial. Now, though in my own private opinion,deducted from physical principles, I a
. Thackerayana;. ws with zeal for the honourand prosperity of old England ; he will fight for it if there be anoccasion, and drink to it perhaps a little too often and too , is it not to be wished that there were in this country sixmillions of such honest and zealous, though uninformed, citizens ? Our honest cobbler is thoroughly convinced, as his forefatherswere for many centuries, that one Englishman can beat threeFrenchmen; and in that persuasion he would by no means 342 THACKERAYANA. decline the trial. Now, though in my own private opinion,deducted from physical principles, I am apt to believe that oneEnglishman could beat no more than two Frenchmen of equalsize with himself, I should, however, be unwilling to undeceivehim of that useful and sanguine error, which certainly made hiscountrymen triumph in the fields of Poictiers and Crecy. No. 122. The World.—May i, 1755. As I was musing one morning, in a most disconsolate mood,with my leg in my landladys lap, while she darned one of my. stockings, it came into my head to collect from various books,together with my own experience and observations, plain andwholesome rules on the subject of diet, and then publish them ina neat pocket volume ; for I was always well inclined to do goodto the world, however ungratefully it used me. I doubt, , you will hardly forbear smiling to hear a man who wasalmost starved talk gravely of compiling observations on moment I finished my volume I ran to an eminent booksellernear the Mansion House ; he was just set down to dinner. . .As soon as the cloth was taken away I produced my manuscript,and the bookseller put on his spectacles ; but to my no smallmortification, after glancing an eye over the title page, he lookedsteadfastly upon me for near a minute in a kind of amazement Icould not account for, and then broke out in the following manner :— My dear sir, you are come to the very worst place in the worldfor the sale of such a performance as this
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