In Which the History of Mrs. Fitzpatrick Is Continued IX. The Morning Introduced in Some Pretty Writing I. Showing What Is to Be Deemed Plagiarism in a Modern Author, and What Is to Be Considered as Lawful Prize In Which, Though the Squire Doth Not Find His Daughter, Something is Found Which Puts an End III. The Departure of Jones from Upton IV. The Adventure of a Beggar-Man From Which It May Be Inferred That the Best Things are Liable to Be Misunderstood and Misinterpreted. VII. Containing a Remark or Two of Our Own, and Many More of the Good Company Assembled in the Kitchen Fortune Seems to Have Been in a Better Humour with Jones Than We Have Hitherto Seen Her. Containing Little More Than a Few Odd Observations Mr. Jones and Mr. Dowling Drink a Bottle Together . An Adventure Which Happened to Mr. Jones at His What Arrived While the Company Were at Breakfast VII. Containing the Whole Humours of a Masquerade . VIII. Containing a Scene of Distress, Which Will Appear Very Extraordinary to Most of Our Readers An Essay to Prove That an Author Will Write the Better for Having Some Knowledge of the Subject The Interview Between Mr. Jones and Mr. Nightingale. A Further Explanation of the Foregoing Design By Which It Will Appear How Dangerous an Advocate Containing Some Matters Which May Affect, and Others Which May Surprize, the Reader . A Whimsical Adventure Which Befel the Squire III. What Happened to Sophia During Her Confinement IV. In Which Sophia Is Delivered from Her Confinement V. In Which Jones Receives a Letter from Sophia, and Goes to a Play with Mrs. Miller and Partridge In Which the History is Obliged to Look Back In Which Mr. Western Pays a Visit to His Sister Schemes of Lady Bellaston for the Ruin of Jones Containing a Portion of Introductory Writing The Generous and Grateful Behaviour of Mrs. Miller. An Extraordinary Scene Between Sophia and Her Aunt In Which Mrs. Miller Pays a Visit to Sophia VII. A Pathetic Scene Between Mr. Allworthy and Mrs. II. Containing a Very Tragical Incident III. Allworthy Visits Old Nightingale; with a Strange Dis- covery That He Made on That Occasion IV. Containing Two Letters in Very Different Stiles THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES A FOUNDLING BOOK VIII- continued CHAPTER XV A BRIEF HISTORY OF EUROPE; AND A CURIOUS DISCOURSE BETWEEN MR. JONES AND THE MAN OF THE HILL I N Italy the landlords are very silent. In France they are more talkative, but yet civil. In Germany and Holland they are generally very impertinent. And as for their honesty, I believe it is pretty equal in all those countries. The laquais a louange are sure to lose no opportunity of cheating you; and as for the postilions, I think they are pretty much alike all the world over. These, sir, are the observations on men which I made in my travels; for these were the only men I ever conversed with. My design, when I went abroad, was to divert myself by seeing the wondrous variety of prospects, beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and vegetables, with which God has been pleased to enrich the several parts of this globe; a variety which, as it must give great pleasure to a contemplative beholder, so doth it admirably display the power, and wisdom, and goodness of the Creator. Indeed, to say the truth, there is but one work in his whole creation that doth him any dishonour, and with that I have long since avoided holding any conversation." "You will pardon me," cries Jones; "but I have always imagined that there is in this very work you mention as great variety as in all the rest; for, besides the difference of inclination, customs and climates have. I am told, introduced the utmost diversity into human nature." "Very little indeed," answered the other: "those who travel in order to acquaint themselves with the different manners of men might spare themselves much pains by going to a carnival at Venice; for there they will see at once all which they can discover in the several courts of Europe. The same hypocrisy, the same fraud; in short, the same follies and vices dressed in different habits. In Spain, these are equipped with much gravity; and in Italy, with vast splendor. In France, a knave is dressed like a fop; and in the northern countries, like a sloven. But human nature is everywhere the same, everywhere the object of detestation and scorn. "As for my own part, I past through all these nations as you perhaps may have done through a croud at a shew— jostling to get by them, holding my nose with one hand, and defending my pockets with the other, without speaking a word to any of them, while I was pressing on to see what I wanted to see; which, however entertaining it might be in itself, scarce made me amends for the trouble the company gave me." "Did not you find some of the nations among which you travelled less troublesome to you than others?" said Jones. "O yes," replied the old man: "the Turks were much more tolerable to me than the Christians; for they are men of profound taciturnity, and never disturb a stranger with questions. Now and then indeed they bestow a short curse upon him, or spit in his face as he walks the streets, but then they have done with him; and a man may live an age in their country without hearing a dozen words from them. But of all the people 1 ever saw, heaven defend me from the French! With their damned prate and civilities, and doing the honour of their nation to strangers (as they are pleased to call it), but indeed setting forth their own vanity; they are so troublesome, that I had infinitely rather pass my life with the Hottentots than set my foot in Paris again. They are a nasty people, but their nastincss is mostly without; whereas, in France, and some other nations that I won't |