...manner of service to me. All the English here laugh at him, he is such a prig. He thinks himself a fine gentleman, and is always plaguing me to go into foreign companies, to learn foreign lan"uages, and to get foreign manners ; as if I were not to livo and die in Old England, and as if...

...manner of service to me. All the English here laugh at him, he is such a prig. He thinks himself a fine gentleman, and is always plaguing me to go into foreign companies, to learn foreigr languages/ and to get foreign manners; as if i were not to live and die in Old England, and...

...of service to me. All the Eng" lish here laugh at him, he is such a prig. He thinks " himself a fine gentleman, and is always plaguing me " to go into foreign companies, to learn foreign lan" guages, and to get foreign manners ; as if I were not " to live and die in Old England, and as...

...manner of service to me. All the English here laugh at him, he is such a prig. He thinks himself a fine gentleman, and is always plaguing me to go into foreign...England, and as if good English acquaintance would not be more useful to me than outlandish ones. Dear Sir, grant me this request, and you shall ever find me...

...manners; as if I were not to live and die in Old England, and as if good English acquaintance would not be more useful to me than outlandish ones. Dear Sir,...me this request, and you shall ever find me " 'Your most dutiful son, '"GD '"ROME, May the 3d, 1753.' "The following is a very honest and sensible letter,...

...signors speak English ; which shows what sort of fellows they are," and petitions for leave to return, " as if I were not to live and die in Old England, and...not be much more useful to me than outlandish ones." Snobbery will always be a target for satire, but it has seldom been treated more effectively than by...