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ersity tutor who was sometimes substituted for the parson, as an appropriate guardian. Footnote 391: _The Bear-Leaders_, London, 1758. Footnote 392: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu met many of these pairs at Rome, where she writes that, by herding together and throwing away their money on worthless objects, they had acquired the title of Golden Asses, and that Goldoni adorned his dramas with "gli milordi Inglesi" in the same manner as Moliere represented his Parisian marquises (_Letters_, ed. Wharncliffe, London, 1893, vol. ii. p. 327). Footnote 393: William Congreve, _The Way of the World_, Act III. Sc. xv. Footnote 394: Philip Thicknesse, _Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation_, London, 1766, p. 3. Footnote 395: Thomas Gray the poet. Footnote 396: Horace Walpole, _Letters_, ed. Cunningham, London, 1891, vol. i. p. 24. Footnote 397: Thomas Gray, _Letters_, ed. Tovey, Cambridge University Press, 1890, pp. 38, 44, 68. Footnote 398: James Howell, _Instructions for Forraine Travell_, p. 25 (Arber Reprint). Footnote 399: _Ibid., Epistolae Ho-Elianae,_ ed. Jacobs, 1892, vol. i. p. 95. The Renaissance traveller had little commendation for a land that was not fruitful, rich with grains and orchards. A landscape that suggested food was to him the fairest landscape under heaven. Far from being an admirer of mountains, he was of the opinion of Dr Johnson that "an eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility" and that "this uniformity of barrenness can afford very little amusement to the traveller" (_Works_, ed. 1787, vol. x. p. 359). Footnote 400: _Itinerarii Italiae Rerumq. Romanorum libri tres_ a Franc. Schotto I.C. ex antiquis novisque Scriptoribus iis editi qui Romam anno Iubileii sacro visunt. Ad Robertum Bellarminum S.R.E. Card. Ampliss. Antverpiae. Ex officina Plantiniana apud Joannem Moretum. Anno saecularii sacro, 1600. Thomas Cecil in Paris in 1562 studied the richly illustrated _Cosmographia Universalis_ of Sebastien Munster (pub. Basel 1550) which gave descriptions of "Omnium gentium mores, leges, religio, res gestae, mutationes." Sir Thomas Browne recommends to his son in France in 1661 _Les Antiquities de Paris_ "which will direct you in many things, what to look after, that little time you stay there" (_Works_, ed. Wilkin, 1846, vol. i. p. 16). Footnote 401: Such as: (_a_) _La Guide des C
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