Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 109 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 109: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is running prose from page 109 of "A Month's Tour," presenting the author's observations about a foreign population (likely Continental European, given references to French manners). The text critiques the lower classes for poor hygiene and drunkenness, describes the ladies as well-mannered but overly concerned with finery rather than neatness, and notes that French customs appear to be their cultural model. The author also remarks that painting has become fashionable among them and that separations and divorces are rare. The page breaks mid-sentence with "A {pi-" at the bottom.
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A MONTHs TOUR. 109 mong them are drinking, fwearing, and rioting. The lower claffes among them have not the leaft regard to cleanlinefs ; this half virtue, as Ariftotle ftiles it, they can fcarcely be thought to have any idea of; a little attention in this particular would render them far lefs difgufting to others, and more comfortable to them- felves. Their ladies are furnifhed with every polite accomplifhment, but feem more ftu- dious of finery than neatnefs. They walk extremely well, but are not very remark- able for beauty. The French manners . feem to be the original they copy after. Painting 1s become fafhionable among them—feperations and divorces are {carce- ly ever heard of, A {pi- comicbooks.com