English Travellers of the Renaissance
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The earl was well aware of it, indeed, and marked with repugnance divers l Samuel Johnson, London : A Poem.
182 OF THE RENAISSANCE young bucks of his day with leathern breeches and unpowdered hair, who would exclaim; "Damn these finical outlandish airs, give me a manly resolute manner. They make a rout with their graces, and talk like a parcel of dancing masters, and dress like a parcel of fops ; one good English- man will beat three of them." ^ Even during the height of the Grand Tour in the l...atter half of the seventeenth century, thought- ful minds, observing the effects of a foreign educa- tion as seen not only in the courtiers of Charles II., but in the dozens of obscure country gentlemen who painfully sought to acquire the habit of a Parisian Marquis by education abroad, noticed the weak points of such a system. The Earl of Clarendon thought it pernicious to send boys abroad until after they had gone through Oxford or Cambridge. There was no necessity for their getting the French accent at an early age, " as if we had no mind to be suspected to be English- men." That took them from their own country at just the age when they ought to have severe mental discipline, for the lack of which no amount of social training would make them competent men, " They return from travel with a wonderful confidence which may very well be called impu- 1 Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to his Son, London, 1774 ; vol.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The earl was well aware of it, indeed, and marked with repugnance divers l Samuel Johnson, London : A Poem.
182 OF THE RENAISSANCE young bucks of his day with leathern breeches and unpowdered hair, who would exclaim; "Damn these finical outlandish airs, give me a manly resolute manner. They make a rout with their graces, and talk like a parcel of dancing masters, and dress like a parcel of fops ; one good English- man will beat three of them." ^ Even during the height of the Grand Tour in the l...atter half of the seventeenth century, thought- ful minds, observing the effects of a foreign educa- tion as seen not only in the courtiers of Charles II., but in the dozens of obscure country gentlemen who painfully sought to acquire the habit of a Parisian Marquis by education abroad, noticed the weak points of such a system. The Earl of Clarendon thought it pernicious to send boys abroad until after they had gone through Oxford or Cambridge. There was no necessity for their getting the French accent at an early age, " as if we had no mind to be suspected to be English- men." That took them from their own country at just the age when they ought to have severe mental discipline, for the lack of which no amount of social training would make them competent men, " They return from travel with a wonderful confidence which may very well be called impu- 1 Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to his Son, London, 1774 ; vol.
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