Foreign Visitors in England And What They Have Thought of Us Being Some Notes
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133 frock-coats, gray hats, checked trousers, and stout shoes. At dinner-table it was not at first easy to recognise the same individuals in their white waistcoats, muslin cravats, thin black coats, with silk facings perliaps. But after a while you see the same rough figure through all the finery, and become sensible that John Bull cannot make himself fine, whatever he may put on. He is a rough animal, dnd his female -is well adapted to him. ' One may seek in vain for a very long time something... to account for this rather unkind turn. It is grotesque as well as unkind. The American visitor or dweller in London is usually credited with a little extra self-con- ceit, unaccompanied by prejudice ; and that is entirely justified by the circumstance that the average American found in London is a successful, and pretty often a wealthy, man. But it is a jaundiced view of the case to re- present us as habitually seeking to lower his social qualities by false conceptions. There will be always a sense of rivalry between the two nations ; but it is absurd and unjust 134 Foreign Visitors in England.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
133 frock-coats, gray hats, checked trousers, and stout shoes. At dinner-table it was not at first easy to recognise the same individuals in their white waistcoats, muslin cravats, thin black coats, with silk facings perliaps. But after a while you see the same rough figure through all the finery, and become sensible that John Bull cannot make himself fine, whatever he may put on. He is a rough animal, dnd his female -is well adapted to him. ' One may seek in vain for a very long time something... to account for this rather unkind turn. It is grotesque as well as unkind. The American visitor or dweller in London is usually credited with a little extra self-con- ceit, unaccompanied by prejudice ; and that is entirely justified by the circumstance that the average American found in London is a successful, and pretty often a wealthy, man. But it is a jaundiced view of the case to re- present us as habitually seeking to lower his social qualities by false conceptions. There will be always a sense of rivalry between the two nations ; but it is absurd and unjust 134 Foreign Visitors in England.
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