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Title: The citizen of the world, or Letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East
Year: 1794 (1790s)
Authors: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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a-naging hu(bands, and inaids the (kill of properly chufingthemj I would teach a wife how fnr ftie might ventureto be lick without giving difguft, (he (hould be ac-quainted with the great btnefits of the cholic in the fto-mach, and ail the thorough-bied inloknce 01 fafhion ;maidb fhould learn the fecret of nicely d-ltingmfhing everycompetitor; they ihould-^e able to know the d;li\rencebe: ecn a pedant and a icholar, a citizen and a prig, aiquire and his horfe, a beau and his monkey j butchiefly, they iliould be taught the art of managing theirfmiles, from the contemptuous fimper to the long labo-rious laugh. But I have difcontinued the projccl: ; for what wouldfignify teaching ladies the manner of governing or chuf-ing hufbnnds, whtn maniage is at prtfcnt lb much outofVafhion, that a lady is very well off who can get anyhulband at all. Celibacy now prevails in every rank oflife j the flreets are crowded with old bachelors, and the houies PABsojTss Editiow oi- SBL.ECTBritish Cl-assics.
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£n<rttwil fhri//cunton^,Jiilirn^/irfS0»,,^uy,iy^ //^. THE WORLD. 85 houfes with ladies v.ho have refuied good offers, and arenever likely to receive any tor the future. The only advice, therefore, I could give the fair Cex,as things (land at prefent, is to get hufbands as fafl asthey can. There is certainly nothing in the whole crea-tion, not even Babylon in ruins, more truly deplorable,than a lady in the virgin l)loom of fixty-thrce, or a bat-tered unmarried beau, who fquibs about from place toplace, fhewlng his pig-tail wig and his ears. The oneappears to my imagination in the form of a double night-cap, or a roil of pomatum, the other in the fhape of aneledluary, or a box of pills. I would once more, therefore, advlfe the ladies to gethufbands. I would defire them not to dilciird an oldlover without very fufficient reafons, nor treat the newwith ill-nature, till they know him falfe ; let not piT,des^lledge the fallenefs of the fcx, coquets the plealures otlong courtfliip, or p

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