“In fact, our friends may be said to have been among the first of that brood of hardy English adventurers who have subsequently invaded the Continent and swindled in all the capitals of Europe. The respect in those happy days of 1817-18 was very great for the wealth and honor of the Britons. They hadContinue reading “Passage of the Day: William Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair”; A slight on the English!”
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