e4 FRENCH OPINION OF ENGLISH SOCIETY. THE French nation have lately had many opportunities for forming their opinion of the English. It may be worth our while to consider what opinion they have formed ; since by ascertaining their pre- sent judgment of the English character, we may form some instructive conclusions as to the change their tuition is likely to effect in it. Foreigners are of opinion that we want polish. If this were all, we should rather blame their discernment, or their defi- ciency in fair deduction. For grant us that we are solid, and we have high au- thority for saying that solid bodies take the brightest polish. And if in point of fact the English character, like the Eng- lish oak, be susceptible of no inconsider- 11 10-
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