Letters From a Citizen of the World, to His Friends in the East, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-10-17
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 9781396800931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Letters From a Citizen of the World, to His Friends in the East, Vol. 1 How comes it, said they, that the Euro peans, so remote from China, think with so much justice and precision They have never read our books, they scarcely know even our letters, and yet they talk and reason just as we do. The truth is, the Chinese and we are pretty much alike. Different degrees of refinement, and not of. Distance, mark the distinctions among mankind. Savages of the most opposite climates have all but one charac ter, of improvidenceand rapacity; and tutored nations, however separate, make use of the very same methods to procure refined enjoy ment. The distinctions of polite nations are. Few but such as are peculiar to_the Chinese, ap pear, in every page of the following corres pondence. The metaphors and illusions are all drawn from the East. Their formality our author carefully preserves. Many of their favourite tenets in morals are illustrated. The Chinese are always concise, so is he. Simple, so is he. The Chinese are grave and senten tious, so is be. But in one particular the resemblance is peculiarly striking: the Chi aese are often dull; and so is he. Nor has my assistance been wanting. We are told in an old romance of a certain knight-errant and his horse who contracted an intimate friend ship. The horse most usually bore the knight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
