【英文原著类】SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN(年轻绅士素描).pdf

SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN
SKETCHES OF YOUNG
GENTLEMEN
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SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN
TO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO THE YOUNG LADIES OF
THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES, AND LIKEWISE THE YOUNG
LADIES RESIDENT IN THE ISLES OF GUERNSEY, JERSEY,
ALDERNEY, AND SARK, THE HUMBLE DEDICATION OF THEIR
DEVOTED ADMIRER,
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SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN
SHEWETH, -
THAT your Dedicator has perused, with feelings of virtuous
indignation, a work purporting to be 'Sketches of Young Ladies;' written
by Quiz, illustrated by Phiz, and published in one volume, square
twelvemo.
THAT after an attentive and vigilant perusal of the said work, your
Dedicator is humbly of opinion that so many libels, upon your Honourable
sex, were never contained in any previously published work, in twelvemo
or any other mo.
THAT in the title page and preface to the said work, your Honourable
sex are described and classified as animals; and although your Dedicator is
not at present prepared to deny that you ARE animals, still he humbly
submits that it is not polite to call you so.
THAT in the aforesaid preface, your Honourable sex are also described
as Troglodites, which, being a hard word, may, for aught your Honourable
sex or your Dedicator can say to the contrary, be an injurious and
disrespectful appellation.
THAT the author of the said work applied himself to his task in malice
prepense and with wickedness aforethought; a fact which, your Dedicator
contends, is sufficiently demonstrated, by his assuming the name of Quiz,
which, your Dedicator submits, denotes a foregone conclusion, and
implies an intention of quizzing.
THAT in the execution of his evil design, the said Quiz, or author of
the said work, must have betrayed some trust or confidence reposed in him
by some members of your Honourable sex, otherwise he never could have
acquired so much information relative to the manners and customs of your
Honourable sex in