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Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I

by Piozzi Hester Lynch

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Author: Piozzi Hester Lynch

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...he had made his own fortune, was likely to leave itaccording as friendship, gratitude, and public spirit dictated: eitherto those who had served, or those who had pleased him; or, notunfrequently, to benefit some charity, set up some school, or the like:"but let a man once turn sixty, " said he, "and his natural heirs _aresure of him_:" for having seen many people, he has likewise beendisgusted by many; and though he does not love his relations better thanhe did, the discovery that others are but little superior to them inthose excellencies he has sought about the world in vain for, he beginsto enquire for his nephew's little boy, whom as he never saw, nevercould have offended him; and if he does not break the chain of afavourite watch, or any other such boyish trick, the estate is his forever, upon no principle but this in the testator. So it is by those who travel a good deal; by what I have seen, everycountry has so much in it to be justly complained of, that most menfinish by...

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