Excerpt from Brief Remarks on English Manners: And an Attempt to Account for Some of Our Most Striking Peculiarities; In a Series of Letters to a Friend in France The subject I have chosen is allowed by all to be highly interesting; but though we admit as a general principle that the proper study of man kind is man it is astonishing how seldom his conduct is made the subject of rational discussion, The superficial varieties-i-ir life and manners iii-s deed are continually described in the mass of light compositions with which the press abounds but the principles on which we act are rarely investi gated -nor am I aware of any work having hitherto appeared expresslyliwritten to point out the peculiarities of our manners and customs as opposed to those of foreign nations, and at the same time with a view to explain the causes of such striking deviations from the general usage of the world. 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.