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Excerpt from Sketches of English Character, Vol. 1 of 2 A man of peculiar habits who has vainly tried to drill his whims and oddities to the regimental discipline of London life, and fire his Opinions in platoons with the commonplace people of his parish, when he finds himself out of bounds of conventional tyranny, is apt to run into extremes. The English, consequently, pass for cracked on the continent of Europe, just as the Russians pass for millionnaires; merely because the wealthy of Russia and eccentric of Great Britain are forced to travel in search of enjoyment. 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.