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Show $40 The Art of Travelling. And now let any one put in the room of what ,f'he has been reading, fuch a difpofition of Mind as >5 the greatefl: part travel with, and he'll eafily periceive what is produc'd by that bufy Preference {which determines on the firft Prejudices, which \are almoft always falfe, and may eafily iudg by this' whether it was not neceflary to give the Pub, lick a method of Travelling. I intend hereafter ' to treat of the Politic Genius of all the Courts of Europe, and h0pe the manner in which 1 [ball difcourfe of »'em will fute the'relilh of the World; ‘ becaufe I am to treat of the Faéis and Maxims of j common Ufe and Converfation, without which 'tis wimpoflible to penetrate into the true Spirit of githofe Courts: Andi {hall begin with the Port, or . Ottoman Court. ' |