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Show The Art of Travelling. 24 very of which gave me that fatisfaé‘tion which is ac greeable to one that travels for his Information. 7 But to render this Eflieét the more certain -, to this quality one ought to add a Curiohty that is not im- patient. Curiolity is needful in travelling, but then it ought not to be too brisk and lively, that one may the better diilemble the Motives of it, and cover "em with the ufual pretexts of fnch. a vain The Art of Travelling. 25 be {0; Men of all Countries in the World are fram d after fuch a manner, that no Man is willing to oblige another to his own difadvantage ', and the molt grateful and officious Perfon that can be Will never give an occalion of getting an advantage over him by what he difcovers. All that obferveaTraveller have in this refpeét the fame impreflion 5 we ry body fufpeéts that Man to have fome fpecialdeo Curiofity as only applies it felf to the defcription of Churches, Palaces, Gardens, Fortifications, and the detail of fuch Counfels and Circumitances as conveniences, which are inevitable. the meaneft Servants ofa Court always underiiand, pofe he has only a fenfual Curiolity are always in- - as well as thofe that compofeHiltorical Relations. dulgent enough to fatisty him in that refpeét ‘becaufe felt-love obliges a Man to difcover whatever There mult be Curioiity to mitigate the unealinefs and difficulty 3 man mufl: be fure to meet with in fign, who leaves his Family and his Country to expofe himfelf to Sicknefs and other Dangers and In‘ They that fup- own: for feeing Self-love hath more prcffing Rea- IS curious in his own Country to a Stranger: but it being another fort of Traveller that l have been fuppofing, namely, one who feeks to get an inlight into State-Policy, the chief Advice I would give fons when it deprives it felf of what is pleafing to it, him, is not to deveit himfelf of Curiolity (for that to expofe it felf to that to which it has an averlion -, 7tis necefiary that it be requited for quitting what it would be unrealbnable ) but not to be impatient in accommodating one's way of Living, Habit and Manners, to the Cultom of Countries fo unlike one's feeking to give it fatisfac‘iion. ' ' To naturally likes, by fome other fatisfaétion which Impatience is the daughter of Defire, and this the Fancy has the art to reprefent as greater, more rare, and more durable; without which there's no if it be reafonable, mutt be the produfiion of the probable ground to expect a Man fhould travel with delight, and 'twould be an unadvifed thing to at« tempt it. For to fuppofe that all thofe advantages whatever fets him at a greater diltance from the judgment, which will fully convince a Man that end he has in view, can't be proper to lead him to a Man may make ufe of in Travelling will excufe it. Now Impatience will infallibly fet our Traveller at a greater diitance trom the End he pro- him from all kind of uneafinefs, is to pleafe one's pofes, and confequently cannot be fit to promote {elf with a mere Delufion, efpecially when a Man goes out of the Chrii'tian part of Europe. Curiofity therefore mul't ferve initead of all other Pleafure to make amends for the Expence and Uneafinefs to which our Traveller is eXpos'd. This Curiohty deprives it felf of what it deiigns to obtain, when it once appears to be impatient, and it really is impatient when ever it appears to the Pleafure he expeéts from it. But to make it the better underftnod how and why Impatience retards the fatisi'acftion of the ,..uriolity, one need on- ly obferve that it produces fuch precaution in the Minds of thofe with whom a Traveller converfes, as becomes a kind of Partition-wall, that he mull: either pierce through or break down before he can .difcover what is aided on the other fide of it. The i.‘ T more |
