The Book of Snobs1st World Publishing, 2004 - 260 pages Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - (The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations: - I am the individual destined to write that work - My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence - I show that the world has been gradually preparing itself for the WORK and the MAN - Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful ( with a large B). They pervade all classes - Affecting instance of Colonel Snobley.) We have all read a statement, (the authenticity of which I take leave to doubt entirely, for upon what calculations I should like to know is it founded?) - we have all, I say, been favoured by perusing a remark, that when the times and necessities of the world call for a Man, that individual is found. Thus at the French Revolution (which the reader will be pleased to have introduced so early), when it was requisite to administer a corrective dose to the nation, Robespierre was found; a most foul and nauseous dose indeed, and swallowed eagerly by the patient, greatly to the latter's ultimate advantage: thus, when it became necessary to kick John Bull out of America, Mr. Washington stepped forward, and performed that job to satisfaction: thus, when the Earl of Aldborough was unwell, Professor Holloway appeared with his pills, and cured his lordship, as per advertisement, &c.&c. Numberless instances might be adduced to show that when a nation is in great want, the relief is at hand; just as in the Pantomime (that microcosm) where when CLOWN wants anything - a warming-pan, a pump-handle, a goose, or a lady's tippet - a fellow comes sauntering out from behind the side-scenes with the very article in question. |
Table des matières
THE SNOB PLAYFULLY DEALT WITH | 11 |
THE SNOB ROYAL | 17 |
THE INFLUENCE OF THE ARISTOCRACY ON SNOBS | 22 |
THE COURT CIRCULAR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SNOBS | 27 |
WHAT SNOBS ADMIRE | 33 |
ON SOME RESPECTABLE SNOBS | 38 |
ON SOME RESPECTABLE SNOBS | 43 |
GREAT CITY SNOBS | 50 |
ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 134 |
A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 139 |
ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 146 |
A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 151 |
ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 156 |
A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 163 |
ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 169 |
A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS | 174 |
ON SOME MILITARY SNOBS | 56 |
MILITARY SNOBS | 61 |
ON CLERICAL SNOBS | 66 |
ON CLERICAL SNOBS AND SNOBBISHNESS | 70 |
ON CLERICAL SNOBS | 76 |
ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS | 80 |
ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS | 86 |
ON LITERARY SNOBS | 90 |
A LITTLE ABOUT IRISH SNOBS | 95 |
PARTYGIVING SNOBS | 100 |
DININGOUT SNOBS | 106 |
DINNERGIVING SNOBS FURTHER CONSIDERED | 111 |
SOME CONTINENTAL SNOBS | 117 |
CONTINENTAL SNOBBERY CONTINUED | 123 |
ENGLISH SNOBS ON THE CONTINENT | 128 |
SNOBBIUM GATHERUM | 179 |
SNOBS AND MARRIAGE | 186 |
SNOBS AND MARRIAGE | 191 |
SNOBS AND MARRIAGE | 197 |
SNOBS AND MARRIAGE | 204 |
CLUB SNOBS | 210 |
CLUB SNOBS | 216 |
CLUB SNOBS | 220 |
CLUB SNOBS | 224 |
CLUB SNOBS | 230 |
CLUB SNOBS | 234 |
CLUB SNOBS | 240 |
CLUB SNOBS | 246 |
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