A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) / With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters

A VIEW OF SOCIETY and MANNERS IN FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AND GERMANY:
WITH ANECDOTES relating to some EMINENT CHARACTERS.
BY JOHN MOORE, M.D.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
Strenua nos exercet inertia: navibus atque
Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis, hic est.
Hor.
The FOURTH EDITION, Corrected.
LONDON: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXXI.
From a diffidence of his own abilities, and from other motives not so well founded, the Author of the following Letters thought it expedient, in the first edition, to throw a slight veil over the real situation in which they were written: he imagined also, that by this means some reflections, particularly those on gaming, might be introduced more naturally, and with a stronger effect. But having been assured by those of whose friendship and judgment he is equally convinced, that the assumed character and feigned situation in the two first letters gave an air of fiction to the real incidents in the rest of the work, he has now restored those two letters to their original form.
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