High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside

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Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside: Picked Up in the French ProvincesI am answered, perhaps, that time is not given to all men in the same profuseness that where I have a year to spare, another may have but a month. Then, I reply, spend your month with profit. Measure at the end of it the minds you have analysed, not the league. You have driven over, and if you have but sauntered through one district of a foreign nation, in communion With the inhabitants, you are better informed than he who has galloped from Calais to Paris, and thence to Florence, Rome, and Naples, But a crusty opponent might say that this is all labor in vain, tell me that most men travel merely to talk of it, or that Voyager at an triste plaisir, i cite the Scotch proverb, Sen' a fool to France, and he'll come back a fool, -quote, gravely, if he will.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.