REMARKS on LAP-DOGS. 7 i 
great humanity ; but the proverbial faying, “ that England is 
“ the bell: country in the world for women, and the word for 
" horses,” is often verified. With refped to the true medium 
of regard to the brute creation, the kissing of a dog, and the 
driving a horse, without an urgent neceffity, till he drops 
down dead, feems equally abfurd, tho’ the firft may be lead: 
offenfive to humanity. 
To judge of things with propriety and delicacy, or in other 
words, according to reafon and nature, a man of tafle and fen- 
timent may look on a country girl milking a cow, with great 
complacency : his pleafure may be proportioned to her figure, 
and beauty, becaufe fhe is adting in character, and performing 
a ufeful office. But the fame perfon will be shock’d to fee a lady 
raviffiing a dog with her cardies; and the more diflinguifhed fhe 
is for her perfonal charms, the more fhocking fhe will appear. 
If it is in character for a fine lady to do abfurd things, a fine 
lady then is a foolish lady, which is a hard definition to be 
applied to that fpecies of beings, who of all the vifible creation 
are ambitious of being thought the moft charming. Adieu. 
I am yours, 
LETTER XXVI. 
To the fame. 
M A D a m, 
I Will now be entirely ferious, and tell you that it is not 
dogs, nor horfes, monkey, cats, nor elephants, which have 
been fo much the objedls of my thoughts, on this occafion, as 
immoderate grief for trifles. 
To 
