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Chapter 5 What Snobs Admire

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are Snobs, to say 'You are confessedly a Snob yourself. In professing to depict Snobs, it is only your own ugly mug which you are copying with a Narcissus-like conceit and fatuity.' But I shall pard

gained, surely. If I have pointed out the disease, let us h

out of doors; you whom the policeman tells to move on; you who are jostled in the crowd of this world, and amongst the Snobs our brethren: consider how much harder it is for a

d mother occupied, as everybody knows, distinguished posts in the Courts of late Sovereigns. The Marquis was Lord of the Pantry, and her Ladyship, Lady of the Powder Closet to Queen Charlotte. Buck (as I call hi

e and pleasure to the most noble the Marquis of Bagwig, as one of the kind friends and patrons of his Seminary. He made Lord Buckram a bait for such a multiplicity of pupils, that a new wing was built to Richmond Lodge, and thirty-five new little white dimity beds were added to the establishment. Mm. Rose used to take out the little Lord in the one-horse chaise with her when she paid visits, until the Rec

. Young Croesus lent him three-and-twenty bran-new sovereigns out of his father's bank. Young Snaily did his exercises for him, and tried 'to know him at home;' but Young Bull licked him in

s. There was no end now to Croesus's loans of money; and Buckram couldn't ride out with the hounds, but Snaily (a timid creature by nature) was in the field, and would take any leap at which his friend chose to ride. Young Rose came up to the same College, having been kept back for that express purpose by his father. He spent a quarter's allowance in giving Buckram a single dinner; but he knew there was always pardon for him for extravagance in such a

aden; Miss Leggitt burst into tears before his face when he announced his determination to quit Naples, and fainted on the neck of her mamma: Captain Macdragon, of Macdragonstown, County Tipperary, called upon him to 'explene his intintions with respect to his sisther, Miss Amalia Macdragon, of Macdragonstown,' and proposed to shoot him unl

s, and who has been such a prodigious favourite with men. If we were to describe him it would be personal. B

n: the public will sympathize good-naturedly with his amusements, and say he is a hearty, honest fellow. Suppose he is fond of play and the turf; and has a fancy to be a blackleg, and occasionally condescends to pluck a pigeon at cards; the public will pardon him, and many honest people will court him, as they would court a housebreaker if he happened to be a Lord. Suppose he is an idiot; yet, b

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Contents

The Book of Snobs
Prefatory Remarks
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The Book of Snobs
Chapter 1 The Snob Playfully Dealt with
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Chapter 2 The Snob Royal
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Chapter 3 The Influence of the Aristocracy On Snobs
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Chapter 4 The Court Circular, and Its Influence On Snobs
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Chapter 5 What Snobs Admire
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Chapter 6 On Some Respectable Snobs
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Chapter 7 On Some Respectable Snobs
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Chapter 8 Great City Snobs
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Chapter 9 On Some Military Snobs
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Chapter 10 Military Snobs
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Chapter 11 On Clerical Snobs
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Chapter 12 On Clerical Snobs and Snobbishness
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Chapter 13 On Clerical Snobs
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Chapter 14 On University Snobs
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Chapter 15 On University Snobs
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Chapter 16 On Literary Snobs
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Chapter 17 A Little About Irish Snobs
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Chapter 18 Party-Giving Snobs
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Chapter 10 Dining-Out Snobs
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Chapter 20 Dinner-Giving Snobs Further Considered
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Chapter 21 Some Continental Snobs
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Chapter 22 Continental Snobbery Continued
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Chapter 23 English Snobs On the Continent
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Chapter 24 On Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 25 A Visit to Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 26 On Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 27 A Visit to Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 28 On Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 29 A Visit to Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 30 On Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 31 A Visit to Some Country Snobs
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Chapter 32 Snobbium Gatherum
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Chapter 33 Snobs and Marriage
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Chapter 34 Snobs and Marriage
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Chapter 35 Snobs and Marriage
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Chapter 36 Snobs and Marriage
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Chapter 37 Club Snobs
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Chapter 38 Club Snobs
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Chapter 39 Club Snobs
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Chapter 40 Club Snobs
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Chapter 41 Club Snobs
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Chapter 42 Club Snobs
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Chapter 43 Club Snobs
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Chapter 44 Club Snobs
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Concluding Observations On Snobs
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