Excerpt from The School for Wives: Comedy With respeet to the gentlemen of Ireland, where even an absolute attempt is manifested to place them in a favourable point of view, they are drawn with a brutal promptitude to quarrel, which is a disgrace to the well-known humanity of thgir country - The gentlemen of Ireland have doubtless squid: sense of honour; and, like the gentlemen of England, as well as like the gentlemen of every other high-spirited nation, are perhaps unhappily too ready to draw the sword, where they can ceive themselves injured - But to make them proud of a bar barous propensity to duelling, to make them aetually delight in the effusion of blood, is to fasten a very unjust reproach upon their general character, and to render them universally oh noxious to society. The author of the Scuoor. Roe wivts, therefore, has given a different pleiure of Irish manners, though in humble life; and fiatters himself, that those who are really acquainted with the original, will acknowledge it to be at least a tolerable resemblance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.