text:  For ourselves who meet him but too often we would as soon approach without necessity a huxter's mongrel growling under his master's cart as venture near enough to examine all the small-wares of one who "hates coxcombs " and is the very prince of fops; laughs at pedants and only wants a _little more learning_ to attempt the character; with whom no repetition of familiar acts can reconcile you and to whom no number of dinners can conquer your repugnance