text:  But what are the words? Are they words in the mouth of every one and such as a superficial dilettante might easily pick up; or do they either of themselves or from the conjunctures in which they are employed exhibit a consummate acquaintance with the dialect and habits of the people to which they refer? Besides it should be remembered that French is a language far more familiar to well-educated people in England than Spanish ever was to the French and that Smollett had lived much in France; whereas Le Sage knew from books alone the language which he has employed with so much colloquial elegance and facility