ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EIGHTH EDITION .
INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
Lately published by the same Author ,
FOOTNOTES.
THE
Fashionable World
DISPLAYED.
BY THE
REV. JOHN OWEN, A.M.
LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;
AND RECTOR OF PAGLESHAM, ESSEX.
VELUTI IN SPECULUM.
THE STAGE.
Eighth Edition.
LONDON:
PRINTED
FOR L. B. SEELEY, FLEET STREET.
1817.
TO
THE RIGHT REVEREND
BEILBY PORTEUS, D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF LONDON,
NOT MORE DISTINGUISHED
BY
HIS ELOQUENCE AS A PREACHER,
HIS VIGILANCE AS A PRELATE,
HIS SANCTITY AS A CHRISTIAN,
AND
HIS VARIOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS
AS
A SCHOLAR AND A MAN,
THAN BY
HIS INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS
TO DETECT THE ERRORS,
REBUKE THE FOLLIES,
AND
REFORM THE VICES,
OF THE
FASHIONABLE WORLD,
THE FOLLOWING ATTEMPT
TO BENEFIT THAT PART OF SOCIETY,
BY MEANS TOO FREQUENTLY EMPLOYED
TO CORRUPT IT,
IS
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY
HIS LORDSHIP’S FAITHFUL
AND
DUTIFUL SERVANT,
The AUTHOR.
Fulham.
