Gents Mag 1805 p.1124

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1805 p.1124 counties. Some years ago, he observed, the young nobility and gentry, arrayed like sailors, with knapsacks flung at their backs, gained a difficult admission into his bar parlour; what was his suprize to discover that these gentlemen, apparently so little nice, were in fact the most fastidious of his guests; there were however excellent paymasters, and from his frequent experience of their liberality, he regretted seriously the loss of thier patronage. Nothing could be more absurd than this extravagnace, which like most other excesses, however, soon corrected itself: this was that cant and affectation of stoicism, which would convert a toil into a pleasure, by combating the existence, or stealing the perception of pain; and which as it originated only in sophistry, soon terminated in disgust. What athlete could endure a series of such sudden and extraordinary labour? What but the annihilation of that lively sympathy existing between mind and body, could enable a toil-worn traveller to participate a pleasure, which can only be relished in the full flow of strength and spirits, is at best only a transient, and of so delicate impression, as to be generally greatest in anticipation? Gross mistakes too were commonly committed in diet or management, which, with the debilitating effects of over-fatigue, either cooled the courage of the Hercules in his onset, or left him, if he persisted, "ad extremum ridendus." In short, the result of these chivalrous adventures always convinced me, (in the language of the French proverb): "Que la jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle!" (To be continued.) Although the article ends to be continued, there seems not to be any more. The index to volume 75 for 1805, under Cumberland, tour to, lists pp.609, 709, 804, 918, 1010, and 1121. The index for volume 76, 1806, has no relevant entry. The errata early in 1806 mention the author's indisposition.
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