![]() It may likewise seem surprizing that in the many thousand kind invitations of this sort, which every one who hath conversed with country gentlemen must have heard, no one, I believe, hath ever seen a single instance where the desire hath been complied with - a great instance of their want of politeness for in town nothing can be more common than for the finest gentlemen to perform this ceremony every day to their superiors, without having that favour once requested of them. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss you a- for having just before threatened ti kick his for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another. And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. ![]() It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. Allusions to this part are likewise often made for the sake of jest. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. ![]() ![]() “He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question with frequent applications to him to salute that part which is generally introduced into all controversies that arise among the lower orders of the English gentry at horse-races, cock-matches, and other public places. ![]()
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