Letters on the English Nation, Volume 1S. Crowder, 1755 - Great Britain |
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Page 44 - When these people, in their travels, see a poor Italian pouring forth the warm devotion of his soul before the image of his patron saint, they conclude him a fool, or a deluded bigot, because he can draw no advantage from this image, which is inanimate and void of power; they laugh at this as idolatry, not once conceiving that the rapture which fills the soul of this devotee is as real and effectual joy to him ... as if the image was impowered with all the acts of creation.
Page 216 - the women of quality have much of the shepherdess mien, or rather inclining to something less modest, the nymphs of the town. This air, I presume, these ladies affect for a moral purpose, that by this artifice all kinds of characters in women looking alike, the men shall be afraid to accost any of them, lest peradventure they should meet a virtuous woman, and be rejected with contempt. Thus the dames of avowed...
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