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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: By his insolence and his preaching I take that fellow to be both an aristocrat and a priest?Don't you think so ?' ' As for his insolence, ' I answered, ' it entirely escaped me; so I can say nothing about it. But whether he be a priest or not, I must acknowledge that I have heard worse sermons.' . ' I have a great mind to denounce him as a suspected person, ' said Ciootz, ' and have him taken up.' You had much better take the advice he gave you, ' said I. Those who overheard us expressed the same opinion, on which Ciootz declared he had no intention to accuse him. I hope he did follow the counsel which this man gave him; for the wretched Anacharsis had the misfortune a short time after to fall under the displeasure of Robespierre, who ordered him to the guillotine. The impiety, whether real or affected, that prevails at present in France, is more disgusting to me than superstition: though I like neither, I wish to believe in religion by my reason, not by renouncing my reason. Yours, J. MORflAUNT. LETTER VII. The Same to the Same. Vevay. I Do not know what effect this ramble has had on you, Sommers, but it has been of serf ice to me: it has hitherto kept the demon of tedium from me. Though the sky was so dismal while I was writing my two last letters, that I was obliged to use candle-light at mid-day, yet I still scribbled on about the French revolution: the weather seemed to sympathize with my subject. Last night there was no sleeping for thunder. From your London thunder no idea is to be formed of the loudness of the peals and perseverance of the reverberation of thunder in the Alps. It is At if this Of heaven were falling, and the elements, ln mutiny, had frcm her ailc torn The stcdfast earth.' You remember the young man from the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458941220 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458941221 |
| Weight | 1.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 In |
| List Price | $27.36 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 438 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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