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tÎTie people at once fliade and ûielter? There are 

 iome who introduce into the trophies which orna- 

 cnenr the town relidences of our grandees, bows, 

 aiTows, catapuks ; and who have carried the fim- 

 plîcity of the thing to fuch a height, as to plant 

 on them Roman ftandards, infcribed with thefe 

 charafters, S. P. Q. R. This may be feen in the 

 Palace de Bourbon. Pofterity will be taught to 

 believe, that the Romans were, in the eighteenth 

 century, mafters of our country. And in what 

 «iliraation do we mean, vain as we are, that our 

 memory fliould be heid by them, if our monu- 

 nients, our medals, our trophies, our dramas, our 

 ânfcriptions, coniinually hol4 out to them, flrangers 

 and antiquity ? 



The Greeks and Romatis were much more con- 

 iiftent. Never did they dream of conftruifling ufc- 

 iefs monuments. Their beautiful vafes of alabaRer 

 and calcedony were employed, in feftivals, for 

 holding wine, or perfumes^ their periftyles al- 

 ways announced a palace; their public places were 

 deftined only to the purpofe of alTembling the 

 people. There they reared the ftatues of their 

 great men, without enclofmg them in rails of iron, 

 in order that their images might ftill be within 

 reach of the miferabie, and be open to their invo- 

 cation after death, as they themfelves had been 

 while they were alive. Juvenal fpeaks of a ftarue 



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