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direffted to the quickening and nourishing of fenfitive 

 and figurative devotion as much as poffible ? Or, has 

 not all chriftendom, ever lince that glorious day, when 

 Jupiter Olympius and Capitolinus was depofed, by the 

 majora of the Roman fenate, from hib deity and pro 

 hac vice pofleflion from time immemorial, been al- 

 ways accuftomed to worfhip that unfearchable, incon- 

 ceivable, and unnameable, being, under bodily forms, 

 fymbols and hieroglyphics of all kinds, for placing it 

 a portee of poor fenfible men ? I, for my part, find 

 that my cofmopolitical way of thinking can very well 

 bear with every fpecies of latries and dulies of my bre- 

 thren and fillers on the face of the earth, (excepting 

 only human facrifices and dominican auto da fes) : and 

 that it feems to me far more eafy to forgive the jefuits 

 their devotion to the heart of Jefus, than — the gun- 

 powder plot : though indeed this may be vindicated 

 upon the glorious maxim, " Coge eos intrare, compel 

 them to come in," of which, however, the jefuits wejre 

 jiot the inventors, 



THE GERMAN PLAY AT VENICE. 

 AN ANECDOTE # . 



ALEXANDER, hereditary prince of W. took 

 the fancy, as many other German princes do, to make 

 the tour of Italy ; whether from the defire of looking 



about 



* On communicating this little piece of hiftory my readers 

 i&ufl: indulge me with the liberty of giving a few words by way 



