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SCG-C.746.003
11 Jan 1746:21, 22 (616)
The following extract from Mr. Addison's Remarks on several
Parts of Italy, I hope will be favourably received by my
readers, at this time, That ingenious author, in his remarks
on Switzerland, (p. 286, 287, 288, ) says
It is the great endeavour of the several cantons of
Switzerland, to banish among them every thing that looks
like pomp or superfluity. To this end the ministers are
always preaching, and the governors putting out edicts
against dancing, gaming, entertainments, and fine cloaths.
This is become more necessary in some of the governments,
since there are so many refugees settled among them; for
tho' the protestants in France affect ordinarily a greater
plainness and simplicity of manners, than those of the same
quality who are of the Roman Catholick communion, they have
however too much of their country-gallantry for the genius
and constitution of Switzerland. Should dressing, feasting,
and balls once get among the cantons, their military
roughness wou'd be quickly lost, their tempers would grow
too soft for their climate, and their expences out-run their
incomes. . . [some text loss in column 2]
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