A Journey Over Land to India
by Donald Campbell (9781443287654)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3reafon with the mixed operations of horror, wonder and reverence, to fit the credulous for the reception of every impofition, however grofs in conception, or bungled in execution. Thoie are the things which conftituted the greatnefs and fplendor of the cities of Ancient Chriflendom textit{-, to thofe has the fturdieft human vigour and intellect been forced to bend the knees: they were built to endure the outrages of time; and will ftand, I am fure, long, long after their power mall have been annihilated. What a powerful engine has fuperftition been, in the cunning management of Priefts How lamentable it is to think, that not only all who believed, but allJvho had good fenfe enough not to believe, mould, for fo many centuries, have been kept in pro/Irate fubmiffion to the will and dominion of an old man in Rome ?-My blufhes for the folly and fupinenefs of Mankind, however, are loft in a warm glow of tranfport at the prefent irradiation of the human mindtextit{; and though I can fcarcely think with patience of that glo - rious, Godlike being, Hen H Y the Second of England, being obliged by the Pope to lafti himfelf naked at the tomb of that faucy, wicked Prieft, Thomas A Becket, I felicitate myfelf with the reflection, that the Pope is now the moft contemptible Sovereign1 ia Europe, and that the Papal authority, which was once the terror and the fcourge of the earth, is now not only not recognifed, but feklom thought of, and, when thought of, only ferves to excite laughter or difguft. LETTERLETTER VII. . __ _j ( 1 H E town of Bruges, although the ftreets be, as I have already delcribed them, fo mean, narrow, dirty arid irregular in general, contains, neverthelefs, fome fewftreets that are tolerable, and a few fquares alfo that are far from contemptible.?I h6uld think it, neverthelefs, not...

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