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of the two languages * and the two people ^ which is so materially dif > ferent - , a regard also must be had to the meaning of the correspondent terms , which frequently differ . A mountain in French is often a little hill in English , as a man in France would be charmed with a thing with which an Englishman would scarcely be satisfied j and an ac * of civility
which would make an English lady blush , cannot be dispensed with in a French society . It is in consequence of this custom of translating litera ] ly , from their gazettes that we gain sometimes an idea of what they say , or of what they do , vastly greater than even they themselves have ever entertained ; and hence they have often been charged with gasconading and with flattery , neither of which were ( was ) intended . Though the French appear to us given to bombast , and devoted to compliment , yet it may be doubtful whether they have really more
of the one or the other than the inhabitants of our island , because custom has taught them , though it has not us , the meaning' of the words they employ 5 and we well know that all governments view in an equally favourable light , and describe in the most pointed language , the advantages which they gain over their enemies , and are equally unsolicitous about adhering too closely to the truth . "
A great change has takea place in France since the Revolution ^ with respect to the comparative wealth of the towns and the country * The wealth of the country was originally collected in the towns while itself was always poor ; the contrary of this is now become the fact ; the towns are comparatively poor , while the country 3 retaining the fruits of its industry , begins to
assume a more gay and animating appearance . Those towns especially which either had no manufactories , or whose manufactories have decreased , exhibit a deplorable spectacle of beggary and wretchedness . In the Low Countries there is an entire stagnation of commerce , and since the entrance of the French , their taxes have been tripled . The price of provisions has been doubled within
the last three vears . " The difficulty which the middling and lower classes of men experience of living is very great , and their complaints are loud and unceasing . " [ To be continued . ]
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AUTICLE JV . The Sivnrd of ( he Lord and of Britain . A Sermon delivered at Pcckham , in Surrey , ' on the late Day of Thanksgiving for the Victory of Trafalgar . By William Bengo Collyer . Conder , 8 vo . pp , 24 . The motto to this Sermon is c < O Melibcee , Deus nobis haec otia fecit ;
not a happily chosen one ; if we consider that the discourse itself is warlike ^ and that it was delivered at a time when , as
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104 Colly er s Thanksgiving Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/48/
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