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Nov . 2 cL This morning I visited the Maisofi Carrie , a beautiful Roman temple in excellent preservation , scarcely any part of it being imperfect ; also the remains of the Temple of Diana , the public walk , and fountain , and an ancient tower , which is placed on the top of a high hill , overlooking the town , and to which various uses have been assigned—some supposing that it was a treasury , others a iight-house , &c . Accustomed as we are in England to regard with wonder every morsel of real Roman that we can find , though
jt be but a broken arch , or a few square feet of wall , how much does it astonish us to have such perfect buildings as the Maison Carree or the . Amphitheatre presented to our view , with not merely the general outline or skeleton preserved , but even the minute ornaments ! When I first saw the Former of these edifices , ( and I saw it too , as it ought to be seen , " by the pale moon-light , " ) I could scarcely believe that it was a Roman temple oa which I was gazing * The interior has been repaired , and fitted up as a hall for the reception of relics of the antique and works of modern art . It contains some good pictures and statues , and is a most delightful lounge .
3 d . On this and the two preceding days , there was a dry , parching cofcU ness in the air , like some of our worst weather in the month of March , This day it was the vent de bise , or north-east wind , which blew ; on the preceding it was the magestral , or mistral , i . e . the north-west . Sunday , 4 th . Attended the morning service at the principal Protestant church . The pew-opener * placed me on a semi-circular bench immediately opposite the pulpit , appropriated to the members of the Consistory ,
I soon found myself surrounded by a number of elderly and most highly respectable looking men . When I considered their calm and sensible countenances , and recollected the troubles and persecutions which this church had suffered in the years 1815 and 1816 , I could not help regarding them with feelings of love and veneration ; I looked upon them as " a noble army of martyrs , " as men " of whom the world is not worthy , " and who possess a reward , such as the world cannot give , in the high consciousness of
having stood firm to their principles , notwithstanding the ill-disgqised enmity of a bigoted court and the excesses of an infuriated populace . M . Foptanes was the preacher . He had a good congregation of five or six hundred persons , who were very attentive to his discourse ; and it would have been Strange had it been otherwise , for I have seldom , if ever , heard preaching with which I was better pleased . The text was taken from 1 Cor . xi . 17 , " Now in this that I declare unto you , I praise you not , that ye come together , not for the better , but for the worse ; " and the object of the preacher was
to shew what a discourse is , or ought to be , and how the hearers may best profit by it . " A discourse , " he observed , " is , in fact , a conversation or familiar address fentretienj ; for , as the pastor has not time to talk on reli ^ g ious subjects , as much as he could wish , to the members of his flock at their own houses , he says to them all , when assembled together , what he would desire to say to each individual in private . " The discourse of ML Fontan £ s corresponded exactly to this definition . It had all the best points of the French style and manner , and none of tfreir defects . There were no overwrought appeals to the feelings—no tinsel decorations or oratorical der
* I use this word for the want of a better , for there can be no such officer as a pew-opener where there are no pews to open . The body of the French Protestant churches is tilled with chairs , arranged in pretty close rows , those in the same line Ijejng fastened together ami kept in tfoeir places by Jong Blips of woq 4 fiaited at the top and the bottom .
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82 Journal of a Tour in the Ssuth of France .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/10/
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