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description of it that he pleases , whether ^ ay or serious , literary , scientific , or religious , and the latter in both its varieties of liberal and illiberal . 24 th . Left Geneva in the diligence * and came across the Jura , and by vray of Dijon to Paris . Paris , Sunday , June 29 th . Heard M . Monod at the Oratoire . He preached on a common-place subject , the love of our enemies , from Matt . v . 43 — 48 , but the matter and the manner were any thing else than common-place . They were in the highest style of sacred oratory ; the discourse itself plain , clear , and direct , with no ambitious ornaments of rhetoric , yet abounding in the noblest flights of eloquence , and the most touching appeals to the
feelings ; the action graceful and commanding , peculiarly appropriate to the several parts of what was spoken , yet entirely free from any thing like theatrical display . I know no preacher who seems to set forth and embody , as this gentleman does , the majesty of the religion of which he is the advocate . He evidently feels the dignity of his subject , and he has the art of bringing
that subject home to the breasts of his audience , in all its force and in all its importance . I look upon M . Monod as decidedly the first of preachers ; and I have the less scruple in expressing my opinion of him thus favourably , as I was on this occasion accompanied by an English friend , a man of strong sense and an unsophisticated understanding , who was scarcely less pleased than I was .
July 1 st . Went down to Amboise on the Loire , and spent a week very pleasantly with my friends the B . ' s . The weather was intensely hot for several days , the thermometer rising as high on one of them as 86 of Farenheit . This country has a much more attractive appearance now than it had when I was here before , in the winter of 1826-7 . It was then covered with
snow , or bound hard with frost for weeks , and even months together , for that was the severest winter that had been experienced in France since 1789 ; it is now blooming in all the beauty of summer . If I were inclined to reside in France , I would certainly choose this neighbourhood—either Amboise , or Tours , or Blois , or some other place in the same district . I regard it as possessing four very considerable advantages : in the first place , it has a mild climate ; secondly , every thing is very cheap , the wages of a woman-servant being from 100 to 120 franks a year , the hire of a pair of horses for the day 8 franks , and other things in the same proportion ; thirdly , there is purer French spoken here than in any other part of France ; and , fourthly , it is not too far from England , which would be convenient in case of a sudden call . 11 th , at Paris . Attended at the Italian Opera House , where William Tell was performed by Mr . Macready and an English company . I was glad to see so many French present : of those about me in the pit the majority certainly were of this nation , and they seemed -to be well satisfied with the performance . To every man who wishes to see the two nations united in the bonds of friendship and a good understanding , the success which this company has met with in Paris must be very gratifying . There has been a great change in national feeling in the last five or six years . The English company which some time ago acted at the Porte San Martin were hissed : now the French not only assist at the performances of Mr . Abbot and his
corps dramatique , but are among the most enthusiastic of their admirers . Sunday , the 13 th . In the evening 1 took a walk beyond the Luxembourg gardens . Here were to be seen multitudes of the lower orders of Paris taking in their fill of enjoyment . In one place was a monkey exhibiting his tricks in a small temporary theatre ; in another , a number of happy cou-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/17/
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