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36912 sdt wada of babasɔong treft H mort noitsu dalou I edi ot maija bad wur No5257. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1710. ;ebasi 1297seb sdt nowed domeup latit teor basebrang It bṣamily vitasmosa bed i soli -9inoe bar In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas 120g abso s ni haCorpora: Dii, cœptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) 29m1. ni 19m Aspirate meis, na prenor bozottab bed brow to moitnovanq edi 1f SHELL - OVID. MET. yuj si baru ani si aut art set al, dair ladt From my own Apartment, November 29, EVERY 4VERY nation is distinguished by productions that are peculiar to it. Great Britain is particularly fruitful in religions, that shoot up and flourish in this climate more than in any other. We are so famous abroad for our great variety of sects and opinions, that an ingenious friend of mine, who is lately returned from his travels, assures me, there is a show at this time carried up and down in Germany, which represents all the religions of Great Britain in wax-work, Notwithstanding that the pliancy of the matter in which the images are wrought, makes it capable of being moulded into all shapes and figures, my friend tells me, that he did not think it possible for it to be twisted and tortured into so many screwed faces and wry features as appeared in several of the figures that composed the show. I was, indeed, so pleased with the design of the German artist, that I begged my friend to give me an account of it in all its particulars, which he did after the following manner.

"I have often (says he) been present at a show of elephants, camels, dromedaries, and other strange creatures, but I never saw so great an assembly of spectators as were met together at the opening of this great piece of wax-work. We were all placed in a large hall, according to the price we had paid for our seats: the curtain that hung be

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fore the show was made by a master of tapestry, whom had swoven it in the figure of a monstrous hydra, that had several heads, which brandished out their tongues, and seemed to hiss at each others Some of these heads were larges andi entire and where any of them had been dopped away, there sprouted up several in the room of them; insot much, that for one head cut off, a man might see ten, twenty, or an hundred of a smaller size, creeping through the wound. In short, the whole pic ture was nothing but confusion and bloodshed: On a sudden (says my friend) I was startled with a flourish of many musical instruments that I had never heard before, which was followed by a short tune (if it might be so called) wholly made up of jars and discords. Among the rest, there was an organ, a bagpipe, a groaning-board, a stentorophonic trumpet, with several wind-instruments of a most disagreeable sound, which I do not so much as know the names of After a short flourish, the curtain was drawn up, and we were presented with the most extraordinary assemblage of figures that ever entered into a man's imagination. The design of the workman was so well expressed in the dumb show before us, that it was not hard for an Englishman to comprehend the meaning of it.

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"The principal figures were placed in a row, consisting of seven persons. The middle figure, which immediately attracted the eyes of the whole company, and was much bigger than the rest, was formed like a matron, dressed in the habit of an elderly woman of quality in Queen Elizabeth's days. The most remarkable parts of her dress, was the beaver with the steeple crown, the scarf that was darker than sable, and the lawn apron that was whiter than ermin. Her gown was of the -richest black velvet, and just upon her heart stud

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ded with large diamonds of an inestimable value,} disposed in the form a cross. She bore an inex pressibles chearfulness and dignity in her aspect;i and though she seemed in years, appeared with so much spirits and vivacity, las gave her cat the same time an air of old age and immortality.dk found my heart touched with so much love and reverence at the sight of her, that the tears ran down my face as I looked upon her; and still the more I looked upon her, the more my heart was melted with the sentiments of filial tenderness and duty. I discovered every moment something so charming in this figure, that I could scarce take my eyes off it. On its right hand there sat the figure of a woman so covered with ornaments, that her face, her body, and her hands, were almost entirely hid under them. The little you could see of her face was painted; and what I thought very odd, had something in it like artificial wrinkles; but I was the less surprized at it, when I saw upon forehead an old-fashioned tower of grey hairs. Her head-dress rose very high by three several stories or degrees; her garments had a thousand colours in them, and were embroidered with crosses in gold, silver and silk: she had nothing on, not so much as a glove or a slipper, which was not marked with this figure; nay, so superstiously fond did she appear of it, that she sat cross-legged. I was quickly sick of this tawdry composition of rib-bands, silks and jewels, and therefore cast my eye on a dame which was just the reverse of it. "I need not tell my reader, that the lady before described was Popery, or that she I am now going to describe is Presbytery. She sat on the left hand of the venerable matron, and so much resembled sher in the features of her countenance, that she seemed her sister; but at the same time that one observed La likeness in her beauty, one could not but take no

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tice, that there was something in it, sickly and splenetic Her face had enough to discover the ae Jation, but it was drawn up into ao peevish figure, sowrede with discontent, and overcast withme lancholy. She seemed offended at the matron for the shape of her hat, as too much resembling the triple coronet of the person who sat by hero One might see likewise, that she dissented from the white apron and the cross; for which reasons ostre had made herself a plain homely dowdy, and turned her face towards the sectaries that sat on her left hand, as being afraid of looking upon the matron, lest she should see the harlot by her do and bio" On the right hand of Popery sate Judaism, rerepresented by an old man embroidered with phylacteries, and distinguished by many typical figures, which I had not skill enough to unriddle.on He was placed among the rubbish of a temple; but, instead of weeping over it, (which I should have expected from him,) he was counting out a bag of money upon the ruins of it.

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"On his right hand was Deism, or Natural Religion. This was a figure of an half-naked, aukward country wench, who, with proper ornaments and education, would have made an agreeable and beautiful appearance; but for want of those advantages, was such a spectacle as a man would blush to look upon. 7.9W cobondigos I have now (continued my friend) given you can account of those who were placed on the right hand of the matron, and who, according to the order in which they sat, were Deism, Judaism, and Popery. On the left hand, as) I told you, cappeared Presbytery. The next to her was a figure which somewhat puzzled me: it was that of a mán looking, with horror in his eyes, upon a silver bason filled with water. Observing something in his countenance that looked likeblunacy, le fan

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cied at first, that he wasnto express that kind of distraction which theo physicians call the hydro phobia debut considering what the intentior of the showd was, immediately recollected myself, and concluded it to bebAnabaptism.952 542 vlodonsi S"The next figure was a man that sat under a most profound composure of mind: he wore an hat whose brims were exactly parallel with the horizontohist garment had neither sleeve nor skirt, nor so much as a superfluous button. What they called his cravat, was a little piece of white linen quilled with Xactness, and hanging below his chin about two inches. Seeing a book in his hand, I asked our artist what it was, who told me it was the Quakers' religion; upon which I desired a sight of it. Upon perusal. I found it to be nothing but a new-fashioned grammar, organ art of abridging ordinary discourse. Thes nouns were reduced to a very small number, as the light, friend, Babylon. The principal of his pronouns was thou; and as for you, ye, and yours, I found they were not looked upon as parts of speech in this grammar. All the verbs wanted the second person plural; the participles ending all in ing, or ed, which were marked with a particular accent. There were no adverbs, besides yea and nay. The same thrift was observed in the prepositions. The conjunctions were only hem! and ha and the interjections brought under the three heads of sighing, sobbing, and groaning. There was at the sends of the grammar a little nomenclature, called, The Christian Man's Vocabulary, which gave hew appellations, or (if you will) Christian names to almost every thing in life. I replaced the booksin the hand of the figure, not without admiring the simplicity of its garb, speech, and behaviour doo! ni Just opposite to this row of religions, there was a statue dressed in a fool's coat, with a cap of bells

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