Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily (Classic Reprint)

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And other topics, furnish their continin it; not from any superior anxiety on my part to discover points of similarity between pagan and Christian times under this department of my subject, but from the intimate and Visible union which the forms of religion maintain with all the events of private life in those countries. It is to protect myself from any charge of illiberality in what I have to say under this head, that I have been induced to write this short preface afraid lest that should be taken for a polemical, which was only intended for a literary essay. I feel the more desirous that this should be clearly understood, because otherwise it might be supposed that I am about to renew the warfare against the church of.

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