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And necessarily the burning desire of the multitude, the holy madness of the universal joy, was destined to sweep aside the rigid, morose conceptions of a well-regulated society in which the ever-recurring epidemical attacks of religious hallucination are condemned as prejudicial to good order and healthiness of mind. The Sainte-Honorine Ward, on hearing the story, likewise revolted.
Dieu ne fit la sagesse Pour les cerveaux qui hantent les neuf Soeurs." In these days of omnivorous readers, the position of authors has decidedly improved. It has been the fashion of authors of all ages to complain bitterly of their own times. Bayle calls it an epidemical disease in the republic of letters, and poets seem especially liable to this complaint.
We mounted, spurred back through the grove of pines which protect Valombrosa from intrusion, descended the steeps, and, gaining the plains, galloped in three hours to Florence. SIENNA, October 26th. At last fears were overcome, the epidemical fever at Rome allowed to be no longer dangerous, and myself permitted to quit Florence.
I hope the disease is not epidemical, and that you have not determined against any communication with the rest of the world.
'They change one bad way for another, hopping, as the squirrel, from bough to bough, but not willing to forsake the tree, from drunkards to be covetous, and from that to pride and lasciviousness this is a grand deceit, common, and almost a disease epidemical among professors. p. 532.
This idea of an epidemical disorder at Turin has alarmed Lady Carlisle, and I have caught some of the fright of her. March returned yesterday from Lord Spencer's, and the usual company supped at the Duke of Grafton's. Mrs. Horton sets out for Nice with a toad-eater and an upper servant of the Duke's this next week.
I look upon the French army as 'fondue'; and, what with desertion, deaths, and epidemical distempers, I dare say not a third of it will ever return to France. The great object is now, what the Russians can or will do; and whether the King of Prussia can hinder their junction with the Austrians, by beating either, before they join. I will trust him for doing all that can be done.
Hence comes the epidemical infection: for how can they escape the contagion of the writings whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from reading?" There is another mischief, arising out of ephemeral literature, which was noticed by the same great author. "Wheresoever manners and fashions are corrupted," says he, "language is. It imitates the public riot.
You say that Dresden is very sickly; I am sure London is at least as sickly now, for there reigns an epidemical distemper, called by the genteel name of 'l'influenza'. It is a little fever, of which scarcely anybody dies; and it generally goes off with a little looseness. I have escaped it, I believe, by being here. God keep you from all distempers, and bless you! LONDON, October 30, 1767.
It is slander, a sin which in all times and places hath been epidemical and rife; but which especially doth seem to reign and rage in our age and country. There are principles innate to men, which ever have, and ever will incline them to this offence.
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