Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

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dispos’d to declare themselves a Free
Common-wealth, after the Death of the
Dutchess of Nemours, if the Swist will
support them. The Protestant Cantons
seem much inclin’d to assist them, which
they may very well do, in case the Dut-
chess dies whilst the King of France has
his Hands so full of Business on all sides
of him. It certainly very much concerns
them not to suffer the French King to
Establilh his Authority on this side
Mount Jura, and on the very Borders
of their Country; but it is not easie to
foresee what a round Sum of Mony,
or the Fear of a Rupture with France,
may do among a People who have
tamely suffer’d the Franche Compte to
be seiz’d on, and a Fort to be built
within Cannon-shot of one of their
Cantons.
There is a new Se£t fprung up in
Switzerland, which spreads very much
in the Protestant Cantons. The Pib-
fessbrs of it call themselves Pietijl'. and
as Enthusiasm carries Men generally to
the like Extravagancies, they differ but
little from several Sectaries in other
Countries. They pretend in general to-
great Refinements, as to what regards
the Practice of Christianity, and to ob-
serve the following Rules. To retire
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