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i56 A TOUR THROUGH
mysteries of Eleusis were nothing to the
amazing mystery of transubstantiation; the
only one that ever attempted to set both
our under (landing and our senses at
defiance, and baffles equally all the
faculties both of the soul and body.
—He would, likewise, be a good deal at
a loss to account for the strange metamor-
phosis of some of his old friends. That
(he would say) I can well remember, was
the statue of Venus Meretrix, and was
only worshipped by the loose and volup-
tuous. She seems to be wonderfully
improved since you made her a christian;
for I find slie is now become the great pro-
te&ress of chastity and of virtue.----Juno
too, who was so implacable and so re-
vengeful, you have softened down into a
very moderate sort of deity; for I ob-
serve you address her with as little fear
or ceremony as any of the rest of them ;
I wish you would make the Furies chris-
tians too, for surely they would be much
. the
mysteries of Eleusis were nothing to the
amazing mystery of transubstantiation; the
only one that ever attempted to set both
our under (landing and our senses at
defiance, and baffles equally all the
faculties both of the soul and body.
—He would, likewise, be a good deal at
a loss to account for the strange metamor-
phosis of some of his old friends. That
(he would say) I can well remember, was
the statue of Venus Meretrix, and was
only worshipped by the loose and volup-
tuous. She seems to be wonderfully
improved since you made her a christian;
for I find slie is now become the great pro-
te&ress of chastity and of virtue.----Juno
too, who was so implacable and so re-
vengeful, you have softened down into a
very moderate sort of deity; for I ob-
serve you address her with as little fear
or ceremony as any of the rest of them ;
I wish you would make the Furies chris-
tians too, for surely they would be much
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