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370 A TOUR THROUGH
yet every one of these nations still retain
something of their original chara&eristic :
It is only the exuberance of it that is
wore off; and it is still easy to distinguish
the inhabitants of the south and north
side of the Pyrenees, as well as those of
the east and west side of the Rhine j for
though the Parisian has, in a great mea-
sure, lost his assuming air, the Spaniard
his taciturnity and solemnity, the German
his formality and his pride ; yet still you
see the German, the Frenchman, and the
Spaniard : It is only the caricature, that
formerly made them ridiculous, that has
disappeared.
This institution, which is a strange
compound of the military and ecclesiastic,
has now subsisted for near seven hundred
years ; and though, I believe, one of the
first-born, has long survived every other
child of chivalry. It possesses great riches
in
yet every one of these nations still retain
something of their original chara&eristic :
It is only the exuberance of it that is
wore off; and it is still easy to distinguish
the inhabitants of the south and north
side of the Pyrenees, as well as those of
the east and west side of the Rhine j for
though the Parisian has, in a great mea-
sure, lost his assuming air, the Spaniard
his taciturnity and solemnity, the German
his formality and his pride ; yet still you
see the German, the Frenchman, and the
Spaniard : It is only the caricature, that
formerly made them ridiculous, that has
disappeared.
This institution, which is a strange
compound of the military and ecclesiastic,
has now subsisted for near seven hundred
years ; and though, I believe, one of the
first-born, has long survived every other
child of chivalry. It possesses great riches
in