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no A TOUR THROUGH
who sometimes come and drop a tear over
their departed friends.
I am not sure if this is not a better
method of disposing of the dead than
ours. These visits mull prove admirable
lesfons of humility; and I asstire you,
they are not such objects of horror as you
would imagine : they are said, even for
ages after death, to retain a strong like-
ness to what they were when alive; so
that, as soon as you have conquered the
first feeling excited by these venerable
figures, you only consider this as a vast
gallery of original portraits, drawn after
the life, by the justest and moll unpre-
judiced hand. It mud be owned that
the colours are rather faded; and the
pencil does not appear to have been the
most ssattering in the world; but no mat-
ter, it is the pencil of truth, and not of a
mercenary, who only wants to please.
We
who sometimes come and drop a tear over
their departed friends.
I am not sure if this is not a better
method of disposing of the dead than
ours. These visits mull prove admirable
lesfons of humility; and I asstire you,
they are not such objects of horror as you
would imagine : they are said, even for
ages after death, to retain a strong like-
ness to what they were when alive; so
that, as soon as you have conquered the
first feeling excited by these venerable
figures, you only consider this as a vast
gallery of original portraits, drawn after
the life, by the justest and moll unpre-
judiced hand. It mud be owned that
the colours are rather faded; and the
pencil does not appear to have been the
most ssattering in the world; but no mat-
ter, it is the pencil of truth, and not of a
mercenary, who only wants to please.
We