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SICILY AND MALTA. 179
affairs of etiquette ; there they think it
would not be decent; but in their more
private assairs, they generally pay the com-
pliment to the saint :—Yet in their inscrip-
tions on churches and chapels, (which one
would think are public enough) when they
are dedicated to God and any particular
saint, they have often ventured to put the
name of the saint first.—Sanclo Januario,
et Deo Opt. Max. taking every opportu-
nity of raising their dignity, though at the
expence of that of God himself.
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affairs of etiquette ; there they think it
would not be decent; but in their more
private assairs, they generally pay the com-
pliment to the saint :—Yet in their inscrip-
tions on churches and chapels, (which one
would think are public enough) when they
are dedicated to God and any particular
saint, they have often ventured to put the
name of the saint first.—Sanclo Januario,
et Deo Opt. Max. taking every opportu-
nity of raising their dignity, though at the
expence of that of God himself.
N 2