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and indeed all places of interment within the pre-
cincts of cities and towns were prohibited; a re-
gulation so salutary as to deserve universal adop-
tion, though it was less necessary perhaps at
Pisa, than in any other city.*
In speaking of the style of this group of edi-
fices, I have, in conformity with other travellers,
used the epithet Gothic, though, even in its usual

* A late most respectable author, who has generously de-
voted his time and his talents to the support or rather to the
restoration of religion among his countrymen, defends the
common practice with great eloquence and effect*. He had
beheld with horror the sacrilegious violation of the tomb, the
contemptuous forms of civic interment, the atheistic sentence
inscribed over the grave during the revolution, and he turn-
ed with delight to the affectionate, the decent, the consoling
rites of Christian sepulture. May these rites remain for ever!
May the song of praise, the lesson of lamentation and com-
fort, and the prayer of faith, for ever accompany the Chris-
tian to his grave ; and wherever the Faithful repose, may the
standard of hope, the pledge of immortality, the trophy of
victory, the CROSS, rise in the midst of their tombs to pro-
claim aloud that Death shall lose its sting, and that the
grave shall give up its captives.

* Mons. Chateaubriand in hjs excellent work, entitled, Geni dn
(Christianisme,. Vol. iv. p. 12.—Paris Edition, 1802»
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