![]() ![]() Yet were all ancient Roman to revisit this globe, and make a tour to Paris, I have no doubt but he would with great justice affirm that the French were very little improved since his own days that their customs, their dress, their luxuries, were barbarous au dernier point. If any one said that most of the European kingdoms had not yet emerged from barbarity, nay, that the most polished of them are yet but barbarcus, every beau of the aera of George I. ![]() We give it to the Chinese: the Chinese with equal propriety to us.īARBARISM, like every other human acci∣dent and quality, must be allowed to be merely comparative. IN the first place, what do you call a barba∣rous age, or country? To what period of society may this denomination be properly limited? The Greeks gave this denomination to the Persians tho the latter were arrived at more refinement of manners than themselves. ![]() I shall only beg leave to lay before you a few remarks, which may not perhaps have offered themselves to your enquiries. TO examine this matter thoroughly might employ much philosophical research. YOU ask me by what means it comes to pass that a rude poetical production of a barbarous age always affects, and pleases, the heart more than the most finished and artificial effort of a refined composer? ![]()
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