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    thelearned in Germany , Holland , &c , as a similar deficiency is beyond question in England , and vice versa . The English language , however , is yet more known here and there on the Continent to a few learned and eminent divines , and

    more particularly to the connoisseurs in modern literature , than the authors of the Continent to the inhabitants of the British Isles . Voltaire , Rousseau , and La Fontaine ; Montesquieu , Mably , and

    Raynal ; Lavoisier , Chaptal , and Fourcroy ; Winckelinan , Klopstock , Rabener , Gellert , Haller ,

    Gesner , and Schiller , are known to many in England , who never heard or scarce are acquainted with the names of Werdenhagen , Thomasius , Boehmer , Semler , Bock , with a host of other writers . The latter wrote almost

    either in Latin or German ; were , pretty generally , voluminous writers , who often did not , often could not , embellish their productions , and recommend them to foreigners , by a superior elegance of style . Sennebier may sustain a

    respectable character as an historian , in what regards the general concerns of his darling city ; but his being an elegant writer , or his

    being a Genevois , does , certainly , not give him a claim to infallibility—is no presumption for his impartiality . It is trt * £ , the

    sprightlmess , vivacity , acu ^ eness , and ingenuity of the inhabitants of this elegant seat of arts and sciences , ( the beloved temporary residence of wealthy Britons , before it was polluted by the French Revolutioi ^) are acknowledged by all foreigners ; and the malignant pun , Genevois ! Je ne vois rien de

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    bcm ^ quand je te vois , thongfj from the mouth of a native of Geneva , must be considered rather the ebullition of disappointed mo . rosity than truth . However , " that Sennebier was there on the spot , and could obtain access to the best materials for his history , " as

    noured him with a statue , if it had been in his power , no matter through what means , to havtf ob . [ iterated an event , mourned by every Genevois of our days . This consideration applies with greater strength to the period in which Sennebier wrote , than if he

    you observed , proves nothing indeed , if he did not condescend to use them . There was no danger for Sennebier , that any errors or misrepresentations , if artfully executed , would be detected ; or , if

    detected , discovered by his fellowcitizens , who rather would have crowned him with oak , and

    hohad written fifty or a hundred years before . I need not to inform you , Sir , that the citizens of Geneva could not bearpatiently the insinuations , that religious persecution had fixed her seat for a long while in their city ; that the elegant writers among them left nothing untried to colour this foul blot ; that , long since , th « rigour of Calvin ' s tenets had been there mollified , according to som 6 well-intentioned , well-informed , and liberal-minded , even to ex * cess ; that the jencyclopaidistic apostles of infidelity , with their usual unfairness and malice , when

    Tevelation can be attacked , obliquely branded Geneva ' s reformed divines as Arminians , Soeinians , &c . with such success , that the candidates of the French

    Reformed churches , in the ci-devant United Provinces , were sent ifl

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    ICS Sketch of tne Life of Servetus .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/2/