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Rh and I am peruaded, that the bare Sight of thoe glorious Monuments has fir'd more than one Breat, and been the Occaion of their becoming great Men.

Englih have even been reproach'd with paying too extravagant Honours to mere Merit, and cenured for interring the celebrated Actres Mrs. Oldfield in Wetminter-Abbey, with almot the ame Pomp as Sir Ifaac Newton. Some pretend that the Englih had paid her thefe great Funeral Honours, purpoely to make us more trongly enible of the Barbarity and Injutice which they object to us, for having buried Mademoielle le Couvreur ignominiouly in the Fields.

be aur'd from me, that the Englih were prompted by no other Principle, in burying Mrs. Oldfield in Wetminter-Abbey, than their good Sene. They are far from being o ridiculous as to brand with Infamy an Art which has immortaliz'd an Euripides and a Sophocles; or to exclude from the Body of their Citizens a Sett of People Rh