Letters, During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, And the ...
Letters, During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, And the ...
Thomas Raffles
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16% 9EVEVA. LETTER XIX. Marti gny. Jfy PEAR *■ Jt often happens that where we expect the greatest gratification we enjoy the least. I have felt the force of this reflection in my visit to Geneva. The shortness of our stay did not allow us, indeed, to see any of its society ; and the information I had previously obtained of the state of religion was not such as to excite in my mind very exalted expecta- tions of pleasure from that source. Few of the doctrines, and little of the spirit, which onc...e render- ed it the glory of the Protestant world, now re- main : and that truth, which was asserted and main- tained by Calvin, a name to which the city of Ge- neva is more indebted for its celebrity than to the grandeur of its scenery, the beauties of its lake, ?r the stern character of its ancient independence, has scarcely an asylum within its walls.? The pastors * What was the state of things in this respect, in Voltaire's time, may be pretty correctly gathered from the friendship that subsisted between that arch-infidel and the pastors of Geneva.
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