The Rational Amusement: Comprehending a Collection of Letters On a Great Variety of Subjects ...
The Rational Amusement: Comprehending a Collection of Letters On a Great Variety of Subjects ...
Campbell John
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The greateft Part of their Performances wert Qdes^ Dialogues, or Elegies, with fome hiftorical Poems of confiderable length. Some of all thefe are ftill remaining, and we might have had many more, but that fome zealous Divines, who had the charge of converting this Nation toChriftianity, hearing 1 The Rational AMusEMENt. i§i h^^ring fuch ftrange Things reported of Verfes Vrote in the Runick Charafter, and perceiving how fond the People were' of theni, and 'how tfanfported at hearing any of thel...e Poems re- peated, they immediately conceiv'd, that there was fomething of Witchcraft both in their Words and in their Letters, and gave Quarter therefore to neither, niaking it a Point of Religion to de- ftroy all the Remains of Antiquity they could rtieet with. How far this was really requifite, in order to the firft Eftablilhment of Chnftianity, it is at this Diftance of Time impoflible to fay; but this I think, I may venture to remark,^ that nothing but a real Neceffity could juftify fuch a Behaviour, of which this inconteftible Fad how- ever, is no great Sign, wz.
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