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Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)

CHAPTER VI
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A hundred stiff and silent women walk round and round an orchestra that is set up in the middle.

The Baron compares these circuits to the seven processions of the Egyptians round the tomb of Osiris.

A charming _mot_ of my good friend Garrick, is that London is good for the English, but Paris is good for all the world....

There is a great mania for conversions and missionaries.

Mr.
Hume told me a story which will let you know what to think of these pretended conversions of cannibals and Hurons.


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