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time . ' I see , ' says Henry , ' there are those here , to whom the conversation I have had has been more tedious than it has been to me ; but for their consolation , I will tell you all , that I love Rosnv more than ever . And you , my friend , ' continued he ( turning towards Sully ) ' continue to love , and serve me as you have always done . '
EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUE , ESQ . TPIIS gentleman was one of the most singular characters that hath lately appeared in the world . The following anecdotes of him are translated from the French of Count Maximilian Lamberg ; and are , we believe , very little known . After a great variety of changes in his religion , he thusin a letter ,
, addressed Mr . Lami ( we believe the learned Father Lami ) of Florence . ' I have been making some trials thafhave not a little contributed to the improvement of my organic system . I have conversed with the nobles in Germany , and served my apprenticeship in the science of horsemanship at their country-seats . I have been a labourer in the fields of Switzerland and Holland , and have not
disdained the humble professions of postilion and ploughman—I assumed , at Paris , the ridiculous character of a pdit-maitre—I was an abbe at Rome—I put on , at Hamburgh , the Lutheran ruff , and , with a triple chin and a formal countenance , 1 dealt about me the word of God , so as to excite the envy of the clergy—I acted successfully all the parts that Fielding has described in his Julian—My fate was similar
to that of a guinea , which at one time is in the hands of a Oueen , and at another is in the fob of a greasy Israelite . * From the Protestant religion'Mr . Montague ( says Count Lamberg ) went over to the faith of Rome , and from thence deserted to the most
rigorous observation and profession of Mahometamsm . He used always to seal his letters with three Arabian signets , which had sentences of the Koran engraven on them . Count Lamberg , who saw Mr . Montague at Venice , described his manner of living there in the following terms , ( which were written before the death of that singular man was known in other countries ) : — ' Pie rises before the sun , says his prayers , and performs his ablutions and Iazzis according to the
Mahometan ritual . An hour after , he awakes his pupil , a filthy emigrant of the parched Abyssinia , whom he brought with him from Rosetta , in Egypt . He instructs this dirty Negroe with all the care and precision of a philosopher , both by precept and example : belays before him the strongest proofs ( as they appear to him ) of the religion he teaches him , and he catechizes him in the Arabian
language . The Moor listens to him with the most striking marks of a profound and respectful attention all the time that he is employed in these lessons . That he may not omit any particular , in the most rigorous observance of the' Mahometan rites , Mr . Montague dines at a low table , sitting cross-legged on a sopha ; whiie the Moor , on a cushion still lower , sits gaping with avidity for his master ' s leavings . It is this Negro who supports the white mantle that makes a part of the Turkish garb of his master , who is always preceded , even at noon-day , by two gondoliers , with lighted torches in their hands . —
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Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
time . ' I see , ' says Henry , ' there are those here , to whom the conversation I have had has been more tedious than it has been to me ; but for their consolation , I will tell you all , that I love Rosnv more than ever . And you , my friend , ' continued he ( turning towards Sully ) ' continue to love , and serve me as you have always done . '
EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUE , ESQ . TPIIS gentleman was one of the most singular characters that hath lately appeared in the world . The following anecdotes of him are translated from the French of Count Maximilian Lamberg ; and are , we believe , very little known . After a great variety of changes in his religion , he thusin a letter ,
, addressed Mr . Lami ( we believe the learned Father Lami ) of Florence . ' I have been making some trials thafhave not a little contributed to the improvement of my organic system . I have conversed with the nobles in Germany , and served my apprenticeship in the science of horsemanship at their country-seats . I have been a labourer in the fields of Switzerland and Holland , and have not
disdained the humble professions of postilion and ploughman—I assumed , at Paris , the ridiculous character of a pdit-maitre—I was an abbe at Rome—I put on , at Hamburgh , the Lutheran ruff , and , with a triple chin and a formal countenance , 1 dealt about me the word of God , so as to excite the envy of the clergy—I acted successfully all the parts that Fielding has described in his Julian—My fate was similar
to that of a guinea , which at one time is in the hands of a Oueen , and at another is in the fob of a greasy Israelite . * From the Protestant religion'Mr . Montague ( says Count Lamberg ) went over to the faith of Rome , and from thence deserted to the most
rigorous observation and profession of Mahometamsm . He used always to seal his letters with three Arabian signets , which had sentences of the Koran engraven on them . Count Lamberg , who saw Mr . Montague at Venice , described his manner of living there in the following terms , ( which were written before the death of that singular man was known in other countries ) : — ' Pie rises before the sun , says his prayers , and performs his ablutions and Iazzis according to the
Mahometan ritual . An hour after , he awakes his pupil , a filthy emigrant of the parched Abyssinia , whom he brought with him from Rosetta , in Egypt . He instructs this dirty Negroe with all the care and precision of a philosopher , both by precept and example : belays before him the strongest proofs ( as they appear to him ) of the religion he teaches him , and he catechizes him in the Arabian
language . The Moor listens to him with the most striking marks of a profound and respectful attention all the time that he is employed in these lessons . That he may not omit any particular , in the most rigorous observance of the' Mahometan rites , Mr . Montague dines at a low table , sitting cross-legged on a sopha ; whiie the Moor , on a cushion still lower , sits gaping with avidity for his master ' s leavings . It is this Negro who supports the white mantle that makes a part of the Turkish garb of his master , who is always preceded , even at noon-day , by two gondoliers , with lighted torches in their hands . —