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hopes of reviving their literary inter-
course.
He is a tall, strong built man, up-
wards of sixty, of a very agreeable ad-
dress. He was refused admission into
the French academy, when at Paris,
though a member, by the parliament,
on account of his being a Jesuit; but if
all Jesuits were like this father, making
use only of superior learning and intel-
lects for the advancement of science, and
the happiness of mankind, one would
have wished this society to be as durable
as the world. As it is, it seems as if
equity required that some discrimination
should be made in condemning the Je-
suits; for though good policy may re-
quire a dissolution of their order, yet hu-
manity certainly makes one wish to pre-
serve the old, the infirm, and the inno-
cent, from the general wreck and destruc-
tion due only to the guilty.
The second opera which I heard here
was La Lavandara Astuta, a Pasticcio,
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