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A TOUR OF INQUIRY

THROUGH

FRANCE AND ITALY.

VOL. I.

A TOUR OF INQUIRY

THROUGH

FRANCE AND ITALY,

ILLUSTRATING

THEIR PRESENT SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND
RELIGIOUS CONDITION.

BY EDMUND SPENCER, ESQ.,

AUTHOR OF

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TRAVELS IN EUROPEAN TURKEY,' TRAVELS IN CIRCASSIA," &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,

SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1853.

LONDON:

Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

PREFACE.

"BOAST not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." How peculiarly applicable are these inspired words to the political events of our day. A new era has dawned on the world, a spirit of innovation-or rather let us say of social and religious improvement-has arisen, and it were as vain to attempt to arrest its progress, as to reverse the order of the seasons.

Unhappily, however, for mankind, systems

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