Note 46 — LETTER XXXIX.
Reading edition
As the Parson of St. Sulpice stretches his Invention to the utmost, how to allure the Multitude, in 1734 he out-did all that he had ever done before, so that his Procession was more like the March of an Army than any thing else, because of the many Trumpets, Kettle-drums, Hunting-horns, &c. which made the Air echo with their Flourishes. It may by Degrees come to be like the Processions at Cambray, Antwerp, Brussels, and other Towns of the Netherlands; where, to the Scandal of the Christian Religion, we see the Revival of all the Impertinencies of the Pagan.