Excerpt from Voyages to Portugal, Spain, Sicily, Malta, Asia-Minor, Egypt, &C: From 1796 to 1801, With an Historical Sketch, Notes, and Reflections The men, who are so fond of employing terms of reproach to designate those who think that religion is something more than a mere matter of speculation, seem to have forgotten that the first and most indispen sible requisite in religion is seriousness; and that levity in conversation upon religious topics, or sneering at those who are in earnest whenever such topics arejintroduced, has a very prejudical effect upon those who indulge in such practices. Of such you may call the attention to the sentiments of a late venerable moralist and divine, as exhibited in the passage below.1' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.