and I am perſuaded, that the bare Sight of thoſe glorious Monuments has fir'd more than one Breaſt, and been the Occaſion of their becoming great Men.
The Engliſh have even been reproach'd with paying too extravagant Honours to mere Merit, and cenſured for interring the celebrated Actreſs Mrs. Oldfield in Weſtminſter-Abbey, with almoſt the ſame Pomp as Sir Iſfaac Newton. Some pretend that the Engliſh had paid her theſfe great Funeral Honours, purpoſely to make us more ſtrongly ſenſible of the Barbarity and Injuſtice which they object to us, for having buried Mademoiſelle le Couvreur ignominiouſly in the Fields.
But be aſſur'd from me, that the Engliſh were prompted by no other Principle, in burying Mrs. Oldfield in Weſtminſter-Abbey, than their good Senſe. They are far from being ſo ridiculous as to brand with Infamy an Art which has immortaliz'd an Euripides and a Sophocles; or to exclude from the Body of their Citizens a Sett of People
