What masking, what mumming, what carding, what dicing, what gluttony, what drunkenneſs, what chambering, what wontonneſs, what turning nights into days, and days into nights! This Feaſt [i.e., Christmas] was occaſioned by thoſe most licentious Saturnalians, and they have indeed for many years become very like them, only worſe, and that not only by connivance of Authority; […]
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Noëmus vino ſuccubuit ſemel, ejus vires fortè nondum expertus. Saturnalibus more receptum erat, multo mero ſe ingurgitare: & ebrietati Saturnus præerat.
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This was a tenet of the antient hereticks; this branch of the myſtery of iniquity ſoon began to operate among them, and was held by them; by the Ebionites, who, as Epiphanius [of Salamis] ſays, magnified virginity, and by the Saturnalians, who ſaid, to marry and beget children was of the devil; […]
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No matter whether it is the women of Tammuz drying their eyes after weeping for Adonis, or east side children snatching oranges off a settlement Christmas tree, they have all echoed a universal, recurrent, perennial thrill—the thrill of a world glad again and of people glad together. And saying it together has brought good will to men. The Saturnalians made all men equal. The Provencals killed all enmities over their Yule Log. Peace on Earth was said in Rome when the gates of war were shut at the turn of every year.
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