The Catholic Miscellany and Monthly Repository of Information (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...quoted the following lines: --A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not offend me, and no other can. I have been led, Mr. Editor, to these reflections by a circular address, lately put into my hands, from our Catholic Committee, proposing that we should warmly enter into their views, and endeavour to raise some small sums, which may enable them to circulate more extensively such religious tracts as may be judged best calculated to enlighten the public mind. Again I applaud their zeal, and promise my endeavours to cooperate with them. Doubtless, judgment has been used in the selection of those tracts: but if it be true, as I most confidently believe, that there is not in the kingdom a single person, high or low, friend or enemy, who knows what really are the points of Catholic belief, --it then becomes a subject of peculiar consideration, whether the tracts that hitherto have been distributed, mostly of a controversial character, are best adapted to the proposed end. Let me then suggest the plan of printing, in a better form, the children's first catechism, in its two parts of belief and practice, and during the present year, circulating that alone. But let it be the old edition, long in use, and not that lately amended by our bishops, because of this it would be said, as it has been of their excellent Declaration, that it was got up purposely to deceive the unwarv. J. K. 232 CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING THE ADMISSION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS TO SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.. By Sir John Cox Hippislcy, Baronet. 1816. In the debate on Mr. Grattan's motion, on the 31st of May, 1811, Sir John Hippisley adverted to the adoption of a qualified measure, which might tend to remove any apprehension of eventual preponderance on the side of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, should.