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Excerpt from The Eve of Catholic Emancipation, Vol. 1 of 3: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century It may perhaps be thought that some apology is required for undertaking so ambitious a work as what is practically a history of English Catholics during an important and even critical epoch, on the part of one who has already a fair amount of practical work to occupy him, and who cannot...

Excerpt from History of St. Edmund's College: Old Hall It is much to be wished that some one would have taken in hand the work of writing a history of St. Edmund's College, whose literary and other qualifications would have fitted him for the task better than my own. I can only hope that what is wanting from a literary point of view may be made up for by the intrinsic interest of much of the material, and by the care and trouble which have be...

Excerpt from The Eve of Catholic Emancipation, Vol. 2 of 3: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century, 1812-1820 Soon after this, Parliament was somewhat unexpectedly dissolved, to test the feelings of the constituencies. The elec tion took place in the autumn, and resulted in a strengthening of the Government's position: but the House of Commons remained pledged to consider the Catholi...

Excerpt from The Priestly Vocation: A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular ClergyThe aim of the following pages is to present well-known ideals and principles of action, and to apply them to the state Of things actually existing among the secular Clergy of this country. They contain the substance of Conferences originally addressed to Semin arists, which are now amended so as to be applicable to a wider circle.From the natur...

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Excerpt from The Eve of Catholic Emancipation, Vol. 3 of 3: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century, 1820-1829 Early in the year 1817, the Rev. Paul Macpherson resigned the agency of the English bishops. He had found the work heavy, and was himself becoming an old man. He had also had some differences with Dr. Poynter during the latter's Visit to Rome, as we have seen, while on the ot...

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