History of the Inquisition. By Llorente.
The Beast with Seven Heads; or, the Apocalyptical Warning.
No Truce with the Vatican.
The True Cause of Irish Disaffection.
Decline of the Latin Nations.
Anglo-Saxons the Chosen Race, and their connexion with the Ten Lost Tribes: with a map.
Finally, a very large book at the bottom of the case called Giant Pope.
And it was no use asking for the money back or protesting. Mr Fingle was an honest, straightforward man, who said a plain thing in a plain way. They had left him to choose a suitable collection of books on Catholicism, and he had chosen the best he knew. And thus did Mr Hard (who has recently given a hideous font to the new Catholic church at Bismarckville) learn the importance of estimating what words connote.
LECTOR. But all that does not excuse an intolerable prolixity?
AUCTOR. Neither did I say it did, dear Lector. My object was merely to get you to San Lorenzo where I bought that wine, and where, going out of the gate on the south, I saw suddenly the wide lake of Bolsena all below.