"An epitomist of Church History has a task of no ordinary greatness.... He must combine the rich faculties of condensation and analysis, of judgment in the selection of materials, and calmness in the expression of opinions, with that most excellent gift of faith, so especially precious to Church historians, which implies a love for the Catholic cause, a reverence for its saintly champions, an abhorrence of the misdeeds which have defiled it, and a confidence that its 'truth is great, and will prevail.'
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THE GREAT EXHIBITION and LONDON in 1851 review by DR. LARDNER, &c.
"An instructive and varied memento of the Great Exhibition."—Spectator.
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