[181] Pitzipios, Part ii. pp. 55, 56, 57.
[182] Ibid., l. c. pp. 59, 60.
[183] Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. lxviii.
[184] Memoir, Letters, and Journal of Elizabeth Seton. Edited by Right Rev. Robert Seton, D.D., Prothonotary Apostolic. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 322, 311. P. O'Shea. 1869.
Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton. By Charles I. White, D.D. 12mo, pp. 462. John Murphy & Co. 1853.
[185] We make the word from the name the Jesuit fathers gave to their establishments in Paraguay. They called them Reductions.
[186] This barbarous conduct of the Russian government has been once equalled and even surpassed. We allude to the laws by which England, after she had been enlightened by the Reformation, prohibited all education among the Irish people. We wish to call most particular attention to the fact that in both cases distinctively Catholic nations have struggled earnestly for the right of instruction which bitterly anti-Catholic ones have withheld. Yet we are daily told that Catholicity is the great foe, and anti-Catholicity the great fosterer of popular education!—Ed. Cath. World.
[187] W. B. MacCabe, Memoir of O'Connell. Madden's Penal Laws, p. 255.
[188] MacCabe, Memoir of O'Connell. Tablet, 29th May, 1847.
[189] This anecdote was related to the writer by the Bishop of Southwark.