This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... There is a work in which the praise of Christianity is celebrated from the mouth of Rousseau, who is condemned to become the apologist of a religion he spurned. A somewhat similar character we impose upon the reluctant Father Theiner, in transforming him into the apologist of the Society of Jesus. 3. It is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... There is a work in which the praise of Christianity is celebrated from the mouth of Rousseau, who is condemned to become the apologist of a religion he spurned. A somewhat similar character we impose upon the reluctant Father Theiner, in transforming him into the apologist of the Society of Jesus. 3. It is objected that Frederick, King of Prussia, who had entertained a high opinion of the Jesuits, on the occasion of his visit to Silesia (where, we have just been informed, by their labors, education had retained its primitive excellence), was not a little astonished at finding in the Universities and Colleges (which, as we have just seen, were the pride and ornament of the province), even in the celebrated University of Breslau, men of a surprising mediocrity, and on that account required, that capable professors should be procured from the French and Italian provinces. We indeed know that Frederick II, after the suppression, charged the Jesuits of Silesia to invite their brethren of the other provinces to participate in his hospitality, assigning to each a pension of seven hundred florins; but in that royal act, we discover nothing more than a deed of charity towards the proscribed, or an act of policy, inasmuch as they would be useful to his subjects; but nowhere have we found that this invitation addressed to foreign Jesuits was prompted by a knowledge of the deficiencies of the Silesian Jesuits. Without doubt the latter were possessed of less literary taste than their brethren of France and Italy, and of this we have seen some testimony in the book of the Franciscan Prochaska, where he accuses the Jesuits of Bohemia and Moravia (perhaps the same fault is imputable to those of Silesia), of inculcating a false taste and a declamatory style of...
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Fair. Fair; Contents are tight and clean; about an inch of the front of the spine missing at top; corners are worn; Ex-Library; Hard Cover; John Murphy & Co.; 1855; 0.
