This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX TO THE AWFUL DISCLOSURES CONTAINING I. RECEPTION OF THE FIRST EDITIONS, n. SEQUEL TO THE NARRATIVE, m. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE WHOLE SUBJECT. APPENDIX, NO. I. RECEPTION OF THE FIRST EDITIONS. I Have now reached the close of what appeared in my first editions. Some of my readers may feel a wish ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX TO THE AWFUL DISCLOSURES CONTAINING I. RECEPTION OF THE FIRST EDITIONS, n. SEQUEL TO THE NARRATIVE, m. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE WHOLE SUBJECT. APPENDIX, NO. I. RECEPTION OF THE FIRST EDITIONS. I Have now reached the close of what appeared in my first editions. Some of my readers may feel a wish to know what has been said of me and my book, by those whose character or connexions it exposes. Different persons have expressed to me their fears that I should be kidnapped, stabbed, or poisoned; but of this I have had but little apprehension. Others may suppose that the priests of Montreal, and some of those in New York, against whom I have made different charges, may have appeared against me in ways of which they are ignorant, and have published facts, or used arguments of serious import, if not of decided force. For the information of my readers, I have determined, though at some inconvenience, to lay before them a fair view of what they have done. I was well convinced before the publication of my first book, that the priests would do or say very little against me or my work; and several persons can testify, that I made declarations of this kind, with distinctness, in their presence. The reasons I gave for this opinion were these, --that they feared an investigation, and that they feared further disclosures. They must desire to keep the public mind calm, and diverted with other matters; and to avoid j*creasing my ill-will. There were individuals, I was well aware, both in and out of the nunnery, and the Seminary, who, from the first notice of the appearance of my book, would be extremely disquieted, until they had ascertained the extent to which my developments reached. When they had read for themselves, I well knew, they would enjoy a..
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