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. 1891 Excerpt: ...Fathers, so it is stated, on the 7th. I saw it for the first time last night in a Paris paper. This morning I have had the Latin text before me in manuscript, and also in a Turin paper. The manuscript was to be returned immediately in order to be burnt, and, no doubt, the owner would watch the ashes till not a letter ...
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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. 1891 Excerpt: ...Fathers, so it is stated, on the 7th. I saw it for the first time last night in a Paris paper. This morning I have had the Latin text before me in manuscript, and also in a Turin paper. The manuscript was to be returned immediately in order to be burnt, and, no doubt, the owner would watch the ashes till not a letter could be traced in them. I have taken a copy, and am not sure that even now the discovery of the copy would not procure my immediate expulsion. On Friday we were told that the Dogma had been sent across the frontier, and telegraphed to all the world; so that Rome was now the only place not basking in this sudden effulgence of the light divine. Egypt was in light, Goshen in darkness. Of course, there were people who had seen it, but they dismissed its purport with that brevity which is the soul of wit, and leaves little to write about. I have already intimated that the Pope has some THE ROMAN POST OFFICE 227 excuse for preferring the long range to the short range in the discharge of his artillery. Even at Florence and Turin his thunderbolts are received more respectfully than they are here. The Pope has the usual mark of a prophet--that he is not without honour save in his own country and in his father's house. Though strangers come to Rome full of devotion, the people who have seen Popes, off and on, for near 2,000 years, show rather too much of that which is bred by familiarity. So the Pope is obliged to speak over their heads and let them hear the rebound. Everybody in London last Saturday could know, if he cared, what the Princes and ' Senate' of Rome could not know, even for days after, without somebody incurring for their sake minor excommunication, and, if he did not repent of it, eternal perdition. This is the way in which Divine truth i...
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