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The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed: with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion — John Shaqi

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The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed: with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion

Name: The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed: with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion
Author: Dallas, Robert Charles

Dallas, Robert Charles

Jesuits -- Controversial Literature; Jesuits -- History

having overturned the monarchy, afterwards suppressed the democracy, and
then, substituting an apparent aristocracy, reigned for some time over
Portugal, concealed under that {xviii} cloak." This is a fine specimen of
the warfare carried on against the society. The ambassador's ignorance of
the intrigues of the Jesuits is not brought forward as a proof of their
innocence, but as a reason why we should believe Pombal. As to the
revolutionizing Portugal, and placing don Pedro on the throne, the
ambassador could have been no stranger to the real causes of don Pedro's
being proclaimed regent during the life of his brother Alonzo, from the
incapacity of the latter, and the intrigues, first of his mother, and
afterwards of his wife, the princess of Nemours.

I would here leave the reader, with this fact fresh on his mind, to enter
upon the book before him, but that I wish to detain him a moment longer to
request him to carry also along with him the asseveration {xix} of the
author, that he is entirely unconnected with the individuals of the body,
whose character it is the object of this volume to place in a just point of
view. Though familiar with accounts of the society, I am unacquainted with
a single individual of it. The interest I feel is that which has been
inspired by their virtues, and by the injustice and cruelty of their
enemies, which I have ascertained to my complete conviction.

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CONTENTS.

                                                PAGE
  INTRODUCTION                                     1

  CHAPTER I.

  _Remarks on the Objects of the Author of
  "A brief Account of the Jesuits," and
  on his mode of conducting his Argument_          5

  CHAPTER II.

  _Inquiry into the Character of the Authorities
  against the Jesuits, and of
  those in favour of them; with a notice
  of some of the Crimes imputed to
  them_                                           23

  CHAPTER III.

  _Of the Order of the Jesuits, with the
  prominent features of the Institute_           173

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  CHAPTER IV.

  _Character of Pombal. Summary Observations,
  and a brief notice of the tendency
  and danger of Education independent
  of Religion_                                   229

  THE LETTERS OF CLERICUS                        259

  APPENDIX.

  _The Bull of Clement XIII_                     335

  _The Judgment of the Bishops of France
  in favour of the Jesuits_                      346

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ERRATUM, or Omission, Page 81.

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