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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. 1916 Excerpt: ...thought that their own superiority and the inferiority of Catholics were sufficient causes for the discrimination. It is likewise possible they may have assumed that Catholics recognized the superiority of non-Catholics, and the inferiority of Catholics, and accepted the state of affairs as a matter of course. But perhaps if one who knew the great Catholic body of those days as intimately as Mrs. Pennell knew the exclusive nonCatholic set, it might be discovered that the lowly Catholics of the 'seventies and 'eighties were not overwhelmed by the impressive dignity of those who prided themselves upon a colonial ancestry and a fashionable religious creed. If a criticism were in order about a book that will richly repay careful reading, it would be that perhaps the shock which Mr. Pennell and Mrs. Pennell experienced when they saw the changes in their beloved home city, may have prevented them from seeing clearly the actual truth and interpreting accurately the significance of what happened in their twenty-five years absence. It should he said that the book is printed in the admirable style that characterizes the publications of the Lippin cotts. P. R. Mcdevitt. 1 P. aoj. THE RIGHT KFV. PHILIP R. McDEVITT BiFhop.KIect of Harrisburg, Pa. Twice President of American Catholic Historical Society Records Of The American Catholic Historical Society Vol. XXVII Smtembkr, 1916 No. 3 THE CAPUCHINS IN ACADIA AND NORTHERN MAINE (1632-1655) REV. JOHN LENHART, 0. M. Cap. In the earliest period of American history, the name Acadia designated a territory of uncertain extent. Its limits were never exactly defined, but during the seventeenth century it denoted that part of North America lying southeast of the River St. Lawrence, comprising the present provinces of New Brunswick...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151809705
- ISBN 13 9781151809704
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages122
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