The Jesuits: Their Foundation and History

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Pagina 144 - The history of their labors is connected with the origin of every celebrated town in the annals of French America : not a cape was turned, nor a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way.
Pagina 109 - He seemed insensible to every thing, but the promotion of science and religion: he abstained from idle visits, the reading of curious books, and even the perusal of European newspapers; while he incessantly employed himself, either in mathematical calculations, in instructing proselytes, in corresponding with the grandees of the empire on the interests of the mission, or in writing to the learned of Europe, inviting them to repair to China. His private papers are indicative of the depth of his devotion,...
Pagina 35 - But it is in the new world that the Jesuits have exhibited the most wonderful display of their abilities, and have contributed most effectually to the benefit of the human species. The conquerors of that unfortunate quarter of the globe acted at first as if they had nothing in view, but to plunder, to enslave, and to exterminate its inhabitants. The Jesuits alone made humanity the object of their settling there.
Pagina 75 - Can you be brought to the bar and hear yourselves falsely sworn against ? Can you patiently receive the sentence of an unjust judge condemning you to a painful and ignominious death — to be hanged, drawn, and quartered ?
Pagina 73 - ... to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and to receive the sacrament...
Pagina 147 - Robe disdained even to look at them. He spoke to me at once of the Great Spirit, of Paradise, of Hell, and of the prayer which is the only path to Heaven.
Pagina 149 - Franciscans," observes Sir George Simpson, " had covered the sterile rocks of Lower California with the monuments, agricultural, architectural, and economical, of their patience and .aptitude; not only leaving to their successors apposite models and tolerable workmen, but also bequeathing to them the invaluable lesson, that nothing was impossible to energy and perseverance.
Pagina 144 - England, more than one man whose youth had been passed amongst the warm valleys of Languedoc, had explored the wilds of Wisconsin, and caused the hymn of Catholic praise to rise from the prairies of Illinois. The Catholic priest went even before the soldier and the trader; from lake to lake, from river to river, the Jesuits pressed on unresting, and with a power that no other Christians have exhibited, won to their faith the warlike Miamis and the luxurious Illinois.
Pagina 258 - They had been the protectors of a persecuted race, the advocates of mercy, the founders of civilization, and their patience under their unmerited sufferings forms not the least honourable trait in their character.
Pagina 130 - John, the third in age of this company of royal confessors, wrote thus from his place of exile in Tartary to his friend and director, Father Parennin : " What we now desire, and what you must beg of God for us, is, that by the help of His grace we may correct our faults, practise virtue, conform ourselves to His holy will, and persevere to the end in His holy service. This is the only object of our desires ; the rest we count for nothing.

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