Authentic memoirs concerning the Portuguese Inquisition, never before published : with remarks on the infamous character given of the British nation, by a late apologist for that horrid tribunal. Also, reflections on ancient and modern popery, and the causes of its present alarming progress in this kingdom. To which are added, several striking facts relating to the Portuguese Jesuits, and the conduct of the court of Rome ; with a recent instance of the execrable practices of their brethern in England, wherein is shewn the tendency of Jesuitism to promote universal corruption of manners. In a series of letters to a friend.
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| Language: | English |
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London,
Printed for W. Sandby,
M.DCC.LXI. [1761]
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| Item Description: | The work (written in part by Archibald Bower?)--includes an answer to the author of a pamphlet entitled Second part of the Satyrical review of the manifold falsities and absurdities hitherto published, concerning the earthquake at Lisbon, who is here identified as Bl-the (i. e. Francis Blyth?) Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. Additions, 1963. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 528 pages ; 21 cm |