Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 6 (of 6) 40/75 "Tell me in what measure." "I do not know," was the reply. Since the measure cannot be prescribed, it must be ample enough. There is no difficulty as regards other articles .-- On every occasion the Paris offices take care to furnish each bishop with a ready-made draft of his forthcoming pastoral letter--the canvas on which the customary flowers of ecclesiastical amplification are to be embroidered. It differs according to time and place. In La Vendee and in the west, the prelates are to stigmatize "the odious machinations of perfidious Albion," and explain to the faithful the persecutions to which the English subject the Irish Catholics. |