The Jesuits: Translated From the French of Paul Féval (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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For, in truth, is it not something amusing to behold an honest man, at a comparatively late hour of his life, wallowing in the mire of hypocrisy?

I calculate on this, and I hasten to take advantage of it, striking the iron while it is hot.

This book, at least if the execution be not below the first idea,' will be but the sketch of my great pict ure, The General History of the Jesuits, which I will achieve, if God grants me strength and life.

I desire to fix in advance the principal lines, and to determine the perspectives.

It will form but the bare outline, or, to speak liter ally, a brief synopsis, since it will occupy but one volume, but affording such a view of the whole as, I hope, will bring into prominence certain principal facts which form the special theme of calumniators, and which have grown, as it were, into the legend of calumny.

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