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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GUY FAUX A Veey ingenious and subtle writer, f whom there is good reason for suspecting to be an ex-Jesuit, not unknown at Douay some five and twenty years since (he will not obtrude himself at M th again in a hurry), about a twelvemonth back set himself to prove the character of the Powder-Plot conspirators to have been that of heroic self-devotedness and true Christian martyrdom. Under the mask of Protestant candor, he actually gained admission for his treatise into a London weekly paper J not particularly distinguished for its zeal towards either religion. But, admitting Catholic principles, his arguments are shrewd and incontrovertible. He says, ? Guy Faux was a fanatic; but he was no hypocrite. He ranks among good haters. He was cruel, bloody- minded, reckless of all considerations but those of an infuriated and bigoted faith; but he was a true son of the Catholic Church, a martyr, and a confessor, for all that. He who can prevail upon himself to devote his life for a cause, however we may condemn his opinions or abhor his actions, vouches at least for the honesty of his principles and the disinterestedness of his motives. He may be guilty of the worst practices; but he is capable of the greatest. He is no longer a slave, but free.The contempt of death is the beginning of virtue. The hero of the Gunpowder Plot was, if you will, a fool, a madman, an assassin; call him what names you please: still he was neither knave nor coward. He did not propose to blow up the parliament, and come off, scot- free, himself: he showed that he valued his own life no more than theirs in such a cause, where the integrity of the Catholic faith and the salvation of perhaps millions of souls was at stake. He did not call it a murder, but a sacrifice, which he was about to achieve: ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217467391 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217467393 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $19.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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