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POPERY. Advantages of TOLERATION.
Ledger for 29 May 1772 - Irish debates.

24th

1st We should ourselves superintend their education, instead of sending them to have it it
that over superintended of our enemies.

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2. All the Sums which are sent out for that purpose, which certainly are not small
would circulate at home.

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3. We should by this means have the opportunity of with their studies; such
books as, tho' they do not strike d considerably against their superstitions; & therefore would
not be refuted, since they are read permitted even in countries where these superstitions remain
would not fail universally to undermine them, in consequence of their tendency to
the mind. Such for instance are Locke's Essay and treatise on Government.
Que whether this is permitted
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4. By having their flaws of Divine Service under our inspection, without depriving them
of any of their spiritual formation, we might yet keep their love of these gaudy trappings
& which attached the eye, & have operated toward the of
mind & warm imagination more powerfully than arguments when arguments would not have
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Every expedient by which their interest to be great is augmented, whether their
importance is either or of concern, is an additional security.
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On these principles was it judged (and
So our enemies — How much stronger is the
for as by our watcher found & follow
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I would pray those to consider, who entertain so high a notion of this along which
of the influence of their superstition religious influence on of that of the amor patriae
omnium complectatur, who were the men to whom we owe the foundation
and the transmission for so many ages of the liberties we now enjoy? Were they
not Catholics — Catholics ignorant and barbarous, when the rough spirit of the
superstition was as yet untinctured with that politeness which has soften'd it
& more even when it is dominant & unconfronted.
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An wonder related by an wondrous French Traveller is so applicable to this
that cannot resist the propensity to transcribe it.
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If then the affection attachment to the mother Country has can have such mighty power as the dedication
of near a Century against in promise above and of of the and heard not the only but
in finding one to hand of
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