id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _003078115 Macdonald, John L. The Catholic pages of American history : a lecture 1891 .txt text/plain 14247 532 62 He is a regular attendant at St. Mathew's Church, and he can be seen in his pew there, at divine service on every day that a practical Catholic should, if possible, and on many other days. BUT A REPETITION OF HISTORY, and a reflex of the love of liberty exhibited by Oatho- lics in other portions of the world; to prove which, I have but to quote from that celebrated traveler, and staunch Protestant, Bay~rd Taylor, who, in writing upon this point, during the know-nothing excitement, said: Truth compels us to add, that the oldest repuhlic now existing is that of San Marino, not only Catholic but wholly surrounded by the especial dominions of the Popes, who might have crushed it like an egg-shell at any time, these last thousand years-but they didn't. cache/_003078115.txt txt/_003078115.txt