IETY OF JESUS, FROM Foundation to the Present Time. TED FROM THE FRENCH OF J. M. S. DAURIGNAC, prevala BY JAMES CLEMENTS, AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL." VOLUME İ. CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. WALSH, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year BY JOHN P. WALSH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United Southern District of Ohio. STEREOTYPED AT THE CINCINNATI, 0. e has heard of the Jesuits: throughout the whole rld they are either hated or beloved. No one de; to no intelligent man is the society an object of fference. To some it is inexpressibly odious; in it begets tender reverence and affectionate grati its are talked of by many; they are known by few. hitherto, been easy for those not brought into actual h them to know them as they are. The history of -, by Crétineau Joly, has been before the world for =; but, independently of its great length, which deeneral reader from attempting it, it is a sealed book ny who are not familiar with the language of its au anslator of the more popular sketch, recently pubFrance, by M. Daurignac, has thought that, by this work to the public in an English dress, he supplying a void in our literature, and rendering a kely to be appreciated by that large class who are inn the history of our modern civilization, and who desuch information as they possess should be derived hentic sources, and be reliable and precise, so far as it is supposed that a natural curiosity may well exist to mething of a society of which so much is said; whose aries, theologians, philosophers, orators; whose stuad writers in every department of literature and science; saints and whose sages have, for three centuries, been st in the palaces of kings and the hovels of the poor, in of the prisoner and in the trackless forests of a newlyered world, in the council chambers of statesmen and in have made themselves all things to all men, in all means they might gain to Christ a few-thei the maxim of their great founder, "FOR THE GR OF GOD." Their founder, a man of the world and a soldi age so full of the vanities of the world, that he c surgeon to inflict upon him repeated and agonizin the hope of avoiding thereby a trifling disfigureme rant of Christian morals, that he was saved, app mere accident, from committing murder to avenge his faith; so illiterate that he had never had the mar in his hand-renounced in an instant, utter ever, the world which he had so much loved, spiritual father of theologians, the momentum of drove back the hosts of error, thereby staying the atheism, and hemming in the torrents of heresy, within the bounds which it occupied when the formed, and beyond which it has not, to this d and, finally, stood forth the father of the most le most distinguished literary corporation that the wor seen. Of this wonderful society, what is thought by th those who visit it with their groundless dislike, may be summed up in the definition of the word "Jes by Noah Webster, a man whose definitions are seld ively erroneous, and who has certainly not gone ally out of his way to attack, under cover of ex He says that a Jesuit is, "1st, one of the Society so called a society remarkable for their cunning gating their principles; 2d, a crafty person, an i And we believe Dr. Webster to have been in sim faith in giving that definition. He was a learned m |