THE LITERARY POLICY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME EXHIBITED, IN AN ACCOUNT OF HER DAMNATORY CATALOGUES OR INDEXES, BOTH PROHIBITORY AND EXPURGATORY. WITH VARIOUS ILLUSTRATIVE EXTRACTS, ANECDOTES, AND REMARKS. BY THE REV. JOSEPH MENDHAM, M. A. Neque in ipsos modo auctores, sed in libros quoque eorum sævitum, delegato trium- SECOND EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. LONDON: JAMES DUNCAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. MDCCCXXX. Destituimur adhuc in Republica literaria. 1.) Historia librorum prohi- Bib. Hist. Lit. Crit. &c., hoc est Catalogi Bibliothecæ Reimmannianæ London: Printed by W. CLOWES, Stamford-street. I AM unwilling to lose the opportunity which the second enlarged, and, I trust, improved, edition, of the present work affords me, of congratulating, not only yourself, but the nation at large, on your early restoration to the legislative post, in the first occupation of which you discharged its high duties with so much honour to yourself and so much satisfaction to your country. The first act of resumption has, indeed, been thrown into a shade by the splendid circumstances which produced, and which accompany the second. The University of Oxford, which, on the eve of a noble revolution, exhibited a bright example of highprincipled and intrepid resistance to a tyrannical invasion of the civil and religious liberty of the country, in one of its most sacred recesses, has even in the inglo rious year just passed, and in a contest strikingly analogous, maintained its claim to the same uncorrupt and incorruptible attachment, both to the pure religion of the Reformation and to the manly freedom of the Revolution. it reap Of the triumph obtained in this important and honourable conflict, both yourself and those who have achieved the fruits-You, in becoming the representative of one of the most illustrious seats of learning, in a nation, which may have a rival, but has no superior, in the civilized world-They, in the services, which a merciful and omnipotent Providence may still place it within the reach of consistent integrity and eminent ability to accomplish. |