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 fortune to any jeopardy, by the payment of a visit of ceremony to a simple acquaintance.

In whatever province Roman policy may be employed, this is its character, and such is its course.

I am at present concerned with it only as it has respect to Literature — Literature in particular, as embracing Theology and Science. It will appear why I instance the last. And in this province it will be seen, that the Church, impudently claiming inerrancy and supremacy, and the more regardless of religious and moral restraint, in consequence of that very claim, vindicates to her policy the entire of her selfchartered liberty. The province to which my view is now confined is still more limited. Papal policy takes its unimpeded range over the whole territory of letters, and plays its game in effects and proofs, which are scattered over its whole surface. But it is in the public and authorised condemnations of books, either as altogether proscribed, or as sentenced to various emendation or alteration, issuing: from the highest authority which the Italian Church possesses, that I am now to shew, in the last signal, and very modern, instance, (as I have hitherto done in a detail from the beginning,