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AN INDEX

OF

PROHIBITED BOOKS,

BY COMMAND OF THE PRESENT POPE,

GREGORY XVI.

in 1835;

BEING THE LATEST SPECIMEN OF

THE LITERARY POLICY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.

BY THE REV. JOSEPH MENDHAM, M.A. M.E.H S.
Author of Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Life of Pius V., Memoirs of the Council of Trent, Index Sixti V., Spiritual Venality of Home, &c.

Oratorio.
Pulchra Laverna,
Da mihi fallere, da justum sanctumque videri;
Noctem peccatis, et fraudibus objice nubem.
Hor. Ep. 16.

LONDON :
DUNCAN AND MALCOLM,
37 PATERNOSTER ROW.


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