[We are inclined to think that _Wiltshire_ must be a misprint for
_Worcestershire_ in the Review, as the notices of Miss Elstob in
Kippis' _Biographia Britannica_, and Nichols' _Anecdotes of
Bowyer_, only speak of her retirement in distressed circumstances
to Evesham, where she attracted the notice of Mr. Ballard, author
of _Memoirs of British Ladies_, and of Mrs. Capon, wife of the
Rev. Mr. Capon, of Stanton, in Gloucestershire.]
_Cardinal Bellarmin._--I find the following passage in D'Israeli's
_Curiosities of Literature_:--
"Bellarmin was made a Cardinal for his efforts and devotion to the
Papal cause, and maintaining this monstrous paradox--that if the
Pope forbid the exercise of virtue and command that of vice, the
Roman Church, under pain of sin, was obliged to abandon virtue for
vice, if it would not sin against conscience."
Can any of your readers favour me with the text in Bellarmin, which
contains this "monstrous paradox?"