September 7, 1824.--

I have read "Foxe's Book of Martyrs" and finished it to-day, and the

sum of my opinion is, that tyranny and cruelty appear to be the

inseparable companions of religious power, and the aphorism is not

far from truth that says "all priests are the same."

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