An authentic narrative of the extraordinary cure performed by Prince Alexandre Hohenlohe on Miss Barbara O'Connor, a nun, in the convent of New Hall, near Chelmsford : with a full refutation of the numerous false reports and misrepresentations / by John Badeley.

  • Badeley, John Carr, 1794-1851.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An authentic narrative of the extraordinary cure performed by Prince Alexandre Hohenlohe on Miss Barbara O'Connor, a nun, in the convent of New Hall, near Chelmsford : with a full refutation of the numerous false reports and misrepresentations / by John Badeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    disputants, to discontinue their contest, which at last must end where it beg-an—in the conviction of neither. If, however, they determine to persist, I hope they will mix a little courtesy with their controversy.—In- struments cut keenest when set with oil; and the ^^fortitei' in re will not be weakened by the suaviter in modo.'^ Every one oug-ht to exercise liberality to- wards the religious opinions of others, when he considers that belief or unbelief is not an act of volition. Nobody can believe or disbelieve just what he wishes. The faith of every one is regulated by the bias which the mind early received, either from parental influence, education, or different degree of intellect. If we think others in error we may pity, but not censure.