Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu: Being an Account of a Visit to the Convents of Montreal, and Refutation of the "Awful Disclosures"

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Howe & Bates, 1836 - Anti-Catholicism - 56 pages
 

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Page 28 - The result is the most thorough conviction that Maria Monk is an arrant impostor — that she never was a nun, and was never within the walls of the cloister of the Hotel Dieu — and consequently that her disclosures are wholly and unequivocally, from beginning to end, untrue — either the vagaries of a distempered brain, or a series of calumnies unequalled in the depravity of their invention, and unsurpassed in their enormity. Tl ere are those, I am well aware, who will not dopt this conclusion,...
Page 7 - ... pagan, and who, in order to get possession of Paul's property, informed against him as a Christian, during the terrible persecution of Decius. The youth discovered the treachery in time and withdrew into the desert. His intention had only been to remain there till the danger had gone by; but the villany of one with whom he was so nearly connected had disgusted him with mankind, and as time passed on, instead of being wearied with solitude, he acquired a love for it. Thus wandering farther into...
Page 33 - I will therefore now close this protracted narrative, by expressing my deliberate and solemn opinion, founded not only upon my own careful examination, but upon the firmest convictions of nearly the entire population of Montreal — embracing the great body of the most intelligent evangelical Christians, THAT MARIA MONK IS AN ARRANT IMPOSTOR, AND HER BOOK IN ALL ITS ESSENTIAL FEATURES A TISSUE OF CALUMNIES. However guilty the Catholics may be in other respects, or in other countries, as a man of...
Page 33 - ... hand, poking into every closet, climbing to a high window to see into an unopened room and smelling a row of jars in the basement which might have contained lime used in the disposal of infant's bodies.48 He came away completely satisfied and published an account which ended with the pronouncement : " I most solemnly believe that the priests and nuns are innocent in this matter.
Page 13 - Christ, thus the glory-man, is declared to " be the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person.
Page 45 - Dr. waxed rather warm ; and said — Dr. Brownlee. — I have as much right to call you a liar, as you have them. Mr. Stone.— Very well, if you choose to do so: Dr. Brownlee. — In the same sense in which you say they lie, I may say you lie. You say they have not been in the Nunnery. I have a right to say you have not been there.
Page 25 - In the recreation room we were introduced to the novices, some four or five. The conversation was gay and cheerful, and so pleasant was their laughter at some of our remarks, that I asked them in badinage, what right they had to laugh — that in such a place their business must be to look grave and gloomy, and never smile ! The greater number of the nuns are advanced in life, and some of them are very aged. In the infirmary of the cloister we 'were introduced to quite an aged member of the community....
Page 43 - Gentlemen, there are but thirty six-nuns in that convent — more — considerably more — than one-half of those nuns are too far advanced in life to become the mothers of young children. And yet we have, by Miss Monk's statement, five pages of records, fifteen births and murders to the page, and all within the period of two years, and not more than twelve or fifteen nuns who would probably bear children.
Page 45 - I have been there, and from my own knowledge 1 know that they are telling you falsehoods. Dr. Brownlee. — Your story is all a humbug ; and if you go to publishing any thing, recollect that we have got a press too ! Mr. Stone. — I shall take my own course, Doctor, [or words equivalent.] Dr. Brownlee. — In the same sense in which you say they lie, I [may] say you have not been there, and that you lie, [or are a liar.] Mr.

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