No matter how splendid may be the accommodations provided by these academies--no matter how richly they may be endowed--if there be no provision made for the religious education of the pupils, I trust they will remain silent, unattended Halls." Numerous other proofs to the same facts are accessible, but these are abundantly conclusive.

The history of the struggle itself, the slow and evidently reluctant change in Mr.O'Connell's opinions, and the intolerant spirit with which the enemies of the bill pursued the name and character of those who, although they approved of the mixed system, were as inveterately inimical to the dangerous provisions of the bill as they were themselves, sufficiently attest that faction swayed the troubled movement of clerical and popular passion alike.

The vulgar and virulent anathemas of some tongues and pens not only swept unsparingly over the unhappy crowd, but aimed at the lofty sphere of Episcopal authority, even where most identical with purity and piety.

A malignant charity extended to the errors of the Primate that palliation which perverted reason otherwise refused to admit.

Too lofty to be accused of treachery, he was not too sacred to be pronounced mad.
The Committee of the Association alone nearly escaped the influence of the fierce spirit of the times.