Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sir Arthur Wellesly, not just a military man

"For my own part, I have certainly never seen the Protestant Catechism, which the Honorable member has just alluded to. Neither am I acquainted with those other documents from which he has quoted, in order to refute the statements in the Catechism that have given him so much offence. But, Sir, I do think that, when that Honorable gentleman has stated what the opinions are which he says are inculcated in some schools, he should have told us what those are which are taught in others. Now I have been informed that in several Roman Catholic schools children have been taught to read, not out of the Bible, but out of Paine's Rights of Man, and in books professing to give an account of the sufferings and ill-treatment which the Roman Catholics of Ireland have experienced at the hands of the Protestants. Such an education as this, it is evident, must necessarily breed them up in a fixed and rooted hatred to Protestants." ~Sir Arthur Wellesly

While working on my paper I decided I need to study the lives of Wellington and Napoleon. Right now I am reading "The Speeches of the Duke of Wellington in Parliament" by Arthur Wellesley Wellington, John Gurwood and William Hazlitt. Published in 1854.

You can find the book here.

Monday, March 2, 2009

If you see this post...

...reply, and say you were here, but don't tell anyone else. I am hoping to start actually blogging soon, but not yet.