. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. a kind of epitome of the viewsof his great master. This book appeared after his death and wasthe occasion of the famous and long-continued controversy betweenthe Jesuits and the Jansenists. Died 1638. John Howard, the celebrated philanthropist, was born atHackney in 1726. He was apprenticed to a grocer, but his con-stitution was del
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. a kind of epitome of the viewsof his great master. This book appeared after his death and wasthe occasion of the famous and long-continued controversy betweenthe Jesuits and the Jansenists. Died 1638. John Howard, the celebrated philanthropist, was born atHackney in 1726. He was apprenticed to a grocer, but his con-stitution was delicate, and, having an aversion to trade, he purchasedhis indentures and went abroad. On his return he lodged with awidow lady, whom he afterwards married. After the decease ofhis wife, who lived only about three years, he embarked in 1756 forLisbon, in order to view the effects of the recent earthquake, buton the passage the ship was taken and carried to France. Thehardships he suffered and witnessed during his imprisonment firstroused his attention to the subject of his future labors. On beingreleased Howard retired to a villa in the New Forest, and in 1758he married a second wife, who died in child-bed in 1765, leaving CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. N. him one son. He at this time resided at Cardington, near Bedford,where he continually strove to ameliorate the condition of the pIn 1773 he served the office of sheriff, which, as he declared,brought the distress of the prisoners more immediately underhis notice and led him to form the design of visiting the jailsthroughout England. He laid the result of hie inqui] fore the House of Commons and received a vote of thanks. He nextmade a tour through the princi-pal countries of Europe, andpublished his State of thePrisons. A new subject nowengaged his attention—namely,the management of lazarettosand the means of preventing thecommunication of the plagueand other contagious 1789 he published An Ac-count of the Prin
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