Henry Edward Manning, note (18 September 1887), quoted in Edmund Sheridan Purcell, Life of Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. Vol. II: Manning as a Catholic (1895), p. 458
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In truth, the main characteristic of these men was vanity—intellectual and literary. They had the inflation of German professors, and the ruthless talk of undergraduates.
— Henry Edward Manning
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About John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902) was an English Catholic historian, commonly known as Lord Acton.
About John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902) was an English Catholic historian, commonly known as Lord Acton.
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