To his church-and-state notions, and anti-catholic prejudices, which were quite as much political as religious, there was every thing that was proper, and nothing that was wrong, in rejecting a cross for a mitre.

Carlyle says: "Voltaire read history, not with the eye of a devout seer, or even critic, but through a pair of mere anti-Catholic spectacles.

The government, violently anti-Catholic, did not care to use force against the prevalent faith; direct persecution would have weakened the national defence and scandalized Europe.

Lord Stanley was for widening the franchise, but being a Protectionist he could not work with the Peelites; while Lord Aberdeen would not consent to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and was impossible as a leader so long as the anti-Catholic hubble-bubble continued.

An anti-Catholic reaction was declaring itself; and Buckingham at once felt that he could not more effectually satisfy both the Parliament and the people than by suppressing without delay that spirit of religious defiance which was arising in the very palace of the King.

"Lilibullero," the anti-Catholic street song, was sung by thousands of excited lips.

The Tract went in detail through the Articles which were commonly looked upon as either anti-Catholic or anti-Roman.

We thus reach an Ireland which, in a sense, has neither culture nor language, a country in which the Gaelic spoken by a people humiliated and deeply demoralized by an anti-Catholic legislation, which was both savage and degrading, tended to coalesce with an English already condemned to death.

George Moore's anti-Catholic bias is strong, but his is the pen of an accomplished artist.

In the beginning, Brooke was violently anti-Catholic; but, as time progressed, he became more liberal-minded, and advocated the relaxation of the penal laws and a more humane treatment of his Catholic fellow-countrymen.

Other sermons reflect the singularly bitter anti-Catholic feeling which was characteristic even of indifferentism in those daysat any rate amongst Whig divines.

The religion of Béranger, which was so anti-Catholic, and which seems even to have dispensed with Christianity, reduced itself to a vague Deism, which in principle had too much the air of a pleasantry.

Says Mr. G.A. Townsend (New World and Old, p. 212): "Church and State has several times crept into American politics, as in the contentions over the Bible in the public schools, the Anti-Catholic party of 1844, &c.