Excerpt from The British Critic, Vol. 22: For July, August, September, October, November, and December, 1803
No file for books, is daily declared, with much folemnity, by thofe who feel a momentary intereli in having it believed; by thol'e who with to difcourage the hopes of an author, or lower the price of his labours: yet Reviewers of all defcriptions flill find it diflicult to keep pace with the works that iflite from the prefs; and have no defence for their omif. Fions, but that neceflity which they all experiencea That we are not more deficient in this ref than our neighbours, we have fearon feel a ured; ye: our half yearly (election genera y works which certainly belong n0t firifily to period. It is our own half year, act that of e chronology, from which we make our choice. A little time, however, places all on an equality, and they who have been noticed early, and they Whom accident has caul'ed to wait, are alike recorded in our progrellive regifier. We begin at prefent, as we have mvariably done, with that which we regard as M.
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John Henry Newman was a Roman Catholic priest and cardinal who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in October 1845. In early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots.
Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after becoming a Roman Catholic, he wrote a number of influential books.
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