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...ne would rid him of Arminius by poison: this was the most potent enemy the Romans had, who had defeated them so ignominiously under Varus, and who alo... ... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ...ent in his own house, imprisoned and killed him. Justice required that the Romans should have satisfaction for this offence; but there was a difficult... ... but the profit of the augmentation of the public revenue, that served the Roman Senate for a pretence to the foul conclu- sion I am going to relate, ... ...fitable for human society; it will be marriage; and yet the council of the saints find the contrary much better, excluding from it the most venerable ... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ... are no opposing desires. It is true, they may say, but we will not yield; saints themselves speak after that manner. I mean those who boast in good g... ...in! Pain was (for example) vehement even to perfection in the souls of the saints by penitence: the body had there naturally a sham by the right of un...

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... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ...

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... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ...

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... duty which they owe to them- selves. Joking apart, no account of the most romantic adven- ture could be more mildly improbable than this of the jour-... ...lity at the home-com- ing. Eve was smiling in the midst of her joy, as the saints smile upon martyrdom. The face of a young and very fair woman grows ... ... the distinction of a prose writer, for to him we also owe the magnificent romance of The Archer of Charles IX. Some day our nephews will be proud to ... ...he whole machinery of modern society is so infinitely more complex than in ancient times, that the subdivision of human faculty is the result. The gre... ...ellow, a genius. I have read your Archer of Charles IX.; it is more than a romance, it is litera- ture. Only two living men could have written the pre... ... changed than the old cathedral. It is built against the old presidial, or ancient court of appeal, and people still call it the maison de justice. It...

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...he limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins æs alienum, another’s brass, for som... ...ver too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silen... ... wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman prætors have decided how often you may go into your neighbor’s land... ... the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class t... ...t some free labor. Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduri... ...enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few... ...not stir though the meeting house burn down. “The Skip of the Tip Toe Hop, a Romance of the Middle Ages, by the cel 66 Walden ebrated author of ‘Tit... ...his world, so that nothing can spoil it, and putting the perseverance of the saints to the blush? with which you may sweep or pave the streets, and sp...

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...hese days of deep wretchedness you believe nothing concerning the good old saints. The author has not finished yet. Know all ye who read these tales w... ... in fair T ouraine. This teaches us to have always recourse to God and the saints in all the undertakings of life, to be steadfast in all things, and,... ... is shrouded in darkness to a degree that would make you ruin your eyes in ancient books; but it was certainly something of great importance. Neverthe... ... raised up the Princess Judith for the Hebrews, and Queen Lucretia for the Romans, would keep his most illus- trious abbey of T urpenay, and indulged ... ...o you like music? We will play together. Let us sing the lay of some sweet ancient bard. Eh? What do you say? Come to my organ; come along. As you lov... ...burst into prayers, and recommended herself to the graces of Messieurs the Saints in paradise. It happened that she cried so loudly to God that He hea... ...ose authority has more than once been invoked in these narratives, certain ancient sages had led before him. At last, Vieux par-Chemins reached the ag... ... the ambassadors wrote to their masters on the subject. The Emperor of the Romans was much cut up about it, because he had loved her to dis- traction ... ...er tresses, of which she had only given a single one to the Emperor of the Romans, who kept it in his breast, like a precious relic; fi- nally, she co...

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...a colander, honeycombed with the shadows of the dints, hollowed out like a Roman mask. It set all the laws of anatomy at defiance. Close inspection fa... ...ost defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. In the second—the ancient Egyptians (we are told) invented incu- bator-stoves for hatching eg... ...3 Balzac Mephistopheles is blended with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating elem... ...ssion in a Frenchified German seemed to Cecile to be in the highest degree romantic; the descendant of the Virlaz was a second Werther in her eyes—whe... ....—”And you, Mademoiselle Cleopatre!—attention!” she continued, tapping the ancient fowl on the beak. Then Mme. Fontaine began to think; for several se... ...n over a pair of angular knees encased in threadbare felt. The robe was an ancient printed cotton garment, lined with wadding which took the liberty o... ...crackers,” punc- tual in their attendance at Saint-Francois on Sundays and saints’-days, were on friendly terms with the beadle and the lowest ecclesi...

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...melt to- gether.” My eccentric private errand became a part of the general romance and the general glory—I felt even a mystic companionship, a moral f... ...landes- tine, in their relations. I on the other hand had hatched a little romance according to which she was the daughter of an artist, a painter or ... ...who had left the western world when the century was fresh, to study in the ancient schools. It was essential to my hypothesis that this amiable man sh... ...visitors to Europe. When Americans went abroad in 1820 there was something romantic, almost heroic in it, as compared with the perpetual ferryings of ... ...hen the air was aglow with the sunset, I was standing before the church of Saints John and Paul and looking up at the small square-jawed face of Barto...

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... strength would not give them. At the further end of the room there was an ancient piece of furniture, which was always called ‘papa’s secretary’, at ... ...dear to her, or who even had been respected by her, were made, as it were, saints in her imagination. They were brought into the inner circle, and cou... ...hat Miss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the... ...thful servant in Christ, ‘T . Barnum’ (Baronum Castrum having been the old Roman name from which the modern Barchester is derived, the bishops of the ... ...vinced that until the world should have been improved by a new infusion of romance, and a stronger feeling of justice, Mr John Walker was right. 127 ... ...emy, and that they should therefore be vehemently discouraged. Services on saints’ days she regarded as rank papacy, and had been known to accuse a cl... ...myself. I think the world would be very much the poorer. I am very fond of ancient masters, though I do not suppose that I understand them.’ ‘They are... ...en the fami- lies. Since those days that T oogood had been gathered to the ancient Toogoods of old, and the son reigned on the family throne in Raymon...

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...el next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradit...

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...of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his wh... ...voice rose into a cadence of a Gregorian chant, the beauty of the alliterated ancient Latin echoed through the chapel like a spiritual sonnet. As h... ... the night before. After experiencing a visitation, worthy only of the mystic saints, he should have felt exhilarated, consumed in a state of reverie... ...him, feeling alone and very uncomfortable before the premiere Eminence of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had dedicated his life The Pope a... ... Antonio?” he asked. “Of course, Holy Father,” he replied and sat down in an ancient wooden chair. “Antonio,” the Pope began with a smile, “tell m... ...ne may have merely viewed the beauty of Rome, but Father Antonio saw the Holy Roman Empire, headed by the most powerful religious leader in the worl... ... mother described their meeting as if she were telling a fairy tale: a young, romantic girl meets her daring knight and sweeps her off her feet and ...

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...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...o Chapter 2 34 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 34 ancient Persia. (In Mr. Helprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream wo... ...mous author was not alone in feeling indignant. Thomas More (one of only two saints to write really good political theory) made similar points, though... ...ight. “The lords and nobles were up- setting the social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure... ...vanescent subject matter; a favorite title of mine is I. Trotter Hardy, “The Ancient Doctrine of T respass to Web Sites,” 1996, art. 7, Journal of Onl...

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...contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scan...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ...ekly open-air town markets to multi-day events combined with annual local saints festal celebrations. As pioneer printers spread out across Euro...

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...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ...hey ‗mortify‘ their flesh by wearing a spiked celise on their legs, drawing blood and giving pain, as some Opus Dei members do. Some Catholic saints... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien...

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...always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the Modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the an... ...n Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legen... ...was a question of an Imperium, he said to himself, and if one wished, as a Roman, to recover a little the sense of that, the place to do so was on Lon... ...thing sound that was always with him. “You Americans are almost incredibly romantic.” “Of course we are. That’s just what makes everything so nice for... ...he nomenon, the thing always as certain as sunrise or the coming round of saints’ days, the doing by the woman of the thing that gave her away. She d... ...ous creatures. It rather frightens one. But the Blessed Virgin and all the Saints,” said the Prince, “have her in their keeping.” “Certainly they have... ... the board, on a figure he thinks he may move and then may not: small florid ancientries, ornaments, pendants, lockets, brooches, buckles, pretexts for ... ...s, intaglios, amethysts, carbuncles, each of which had found a home in the ancient sallow satin of some weakly snapping little box, there was, in spit... ... the facts. “And for which we must trust each other—!” “Oh as we trust the saints in glory. Fortunately,” the Prince hastened to add, “we can.” With w...

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...henchmen has led.” Beowulf 12 1 Either merely paved, the strata via of the Romans, or else thought of as a sort of mosaic, an extravagant touch like... ...: so in Chaucer’s Squire’s tale, in the ballad of King Estmere, and in the romances. XVI And the lord of earls, to each that came with Beowulf over ... ...ind recall, then edge of the sword must seal his doom. Oaths were given, and ancient gold heaped from hoard. — The hardy Scylding, battle thane best, ... ...ed being. Seek if thou dare! I will reward thee, for waging this fight, with ancient treasure, as erst I did, with winding gold, if thou winnest back.... ... store enough, heirlooms old, the earth below, which some earl forgotten, in ancient years, left the last of his lofty race, heedfully there had hidde... ...t death waves of balefire he chose. From his bosom fled his soul to seek the saints’ reward. 1 Where Beowulf lay. XXXIX It was heavy hap for that her...

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... PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN..............

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................................................. 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ..................................................................... ...myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five romances s... ...oad could atone for slavery, even as no bills in Parliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Wal... ...st. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott il leste... ...my hope is, that so long as ye defile not your hands with the blood of the saints of God, neither I nor my book shall hurt either you or your authorit...

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...Excerpt: In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom ...

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...lden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virg... ...on Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mother- city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red j... ...ne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the Romans to the genius and enterprise of the first of German traders. He coul... ...s to pokes, as the saying went, and must now be met as became burgesses of ancient Cologne, and by joint action destroyed. ‘In! in, all of you!’ said ... ...arked one. ‘House! The woman, man! the woman!’ ‘Ah!’ replied the other, an ancient inhabitant of Cologne, shaking his head, ‘the house is oldest!’ Far... ...at, friend,’ Farina mildly remonstrated. ‘Lilies are indeed emblems of the saints; but then they are not poor flowers of earth, being transfigured, lu... ...y en- wraps me, gazing on these fair bells! I look on the white sea of the saints. I am enamoured of fleshly anguish and martyr- dom. All beauty is th... ...d was a regu- lar tramp-grate, tramp-screw sound-coming nearer and nearer: Saints of mercy! The apartment was choking with vapours. Isentrude made a d...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One CHAP... ...s- ing over a shapeless confusion of modern edifices, piled rudely up with ancient brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built ... ... dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial purposes demand. “Miria... ...shed and stript away; except, indeed, that the low roofs of a few of these ancient sites of worship were cov- ered with dingy stucco, and frescoed wit... ...an of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, who then dwelt and worshipped in these dismal places. Y ou have hea... ...marvels of this kind. “These eyes of mine never beheld him, signorina; the saints forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches n... ...s to it, shall pass from its hereditary possessor, in ac- cordance with an ancient vow, and become the property of the Church. As Miriam approached, s...

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...hemselves so much for me as to persuade me one way or the other, except my ancient good friend the widow, who ear- nestly struggled with me to conside... ... ship, and did their utmost to make us see them. We immediately spread our ancient, to let them know we saw them, and hung a waft out, as a signal for... ...ink of us. As soon as Friday told me he saw people, I caused the En- glish ancient to be spread, and fired three guns, to give them notice we were fri... ...e out of the ship’ s crew whom I took up at sea. It is true this man was a Roman, and perhaps it may give offence to some hereafter if I leave anythin... ... sir, the essence of the sacrament of matrimony” (so he called it, being a Roman) “consists not only in the mutual consent of the parties to take one ... ...he answered, with abundance of candour, thus: “Sir, I am a Catholic of the Roman Church, and a priest of the order of St. Benedict, and I embrace all ... ...salute of five guns at parting, we set sail, and arrived at the bay of All Saints in the Brazils in about twenty-two days, meeting nothing remarkable ... ...Cape St. Augustine, and in three days came to an anchor off the bay of All Saints, the old place of my deliverance, from whence came both my good and ... ...hey came to admit the Chinese Confucius into the calendar of the Christian saints. A ship being ready to sail for Lisbon, my pious priest asked me lea...

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...re Joseph Genestas was an unostentatious kind of Bayard. There was nothing romantic nor picturesque about him—he was too thoroughly commonplace. His w... ...rodi- giously neglected. He knew in a hazy kind of way that Cae- sar was a Roman Consul, or an Emperor, and that Alexander was either a Greek or a Mac... ...t to continue his education. So from this time forth he read new books and romances with avidity, in this way gaining a half- knowledge, of which he m... ... well-doing. We know nothing of the civic virtue that led the great men of ancient times to serve their country in the low- est rank whenever they did... ...e that makes each of us seek to rise above his fellows, and there are more saints than shrines among us. “This is how it has come to pass. The monarch... ...olidity, which added to the old-world appearance of the buildings with the ancient trees that stood about them, and the growth of plant life on the ro... ...figures had been carved on the horn handles of the knives. These relics of ancient splendor, which, nevertheless, looked almost new, seemed to those w... ... days without flinching. In short, there were as many battles as there are saints in the calendar. “Then it was made clear beyond a doubt that Napoleo... ...I was smoking my pipe, and worshiping Judith as if she had been one of the saints above, the worthy Renard was arranging to meet her, and managing thi...

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.............................................................................53 Romance .................................................................... ...leafless now, a ghostly band Of skeletons in cold array. A lonely surge of ancient spray Told of an unforgetful sea, But iron blows had hushed for ... ...mbled and swayed with rapture vast (Long centuries have come and gone), This ancient plain, when night comes on, Shakes to a ghostly battle blast, Si... ...e cheers with golden lore Of heroes and the men that long before Wrought the romance of ages yet unscanned. Still does a cry through sad Valhalla go F... ...k pity on him and obeyed, And long stood looking where his hands had laid An ancient woman, shrunk to skin and bone. Far out beyond the forest I could... ...elves were enough to lead her In love’s despite to break them… . Sinners And saints — I say — are rocked in the cradle, But never are known till the w... ...m to die, but no man ever dies Till he has quit the road that runs to death. Romance I Boys We were all boys, and three of us were friends; And we w... ...y striven, Foiled with her voice, and eyes, and hair. There’s nothing in the saints and sages To meet the shafts her glances had, Or such as hers have...

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...pare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall...

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..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...n leaning on the parapet and the cathedral lay the “Terrain” (such was the ancient name of this barren spot), still strewn with the ruins of the Archi... ... d’Arcole, the cathedral, and the quai de la Cite. This spot, the heart of ancient Paris, is the loneliest and most melancholy of regions. The waters ... ...ll were framed in silvery white hair. Her gown could only be called by its ancient name of “fourreau,” so tightly was she sheathed within it, after th... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ...t the matter. “How old is she?” he began to ask himself; and a vision of a romance in the rue Chanoinesse came to him. “She certainly has an air of no... ...were all in order and the accounts audited, “a precious acquisition to the saints among whom you live. Two or three hours a day will now suffice to ke... ... monsieur;” said the good old Alain; “you owe everything to God.” “You are saints, and you have the calmness of saints;” said the former magistrate; “...

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...tangle them from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwel... ...n them the foremost parts in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fer... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...ese stories may not be true; but that they should have been current in the ancient world shows what was the char- acter of the man of whom they were t... ...then beheaded to gratify the rage of the vindictive woman. Since Scripture Saints in the age of miracles were not al- ways shielded from the wrath of ...

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...others to undertake the like. Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impoverishing of book selle... ...n such imitators as Rowe was of Shakespear, or as Horace hints some of the Romans were of Cato, by bare feet and sour faces. To invent good stories,... ...prehension of this contempt that hath made us so cautiously avoid the term romance, a name with which we might otherwise have been well enough content... ...and no less so to you to travel it over with me. “This seat, then, is an ancient mansion house: if I was in one of those merry humours in which you ... ...e is one whose devotion to the fair sex, like that of the papists to their saints, wants to be raised by the help of pictures. But I am so far from de...

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...forget my visit to Redclyffe four years ago. It was more like a scene in a romance than anything real—the fine old red sandstone house crumbling away ... ...ve, unless you mean to fight it out with his grandson, which would be more roman- tic and exciting.’ Philip was gone before he could finish. Mrs. Edmo... ...ess, with its large folding-screen, covered with prints and caricatures of ancient date, its book- shelves, its tables, its peculiarly easy arm-chairs... ...ing?’ ‘I am afraid I am very ignorant of modern books.’ ‘Have you read the ancient ones?’ asked Laura. ‘I’ve had nothing else to read.’ ‘Nothing to re... ... ones?’ asked Laura. ‘I’ve had nothing else to read.’ ‘Nothing to read but ancient books!’ exclaimed Amabel, with a mixture of pity and astonishment. ... ...t,’ cried Laura; ‘he only looks on it as we have always done, as a sort of romantic appendage to Redclyffe. I should think better of a place for being... ... ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, 18—AGED 21 1/2. I BELIEVE IN THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS. ‘Will you be so kind as to give it to Arnaud when it is done?’ she ... ...ed to judge for herself. She begged that he might come after church on All Saints’ day. He came, and after his first greeting of peace, Mrs. Edmonston... ...d and pure and bright as he, and you will belong to the great communion of saints to-morrow, you precious little one, and be so much nearer to him as ...

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...s three favorite pessimists. He tried his hand occasionally at deciphering ancient inscriptions, reading them as people seem to read the stars, by dis... ...is Sonia, has rescued her from that injustice, and enshrined her among the saints. He has lifted the Chicago anarchists out of their infamy, and shewn... ... and whose political imbecility and caprice moved Coriolanus to say to the Roman Radical who demanded at least “good words” from him He that will g...

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... black, glossy, long-tailed, barrel-bel- lied, thick-flanked, arch-necked, Roman-nosed Flanders horses, which were the property of the two gentlemen n... ...nocence, when vice, agreeable vice, is the only thing which the readers of romances care to hear? The little horse-boy, who was leading the two black ... ...milian Gustavus Adolphus von Galgenstein, captain of horse and of the Holy Roman Empire” (he lifted here his hat with much gravity, and all the crowd,... .... Cat should have a fortune of twenty guineas, and reminding Tummas of his ancient flame for her: but Mr. Tummas, when this propo- sition was made to ... ...ltravers, whom we all of us have read about and pitied; or die whitewashed saints, like poor “Biss Dadsy” in “Oliver Twist.” No, my dear madam, you an... ...it: for in those days his religion was not popular. “Baids? Holy Mother of saints! give me back them baids,” said Mr. Macshane, clasping his hands. “T... ...ssession of her sober senses, she would have seen in five minutes that her ancient lover was a ninny, and have left him with scorn; but she was under ... ...-to-do bourgeois, living at the Tyburn, or Gallows Road. She found out her ancient lover very soon after our arrival, and hath a marvellous hankering ...

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...gan to be fill’d very early with rambling Thoughts: My Father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent Share of Learning, as far as House Educat... ...V oyage to the Brasils, and arriv’d in the Bay de Todos los Santos, or All Saints Bay, in about Twenty two Days after. And now I was once more deliver... ...all the Lead I had left for Bullets. I fancy’d my self now like one of the ancient Giants, which are said to live in Caves, and Holes, in the Rocks, w... ...the Veneration of the People to the Clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all Religions in the World, even among the most br... ...d how I have disposed of it. After a few Days farther Conference with this ancient Friend, he brought me an Daniel Defoe 203 Account of the six first ... ...Way, and that was Religion; for as I had entertain’d some Doubts about the Roman Religion, even while I was abroad, especially in my State of Solitude... ... for me, much less going to settle there, unless I resolv’d to embrace the Roman Catholick Religion, without any Reserve; unless on the other hand, I ...

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...riage he means: English civil marriage, sacramental marriage, indissoluble Roman Catholic marriage, marriage of divorced persons, Scotch marriage, Iri... ... really in favor of maintaining marriage as it exists in England to-day. A Roman Catholic may obey his Church by assenting ver- bally to the doctrine ... ...ot be tolerated. As a matter of fact it is not tolerated fully even by the Roman Catholic Church; for Roman Catholic marriages can be dissolved, if no... ...he polygynist nations have not gravitated to monogamy, like the latter-day saints of Salt Lake City. The answer is not far to seek: their polygyny is ... ...simple disuse. The private con- tract stage of this process was reached in ancient Rome. The only practicable alternative to it seems to be such an ex... ...ife as well as to the mere fact of breathing, is making short work of many ancient liberties, and exposing the pursuit of happiness as perhaps the mos... ...h in his pocket, where he keeps it to this day, in spite of the occasional saints and martyrs who contrive from time to time to get their heads and so... ...age of their experience to get ahead of them, we should recognize that the ancient system of specifying grounds for divorce, such as adultery, cruelty... ... it endurable? I have noticed in myself a great delight in pictures of the Saints and of Our Lady; but when I fall under that most terrible curse of t...

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...share throughout our lives:- but even to them, no more than to our Western saints and he- roes, does the law of the state supersede the higher law of ... ...theft.’ There are many (not Catholics merely) who require their heroes and saints to be infallible; to these the story will be painful; not to the tru... ...ue elixir for all vital spir- its, these are what they seek alike in their romantic enter- prises and their unromantic dissipations. When they are tak... ...nightmares– is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Greeks and Romans, too, are reserved as sort of general- utility men, to do all the di... ...mself would defend the lines in which we are told how Laocoon ‘Revealed to Roman crowds, now Christian grown, 114 Robert Louis Stevenson That Pagan a... ...thmetic could postpone beyond a year or two. He was essentially the simple ancient man, the farmer and landholder; 190 Robert Louis Stevenson he woul... ...ld centuries, since first the heathens shouted for their installation. The ancients had hallowed them to some ill religion, and their neighbourhood ha...

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...ining his wan but noble features, “why speak to thee in the accents of the Roman poet, which thou comprehendest not? Bright One, there be other things... ...sm: the above sentiment is expressed much more eloquently in the ingenious romance of Eugene Aram:—”The burning desires I have known—the resplendent v... ...n clan—a little nation alone and outlying amongst the mighty monarchies of ancient time, the Megatheria of history. The sails of their rare ships migh... ...mbassador’s lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique. He never tr... ...elief in their necessity? It is you who are mean—you Normans—not we of the ancient race. Y ou have your vulgar measurement for great things and small.... ...r Lyons or Lion. The beautiful and the brave alike give cognizances to the ancient people: you Sax- ons call yourselves Brown, or Smith, or Rodgers,” ... ... the daughter of Holkar bears a sacred life for me—but for you!—by all the saints of Hindustan, four of ye shall die if ye stay a moment longer in my ... ... Hildebrandt and OTTO together. Like, like I tell thee as two peas. O holy saints, that I should be born to suffer this!— to have all my affections wr... ...ssed the night in the chapel, vowing tons of wax-candles to all the patron saints of the House of Cleves, if they would raise her up a defender. But h...

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...ppears to have been that printing was first carried on in England in an ancient chapel converted into a printing house, and the title h... ...ost retired manner, of whom my landlady gave me this account: that she was a Roman Catholic, had been sent abroad when young, and lodg’d in a nunnery ... ... to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting at traction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temp tations. This being acqu... ...mon acquaintance jocosely remark’d, that, knowing it to be the custom of the saints, when they received any favour, The Autobiography of Benjamin Fran...