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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...w year" is a week later, on January 14. It is all Julius Caesar's fault ... The Romans sometimes neglected to introduce an extra month every two... ...most often leaves and corncobs. French royals employed lace, hardy Vikings - wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times i... ...arliaments, local police forces, and judiciary. During states of emergency, Lander assemblies and governments were suspended and they were ruled di...

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...m and demanded answers. In those days, life in Galilee was very harsh: the Romans persecuted Jews and continually invented new laws to make their liv... ...aper Kabbalah T oday. 8 THE ZOHAR However, despite the Romans’ prohibition, Rashbi immersed himself in the Kabbalah and tried to ... ...of his 24,000 students died in plagues, and in fierce battles against the Romans. Of the 24,000 students, only five survived, and Rashbi was among t... ...g them. Rashbi was among the leaders of the Bar-Kokheva revolt against the Roman rule in the land of Israel. His resistance became even more fierce a... ...essly executed. The Talmud writes that once, when Rashbi spoke against the Roman rule, a fellow Jew heard him and alerted the Roman authorities. In c... ...Shimon,” for all the righteous gathered there are the heads of groups and assemblies, whereas all of the assembly members ascend from this assembly ... ...his assembly to the Assembly of Heaven. And the Mashiach visits all these assemblies and seals the Torah that stems from the mouths of the righteous... ...the assembly of Rabbi Shimon, surrounded by the heads of all the Supernal assemblies. As a result of the great revelation—the end of correction—conce... ...t, all of them attained Upper Degrees and reached the levels of “heads of assemblies,” for each assembly has members and a head, and the difference ...

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...sts, or Couriers XXIII. Of Bad Meanes emploied to a Good End XXIV. Of the Roman Greatnesse XXV. How a Man should not Counterfeit to be Sicke XXVI. Of... ...er in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How rightly it is his, and his belove... ...flew out. She faints: at last, with long pause thus she said. Besides the Romane Ladie, that died for joy to see her sonne returne alive from the bat... ...nes: and Talva, who died in Corsica, reading the newes of the honours the Roman Senate had conferred him: It is reported that in our age, Pope Leo t... ...: on something else shouldest thou wreake thyselfe. Livius speaking of the Romane army in Spaine, after the losse of two great Captaines that were br... ...rtaine the same in their owne houses? Moreover it is a common rule in all assemblies, that hee who is the meaner man, commeth first to the place app... ...thers may he with their daughters and with their sonnes: where in solemne assemblies and banquets, without any distinction of blood or alliance, men... ...else. Our life (said Pithagoras) drawes neare unto the great and populous assemblies of the Olympike games wherein some, to get the glorie and to wi... ...ave a Torch carried before one: Some particular place to sit in in common assemblies; the prerogatives of certaine surnames and titles, and proper a...

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...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...ionalism) lasted four tumultuous years - it persisted for a quarter of a century in Romania ("infected" by Orthodox clericalism and peasant lores). ... ... clericalism and peasant lores). While both branches of fascism - the Croat and the Romanian - shared a virulent type of anti-Semitism and the const... ...ic and the fanatic - Codreanu's was more ambitious, aiming at a wholesale reform of Romanian life and a re- definition of Romanianism. The Iron Guard... ...pendent justice, corrupt law enforcement, non-existent freedom of press, religion, assemblies, speech, lack of secular education - the list is endl...

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...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ... Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, F... ...Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, Greece, France Budget: revenues $2.24 billion, ex... ...ersal adult at age 18 Elections: presidential, 12 January 1984; departmental assemblies, 2 June 1974; local assemblies, 30 March 1975; legisla- tive, ... ...tock; 61% Spanish, 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other Religion: virtually all Roman Catholic Language: Catalan (official); many also speak some French ... ...rsal over age 18 Elections: pro forma elections held .for national and local assemblies; last election for National Assembly held on 25 April 1976 Pol... ...mbly, county and municipal executives every four years; county and municipal assemblies every four years Political parties and leaders: Kuomint- ang, ...

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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... ...p side of the arguments that Diderot and later Hugo put forward. Perhaps the romantic author does not create out of thin air. Perhaps he or she is dee... ...ans, everything I have said up to now is the worst kind of sentimental bunk, romanticizing a form of life that was neither comfortable nor noble, and ... ... Supreme Court declared that mere alphabetical listings and other unoriginal assemblies of data cannot be copyrighted. It may seem unfair that much of...

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... in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. This MS. I find thus described in M. F. J. Marchal?s catalogue of that priceless collection: Le Roman de Saint Graal, beginning ?Ores lestoires?, in the French language; date, first third of the sixteenth century; with ornamental capitals.?2...

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... described in M. F. J. Marchal’s catalogue of that priceless collection: Le Roman de Saint Graal, beginning “Ores lestoires”, in the French language;... .... Potvin has carefully collated for his edition all that is preserved of the Romance in this manuscript, comprising all the beginning of the work as f... ...t the latter is on the whole an accurate tran script of the entire original Romance. The only note of time in the book itself is contained in the dec... .... Of the second, 5 The High History of the Holy Graal which represents the Romance here translated, Mr Williams writes: “The second portion of the W... ...as it is, it would have been impossible to give the full drift of one of the Romancer’s best stories, which is equally unintelligible in both the Fren... ... the isles and foreign lands; wherefore they prayed me I should go among the assemblies of knights, that so I might hear tidings of my Lord King Arthu...

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...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...us came to him, that then he did, indeed, see twelve. Hence it is that the Romans, in their divinations from birds, chiefly regard the 42 V olume One... ... up Romulus. Celer upon this fled instantly into Tuscany, and from him the Romans call all men that are swift of foot Celeres; and because Quintus Met... ...niversally agreed to have been the twenty-first of April, and that day the Romans annually keep holy, calling it their country’s birthday. At first, t... ...on is a river, and Babyca a bridge. Betwixt this Babyca and Cnacion, their assemblies were held, for they had no council-house or building, to meet in... ...monians made it a rule never to carry so much as a staff into their public assemblies. But to return to their public repasts;—these had several names ... ...th, giving him the entire power over everything, their magistracies, their assemblies, courts, and councils; that he should appoint the number, times ... ...tion, sometimes in private upon individuals, and sometimes in their public assemblies, were met, on the other hand, by laments and protestations of di...

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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... ...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, ... ...ver That rolls by the walls of Rome: ‘O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman’s life, a Roman’s arms Take thou in charge this day.’... ...oved and honored by his fellow citizens, that in the time of a famine each Roman, to the number of 300,000, brought him a day’s food, lest he should s... ...him he had recourse to constant preaching of repentance, pro- cessions and assemblies for litanies in the church. It is curi- ously characteristic tha...

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... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...to pieces in the desert. Heavens, gentle- men, what a sublime picture! The Roman legions—the wil- derness—Jerusalem in the distance—an army of murdere... ...ce to the earliest work of antediluvian art. Father Mersenne, that learned Roman Catholic, in page one thousand four hun- dred and thirty-one 1 of hi... ...act; re infectâ. For these he wanted linen ban- dages. But, unhappily, the Romans wore woollen, on which account they bathed so often. Meantime, there... ...nted to voting, all the business a man could have was to attend the public assemblies, electioneering, or fac- tious. These, and any judicial trial (p...

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...tellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a str... ...served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans fight- ing unsuccessfully , and being put to flight, he was wounded ... ... death and destruction to all, when it was no small piece of service for a Roman soldier to keep his ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook... ...as sent into Spain, having the command of a thousand men under Didius, the Roman gen- eral, and wintered in the country of the Celtiberians, in the ci... ... aid by night to the Gyrisoenians, their near neighbors, who fell upon the Romans in their lodg- ings and slew a great number of them. Sertorius, with... ...to render them more odious to the people, absented himself from the public assemblies, and lived qui- etly in his own house, as if he were not only re... ...themselves to Demosthenes, and observed his directions. He managed all the assemblies of the Thebans, no less than those of the Athenians; he was belo...

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...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...d succeed in thus intercepting the direct power of haranguing mobs in open assemblies, then will I harangue them, and cause them to be harangued, in t... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...heological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two greatest expense; and the Roman reproach was sometimes true of a Hebrew family, that its whole estate... ... satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a German Journal, that the Greek and Roman ladies knew nothing of that modern appendage to the pocket, 8 howeve... ...s Mr. James observes, by the deposition of Chilperic—by the grand national assemblies of the Champ de Mars—and by other great historical facts. Now, t...

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...d superstition grounded into our principles as was beyond the manhood of a Roman recovery, it will be attributed first, as is most due, to the stro... ...s light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. The Romans also, for many ages trained up only to a military roughness res... ... nor called in. From hence we shall meet with little else but tyranny in the Roman empire; that we may not marvel, if not so often bad as good books w... ...ed, but went not through with. Vouchsafe to see another of their forms, the Roman stamp: Imprimatur, If it seem good to the reverend master of the h... ...ur, one from Lambeth House, another from the west end of Paul’s; so apishly romanising, that the word of command still was set down in Latin; as if t... ...ot as man chooses, lest we should devote ourselves again to set places, and assemblies, and outward callings of men; planting our faith while in th...

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...ys: Book the First what is left of the Temple of Concord, along the ‘Forum Romanum’, of which the fall seems quite recent, like that of some huge moun... ... out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that in diggin... ...al, with difficulty speaks.”—Æneid, iii. 306.] Besides the examples of the Roman lady, who died for joy to see her son safe returned from the defeat o... ...f joy; and of Thalna, who died in Corsica, reading news of the honours the Roman Senate had decreed in his favour, we 66 Essays: Book the First have,... ...n your beloved brother; quarrel with something else. Livy, speaking of the Roman army in Spain, says that for the loss of the two brothers, their grea... ... trouble home to our own private houses? It is also a com- mon rule in all assemblies, that those of less quality are to be first upon the place, by r...

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...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...therefore obliged to spread secretly, and to gain ground in the provincial assemblies, and especially in the townships. American society was not yet p... ...d easily destroyed. A nation is al- ways able to establish great political assemblies, because it habitually contains a certain number of individuals ... ...ntinent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. T own-meet-... ...s of these two Bodies. The legislative power of the State is vested in two assemblies, the first of which generally bears the name of the Senate. The ... ...e world by conceiving, following up, and executing vast designs – from the Romans to the English – have been governed by aristocratic institu- tions. ... ...ars. Montesquieu somewhere alludes to the excessive despondency of certain Roman citizens who, after the excitement of po- litical life, were all at o...

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...is descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shor... ...the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roman hand” in every sen- tence of this brilliant but most unsatisfactory a... ...composure and serenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A li... ...ncivilised; Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold, We still defied the Romans, as of old. Yet some there were, among the sounder few ... ...wer adored, But chiefly Love—to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves; And ... ...nces, the main; The rest, some farm the poor-box, some the pews; Some keep assemblies, and would keep the stews; Some with fat bucks on childless dota...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ...ative and Miscellaneous Essays.” 13 Thomas de Quincey everywhere pass for romances, if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to fact... ...appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vices of Londo... ...hey mix as equal partakers in the same amusements of races, balls, musical assemblies, with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the landed esq... ...efect of all popular or open judicatures. A similar defect of deliberative assemblies—such, at least, as represent any popular influences and debate w...

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... view its bonds, For I will never feel them?— Italy! Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State thing breathed o’er th... ...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...ontroulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You ‘re a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb and have been... ...s as well to think so, now and then; ‘T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman, And may become of great advantage when Folks are discouraged... ...thing in domestic doings Which forms, in fact, true love’s antithesis; Romances paint at full length people’s wooings, But only give a bust ... ...s an aspirant to all The coteries, and, as in Banquo’s glass, At great assemblies or in parties small, He saw ten thousand living authors pass...

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...nglish, nay, in the human mind, to be safely neglected. The essence of all romance is a quest; the quest most perennially and univer- sally interestin... ...e conscious of what there was to forgive; and in the second, a little more roman- tic in her attachment to him. As it is, he was son homme; he 5 Henr... ... de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and its pleas- ant satire; the mighty cr... ...this mighty self-conquest, I now entertained a design of exerting the most romantic generosity, and of cur- ing that unhappy passion which I perceived... ... be thought by all men worthy of Bedlam? or would he not be treated as the Romans treated their Aretalogi,[Footnote: A set of beggarly philosophers wh... ... escutcheon? any bar to his honour? is he not to be found every day in the assemblies of women of the highest quality? in the closets of the greatest ... ...ore an object of this appears it is as sure of attract- ing a croud in the assemblies of the polite as in those of their inferiors. When this croud wa...

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...ge Papers – Swift 15 The Horned Moon, which heretofore Upon their Shoes the Romans wore, Whose Wideness kept their Toes from Corns, And whence we cla... ...ls and posts. Petticoats will not be burdensome to the clergy; but balls and assemblies will be indecent for some time. As for you, coquettes, bawds, ...