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...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time to revise... ...nt that the morning had been spent in preparing a trans- formation. In the provinces comparison and choice are out of the ques- tion; when a face has ... ...in beauty that is taken for granted. But transport the pretty woman of the provinces to Paris, and no one takes the slightest notice of her; her prett... ...ment he believed in chance. Had he not a volume of poems and a magnificent romance entitled The Archer of Charles IX. in manuscript? He had hope for t... ...ravity of the diners is hardly relaxed. Perhaps this gravity is due to the catholicity 44 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris of the wine, which chec... ...“But my book is very serious. It is an attempt to set the struggle between Catholics and Calvinists in its true light; the Catholics were supporters o... ...e found favor in the sight of a council of reverend fathers, and es- caped ecclesiastical censure in spite of its wanton dangerous grace. The bolero i... ... tracks of the big Constitutional pa- pers; they have pigeon-holes full of ecclesiastical canards,” retorted Vernou. “Canards?” repeated Lucien. “That...

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ... houses have disappeared in the valley of the Oise alone. We are getting a Roman campagna around Paris in advance of the days when a tem- pest shall b... ...apa!” remarked his fair and fat daugh- ter, who bore some resemblance to a Roman matron. “You need a shirt, and a pair of clean trousers, and a hat; a... ...which really did resemble those copper suns painted on tavern signs in the provinces. “Has Mam Vermichel spied too much dust on your back, that you’re... ...“T ry to make my fortune! And where shall I try? If I wish to leave my own province, I must get a passport, and that costs forty sous. Here’s forty ye... ...uch better that I should have it, and so enable her to live in peace.” The Catholic religion, and it alone, is able to prevent these capitulations of ... ...es before the Revolution, was again a priest after the re-establishment of Catholic worship, and again the curate of the same little town. He was not ... ...patience of insects; they owe this to the obligation they have been under, ecclesiastically, to preserve decorum,—a train- 198 Sons of the Soil ing w... ...or private, showed in their coldness and reserve the great advantage which ecclesiastical discipline gives to the sons of the Church, even those who d...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... .... She went to church, reformed her dress, 27 Balzac wore gray, and talked Catholicism, mysticism, and so forth. All this produced, in 1825, another l... ...hen it had fallen he went away as happy as an academician at the fall of a romantic drama. Veritable supernumeraries of the social comedy, Phellion, L... ...s youth: modern society could have no other basis than heredity. An ardent Catholic, like all men from the Comtat, he went to the earliest morning mas... ... been con- demned to imprisonment as editor of a liberal newspaper. In the provinces, under the Restoration, he became the bete noire of the governmen... ...hitecture. A grocer, a lucky adulterator, now took the place of the former ecclesiastical governor of an institution called in former times L ’Economa... ...oisie Flavie, to whom in all her life love had never taken the language of romance, sat still, but happy, her heart palpitat- ing, and saying to herse... ... religion,” replied Felix, “and I was saying to mademoiselle how dangerous ecclesiastical influence is in the bosom of families.” “That was not the po... ...ncs’ worth of diamonds (as Mademoiselle Georges says on her posters in the provinces), and, moreover,—a fact which ought to strike the mind of an ambi...

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...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... moved by the new picture of a girl, as if it had been a frontispiece of a romantic story some day to be read. She looked compelled to look, but conse... ...demn Lord Ormont in his quarrel with the Commissioner of one of the Indian provinces, who had the support of the Governor of his Presidency and of the... ... as the men have it; and when their wor- shipped figure of manliness, in a romantic sombrero, is a threadbare giant, showing bruises, they sink on the... ...ed backs, that Lady Char- lotte, without scruple, left standing to blow an ecclesiastical trumpet of empty contents; any one might have his battle of ... ...plained; “I said, America. Y ou would be among Prot- estants in America.” “Catholics and Protestants are both welcome to us, accord- ing to our scheme... ... the famous Peninsula battlefield, etc.), running wild down the streets of Seville, is picked up by Lord Ormont, made to discard her tambourine, broug...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...omas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of such... ...fe ends; but let him not be misremembered in this way. To be hung up as an ecclesiastical scarecrow, as a target for heterodox and orthodox to practic... ...nces of mere costume and dialect still divide him, what- soever is worthy, catholic and perennial in him, from a brother soul who, more than most in h... ...tters of Vetus treated of I do not know; doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for... ...t of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic) in its tendencies and habitudes; and th... ...ch of Sterling’s and ours. A world all rocking and plunging, like that old Roman one when the measure of its iniquities was full; the abysses, and sub... ... there. His express contributions to poetry, phi- losophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlightenment, had been small and sadly int... ...his “ob- ject” and “subject,” terms of continual recurrence in the Kantean province; and how he sang and snuffled them into “om-m-mject” and “sum-m-mj...

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ... were fit to make him sink into the earth. He wore narrow robes, an almost ecclesiastical collar and wristband to match, a brown wig mimed with white,... ...des Logis in the royal house- hold: he arrived at that office by a perfect romance. He was one of the best made men in France, and was much in favour ... ...ed no anger. He wrote in return to me, and said, I was not ignorant that a Roman Emperor had said, “I love treason but not traitors;” but that, as for... ... CHAPTER XIII About this time the King caused Charnace to be arrested in a province to which he had been banished. He was accused of many wicked thing... ...e did not comply, and he was ordered to go at once to the Intendant of the province, who would assuredly furnish him with money, after saying what he ... ... the 12th September, the seizure of all the Cardinal’s estates, laical and ecclesiastical, the latter to be confiscated to the state, the former to be... ...ch would be read with more plea- sure if there were less spite against the Catholic religion, and less passion against the King. With those exceptions... ... would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his s...

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...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...low brick, with a red roof, built about five and twenty years before in an ecclesiastical style. The front-door was like a church porch, and the drawi... ...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...ic. He was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the ful... ... was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the fullest, ... ...T ercanbury , which owing to the cavalry depot had a martial as well as an ecclesiastical tone, for the monotony of life in a country rectory; and the... ...der the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the pictur- esqueness of the Roman Catholic faith appealed to his esthetic sensibility; and it was only the fe... ...the Gordons to lunch”—they were an actor and his wife who were touring the provinces and in London for Sunday—”I told you about it a week ago.” “I’m a...

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ging to no form of real breathing life; nowhere intelli- gible; not in any province; whilst, at the same time, all prov- inces—Somersetshire, Devonshi... ...ther great local advantages (namely, inter alia, a fine old library and an ecclesiastical foundation, which in this present generation has furnished t... ... Dorsetshire and Wilts. These great roads were farmed out as so many Roman provinces amongst pro-consuls. Yes, but with a difference, you will say, in... ...ject, and had stopped its discussion under the anile su- perstition of the ecclesiastical fathers. These fathers, both Greek and Latin, had the ill fo... ... rolls of chivalry,—were not excluded, though it was pretty evident that a Catholic zeal had pre- sided in forming the collection. For, together with ... ...lory of his short career was proclaimed in the ungen- erous exultations of Catholic Rome from Vienna to Madrid, and the individual heroism in the lame...

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...Contents CANTO I. Proem.?Invocation.?Beatrice and Dante ascend to the Sphere of Fire.?Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent.......................................................................................................................................................... 6 CANTO II. Proem....

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... [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .............. 20 CANTO VI. Justinian tells of his own life.—The story of the Roman Eagle.—Spirits in the planet Mercury.— Romeo............................ ..... 30 CANTO IX. The Heaven of Venus.—Conversation of Dante with Cunizza da Romano,—With Folco of Marseilles.—Rahab.—Avarice of the Papal Court. ......... ...isdom of Solomon, ii. 24. 33 The lily on its florin. 34 The books of the Ecclesiastical Law. 35 By the removal in 1305 of the Papal Court to Avigno... ...extracts from the Fathers, designed to show the agreement of the civil and ecclesiastical law,— a work pleasing in Paradise because promoting concord ... ...I apprehend whence thou drawest the occasion of thy 24 Isidore, bishop of Seville, died 636; the Venerable Bede, died 735; Richard, prior of the Mona... ...s the greatest. From him proceeded thereafter divers streams wherewith the catholic garden is watered, so that its bushes stand more living. If such w... ... James, the brother of St. John, was buried at Compostella, in the Spanish province of Galicia. His shrine was one of the chief objects of pilgrimage ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...as born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was chris- tened Carinthia Jane. She was her old father’s pet... ...e to behold her; she begged a visit at her grave, though it was to be in a Catholic burial-place and the priests had used her dear master and mistress... ...he glacier of the great snow-mountain marking the junction of three Alpine provinces of Austria. Josef, the cart-driver with the boxes, who was to pas... ... to be a mili- tary quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. We took the bruised man into our carriage and drove him to... ...us to see it! means to build a mansion there! “He said it must be the most romantic place on earth.” ‘I suppose I slept. I woke with my last line to y... ...ness of Protestant pew and pulpit for him. Another fit of it, in the Roman Catholic direction, had proposed, during his latest dilemma, to relieve him... ...ording the devout observances of a great dame with her minor and superior, ecclesiastical comforters. Regular at church?’ ‘Her ladyship goes.’ ‘A woma... ... the sake of Ambrose Mallard’s family. So much is owing to our friend. Can ecclesiastical casuists decide upon cases of conscience affecting men of th...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ... end of the fifteenth century. And, indeed, it is in the references in his romance to names, persons, and places, that the most certain and valuable e... ...s a statue to his honour, a two- fold homage reflecting credit both on the province and on the town. But the precise facts about his birth are neverth... ...iscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expr... ...ook upon himself to develop and to add to, and in the attacks on the Roman Catholic Church. According to Jean Paul Rich- ter, Fischart is much superio... ... be to find fault with and laugh at the members and the authorities of the Catholic Church, I protest that he did not compose it, for it was written l... ... pen- sion, which in English money is a hundred and fifty pounds, upon his ecclesiastical revenues and treasure, for having cured him of a cankerous b... ... I do pay myself at my own hand, for otherwise I get nothing upon the said ecclesiastical treasure. Ho, my friend! said he, if thou didst know what ad... ... fathers throughout all the convents, cloisters, and mon- asteries of this province), many bribes, a great deal of mass- singing, store of obits, and ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its p...

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... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... called him, I won’ t attempt to explain. I knew a young lady of the last “roman- tic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a g... ...f to orgies of drunkenness. In the intervals he used to drive all over the province, complaining tearfully to each and all of Adelaida Ivanovna’s havi... ...ook this second wife, Sofya Ivanovna, also a very young girl, from another province, where he had gone upon some small piece of business in company wi... ...rhood, where the inmates, being particularly interested in question of the ecclesiastical courts, were com- pletely bewildered by it. Learning the aut... ...s not very large, but very delicate and conspicuously aquiline. “A regular Roman nose,” he used to say, “with my goitre I’ve quite the countenance of ... ... tures in shining settings, and, next them, carved cherubim, china eggs, a Catholic cross of ivory, with a Mater Dolorosa embracing it, and several fo... ...rgument cuts both ways. It is an article written in answer to a book by an ecclesiastical authority on the question of the ecclesiastical court, and t... ...has said of old. One may say it is the most funda- mental feature of Roman Catholicism, in my opinion at least. 232 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV ‘All has ...