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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... ...s own work; he had grown up in the wild independence of his nature. If, in polished countries, the lowest of the people are rude and uncivil, it is no... ...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... ...s own work; he had grown up in the wild independence of his nature. If, in polished countries, the lowest of the people are rude and uncivil, it is no... ...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... ...e of proceeding, besides the dangers of the elective system in itself. The Polish laws, which subjected the election of the sovereign to the veto of a... ...en who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the ... ... pour a Catholic population into the United States; on the other hand, the Catholics of America made proselytes, and at the present moment more than a... ...ing the truths of the Church of Rome are to be met with in the Union.* The Catholics are faithful to the observances of their religion; they are ferve...

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...heerless, sunless room, with the shabby win- dow-curtains, the comfortless polished floor, the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse... ...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... ...ry easily acquire the tone of Parisian society. If Mme. de Bargeton needed polish, on the other hand she possessed the native haughtiness of good birt... ...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... ...oth partners. The booksellers nodded slightly. “I have a French historical romance after the style of Scott. It is called The Archer of Charles IX.; I... ...“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... ...tyle of Scott. The char- acter of the struggle between the Protestants and Catholics is depicted as a struggle between two opposed systems of governme... ...orthy little old soul, his father-in-law. All three of these city men were polishing their opera-glasses, and anxiously scanning the house; cer- tain ...

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...nal we might arrange for certain letters to recur at distinct intervals in Roman capi- tals, which might spell out, ‘This Night AT Twelve,’ or ‘At Onc... ...rt of intruding aborigines, whose presence entirely dispelled the sense of romantic dominion which a mighty eminence should give, and which Britons ex... ...nute!” Captain Gambier smiled brilliantly; and the lady, perceiv- ing that polished shield, checked the shot of indignation on her astonished features... .... Laura caressed her, whispering, ere she replied: ‘The Signorina Vittoria Romana!—Biancolla!—Benarriva!’ and numerous other names of inventive endear... ..., though he observed them last, small brass pieces of cannon, shining with polish. Shot was piled in pyramids beneath their mouths. He exam- ined the ... ...shed the Austrians to be beaten, remarking, how- ever, that they were good Catholics, most fervent Catholics. As the Lord decided, so it would end! “O...

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...ot only more celebrated but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with... ...elf. Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances which had been my mother’s. My father’s design was only to improve... ... retard the future efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never b... ...security, and confidence. How, when mak- ing application to an amiable and polished woman, whose situation in life was so superior to mine, so far abo... ... general, are better instructed in the prin- ciples of their religion than Catholics; the reason is obvious; 67 Rousseau the doctrine of the former r... ...e two leagues distant from Lausanne, and generally in com- pany with other Catholics, particularly a Parisian embroi- derer, whose name I have forgott... ... woman, but of a confined under- standing, and too full of her illustrious Polish nobility: she had no idea of the respect due to talents. On this occ... ...lets, rang the alarm-bell. The French especially, that mild, generous, and polished people, who so much pique themselves upon their attention and prop...

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...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ...undance of room for them in our great pilot house. Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt fronts, diamond breast pins, kid glov... ...through this blind place at night without the friendly old landmark. No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any fe... ...man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him, sir.” At eight o’clock, pro... ...ey break camp and go for the woods.” After rounding out and finishing up and polishing off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably i... ...he telegraph mutilated them. It can not be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestant... ...ram, only 26,362 attended church and Sunday school, while out of the 150,000 Catholics, 116,188 went to church and Sunday school. Chapter 52 A Burning...

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...el is, for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped ou... ...ins pre-eminent authority; the king be- comes his Mairedupalais; he can proscribe, he can com- mand; and the temptation is ever towards too much. Thus... ...seven hundred or a thousand feet above the beach, a Virgin looks insignificantly down, like a poor lost doll, forgotten there by a giant child. This l... ... it is the missionary’s delicate task to modify; and the more he can do so from within, and from a native stand- point, the better he will do his work... ...the foot of the ravine. Two roads divided it, and met in the midst. Save for this intersection the amphitheatre was strangely perfect, and had a certa... .... Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi. And for either shore of it at closer quarters, con- ceiv... ...in the smoke of the family hearth. Head-hunting, besides, still lives around my doorstep in Samoa. And not ten years ago, in the Gilberts, the widow m...

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...ked upon as the elder. In their early youth they were led away by a man of Polish extraction, though a British subject, one Count Prometesky, who had ... ..., and had been to a ball at Gov- ernment House, and thus was viewed as the polished mem- ber of the family, though, if he had come as master, I should... ...ring how rough and uncultivated she was, nor himself either. “We leave the polish to you,” said Harold. “Why, yes,” said Eustace, simpering, “my uncle... ... were com- monly termed—and we all rode together as long as we were on the Roman road, while they conveyed, rather loudly, in- formation about the Dol... ...ttle, for Hippolyta, with another of her cui bono sighs, car- ried off the Roman mosaic that was the ladies’ prize, telling Pippa that it should be he... ...nsoled me, and he afterwards said to me: “Madam, in our youth intellectual Catholics are apt to reject what our reason will not accept. We love not au... ... ac- cept my representation of the marvellous difference it must make to a Roman Catholic to be no longer isolated from the offices of religion. He ha...

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...he had heard in the servants’ hall? Again, had my title borne ‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profl... ...te knowledge of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scor... ...readers under- stand, that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry, nor a tale of modern manners; that my hero will neithe... ...ty Years sooner than he did, he would, in all probability, have wanted the polished man- ner and knowledge of the world which he now possessed; and ha... ...hen, wheel- ing out beneath from among the smooth dark rocks, which it had polished for ages, it wandered murmuring down the glen, forming the stream ... ...ion, perhaps,’ said Fergus, ‘may make obstacles, though we are not bigoted Catholics.’ ‘My grandmother was of the Church of Rome, and her religion was... ... with the royal Adventurer. Unaccustomed to the address and man- ners of a polished court, in which Charles was eminently skil- ful, his words and his...

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...up without any clear traces about it or near it, like the brazen castle of romance round which the sea-tide flows. My father must have borne me miles ... ...I remem- bered of my mother. The ladies observed that it was clear I was a romantic child. I noticed that the old gentleman said ‘Humph,’ very often, ... ...he spoke of his exposure to the risk of marrying again; it added a curious romantic tenderness to my adoration of him, and made me feel that he and I ... ...e, intoxicated me. And the statue was superb-horse and rider in new bronze polished by sunlight. ‘It is life-like! it is really noble! it is a true Pr... ...han myself, a handsome, intelligent, high-spirited girl, rather wanting in polish, and perhaps in the protecting sense of decorum. She was well-born, ... ...f faith, and it was found refractory. Hence our many divisions. ‘The Roman Catholics admit reason?’ said Janet, who had too strong a turn for showing ...

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...e lines which he laid down. The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with... ... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ... was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible,... ...d numbers the world will willingly remember. I cannot tell. I admire their polish — their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to spe... ...ng the plates and glasses, the forks and spoons, giving the knives a rapid polish on the knife-board; and then putting everything away , giving the si... ...he’s a Protestant, and you know they don’t look upon these things like the Catholics.’ 203 Somerset Maugham “Then he said: `But what does Ata say to ...

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......................................................................... 352 ROMAN ELEGIES. ............................................................... ...y step. Now, in flat channel, Through the meadowland steals it, And in the polish’d lake Each constellation Joyously peepeth. Wind is the loving Wooer... ... to the ground. 1823. III. ATONEMENT. [Composed, when 74 years old, for a Polish lady, who ex- celled in playing on the pianoforte.] PASSION brings r... ... call all evil by its name, Nought soften down, attempt no quibble, Nought polish up, nought vainly scribble. The world shall stand before thee, then,... ...across my mind it rush’d With pristine force the other day. The New-Poetic Catholics In ev’ry point its aptness fix! 1815.* SONGS. SONGS are like pain... ...ings, then mayst thou dread the soft breeze.” 352 Goethe ELEGIES. PART I. ROMAN ELEGIES. [The Roman Elegies were written in the same year as the V e-...

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...pel because Dissenters learnt pieces of Scripture! You seem to me like the Roman Catholic child, who said there were five sacraments, there ought to b... ... would be very horrid of them if they had no constancy,” declared the more romantic Paula. “It will be a regular mess if they do have it, and bring on... ...me young man, his touch of Italian blood showing just enough to give him a romantic air; and Sister Philomena listened, much impressed by the intercha... ...y!” “You don’t understand,” began Agatha. “He was a great Saint before the Catholics became so Roman.” “Oh, never mind! It is anything to thwart us,” ... ... 6 of the Vanderkist girls should spend a year with Miss Mohun for a final polish at the High School at Rock Quay, so as to be with her brother Adrian...

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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... ...reme over the doctor’s household. If, for in- stance, there was a brightly polished warming-pan above the mantelshelf, it probably hung there because ... ...acquotte, however, was an indefatigable folder of linen, a born rubber and polisher of furniture, and a passionate lover of a perfectly religious and ... ...m lost their lives in the Beresina, and the two others died miserably in a Polish hospital. “The poor fellow himself only returned from Wilna in 1814,... ...oncordat occasioned an unimpor- tant schism, a little segregation of ultra-catholics who re- fused to recognize the Bishops appointed by the authoriti...

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...t the town, such as it was well to counteract. The floor was of slip- pery polished oak, the walls hung with leather, gilded in some places and depend... ...he dog, the well-known crest of the Talbots of the Shrewsbury line. On the polished floor, near the window, were a child’s cart, a little boat, some w... ...forth Antony Babington, declaiming— “Great Queen Zenobia am I, The Roman Power I defy. At my Palmyra, in the East, I rule o’er every man... ...t, I rule o’er every man and beast” Here was an allusion couched in the Roman power, which Master Antony had missed, or he would hardly have uttere... ...r Antony had missed, or he would hardly have uttered it, since he was of a Roman Catholic family, though, while in the Earl’s household, he had to con... ...—the Master of Gray, as they call him, and Esme Stewart of Aubigny, a Scot polished as the French know how to brighten Scottish steel. Nor will the la... ...d her whisper to Nau, “A rider came up even now! ’Tis the tidings! Are the Catholics of Derby in the saddle? Are the ships on the coast?” In came the ... ... in high places, if it came to light that the plot was devised, not by the Catholics who were to be the instru- ments thereof, nor by the Lady in whos... ...nclose them all within his net—above all the persecuted Lady whom all true Catholics own as the only lawful sovereign within these realms. Such scheme...

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...rawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia?s son...

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...eenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessari... ...nger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth’ wil... ... decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at the angles, and cabinets with gems and antiques ... ...magined that the Huguenots were on the point of rising and slaying all the Catholics, and, with the savagery of alarmed cowardice, the citizens and th... ...bound to the French Reformers who would gladly have come to terms with the Catholics at the Conference of Plassy, and regretted the more decided Calvi... ...tics. De Mericour consulted spiritual advisers, who told him that none but Catholics could be truly holy, and that what he admired were merely heathen... ...ad. —Cymbeline. MERICOUR found the welcome at Hurst Walwyn kindly and more polished than that at Combe Manor. He was more readily understood, and foun... ...supernatural anxieties, and to have merely to guard against the wiles of a Polish priest, a being almost as fabulously en- dowed in his imagination as... ...g shadows, and gleamed into all the recesses of the interlacing boughs and polished leafage above. ‘Do you see, Sir Duke?’ demanded his lady. ‘I see m...

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...om, with its heavy timbers and panelled walls, look as if it were built of polished ebony—the wind roaring and howling with out, now rattling the lat... ...ure in old mahogany; there was not more rubbing, scrubbing, burnishing and polishing, in the whole street put together. Nor was this excellence attain... ...et those of the locksmith. It was but a flash, an instant, a breath upon a polished glass, and he was gone. The locksmith was upon him—had the skirts ... ...ioning Parliament not to pass an act for abolishing the penal laws against Roman Catholic priests, the penalty of perpetual imprisonment denounced aga... ... it comes from: there’s an end of that. Now I want to make one against the Catholics, I’m a No Popery man, and ready to be sworn in. That’s what I’ve ... ...ave some revenge on him—anything. And when you told me that he and all the Catholics would suf fer from those who joined together under that handbill... ...are the most Protestant fellows in the world, give our worst wishes to the Roman Catholic cause; and to Saville, who introduces their bill, I have a p... ... in a remarkably dull and shady seminary at Saint Omer’s, where you, being Catholics and of necessity educated out of England, were brought up; and wh... ...gh bred bulldog. If it hadn’t been for me to day, he’d have had that ‘ere Roman down, and made a riot of it, in another minute.’ ‘And why not?’ cried...

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... his first wife’s grave. Yes, you may smile, Maurice, as if I were talking romance; but only look at him, poor man! Did you ever see any one so utterl... ...is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be, as a sort of interesting romance. I am sure I pity the poor man heartily, but to see her at three-an... ...uld think him a most elegant scholar.’ ‘And a deep one. He has studied and polished his acquire- ments to the utmost. I assure you, Winifred, I mean t... ...cious if she had known how to set about it. ‘I suppose Miss Belmarche is a Roman Catholic,’ she said, wishing to account for this wonderful ignorance,... ...ine quoted somewhere else. In such a controversy, lightened by perpetually polished poems, by a fair amount of modern literature, select college frien... ...ss, stood a translation of his own, made many years ago, full of scholarly polish. She ventured to ask leave to copy it. ‘I will copy it for you,’ he ... ... don’t believe they could argue; they are not like the new-fashioned Roman Catholics of whom you are thinking, madame.’ ‘And are there no enthusiastic... ...ted. You know the family at Hadminster Hall in the last century were Roman Catholics, and a daughter had pro- fessed at a convent in France. At the ti...

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... 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... ... 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... ...ike a pestilence! This young Weyburn would touch the fancy of a woman of a romantic turn. Supposing her enthusiastic in her wor- ship of the hero, aft... ...ything you have done for us. It will stop the Memoirs, or else give them a polish. Your young friend has made me laugh over stuff taken for literature... ...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...

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... to dispose of a manuscript of this kind, he can never know what stores of romance and sensibil- ity lie hidden in breasts he would not have suspected... ... have reason to believe that you, on your part, were equally free from all romantic regard to me. Still, out of school hours we walked and talked con-... ...ctive, fertile look. Steam, trade, machinery had long banished from it all romance and seclusion. At a distance of five miles, a valley, opening betwe... ...at- ing enough for the other. You think perhaps you look intelli- gent and polished; carry your intellect and refinement to mar- ket, and tell me in a... ...of short and somewhat rude sentences, and the style stood in great need of polish and sustained dignity; yet such as it was, I had hitherto seen nothi... ...r, I long to live once more among Protes- tants; they are more honest than Catholics; a Romish school is a building with porous walls, a hollow floor,... ... some momentous event sounded all through the premises of Pelet: painters, polishers, and up- holsterers were immediately set to work, and there was t...

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...re is more than the ordinary height above her, and who, now that her first romantic admiration of his lofty bearing has worn off, and her fretful litt... ...d peculiar attributes of a hea- then God. He was a disposer of men: he was polished, luxu- rious, and happy—at their cost. He lived in eminent self- c... ...on the young heir. Lady Attenbury of Longford House had brought her highly-polished specimen of mar- ket-ware, the Lady Juliana Jaye, for a first intr... ...ng had aforetime a bad charac- ter. Notwithstanding what years had done to polish it into fair repute, the Raynham kitchen stuck to tradition, and pre... ... “She’s a lady, as good as the best of ‘em. I don’t care about their being Catholics—the Desb’roughs o’ Dorset are gentlemen. And she’s good for the p... ... handmaid, and History his minister and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bride; where he walked in a realm vaster and more gorgeous than... ...ANDS have not yet rooted out their old brood of dragons. Wherever there is romance, these monsters come by inimical attraction. Because the heavens ar... ...ect discreetness. “What on earth induced you to talk about Protestants and Catholics marrying, Rip?” said Richard, as soon as they were in the street....

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...ndoned it. For one masterpiece of architecture saved from destruction by a Polish princess (the hotel Lambert, Ile Saint-Louis, bought and occupied by... ...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... ...e behind the neck had frayed the satin, which was re-satined, that is, re- polished, by a species of oil distilled from the wig. In the days of its yo... ...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... ...Christ.’ Strive to convert yourself to the holy Catholic, apos- tolic, and Roman Church, and you will see how empty your words are. Hear me, Felix; ma... ...of all kinds that was under the bed, and finally laid her hand on a bit of polished steel about half an inch long, the use of which was to her inexpli... ...gentlemen attached to Saint-Jacques du Haut Pas in the rue des Postes good Catholics?” “Undoubtedly,” replied the barrister, “religion has no more loy...

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...ad received at that time to write the history of the King, was employed to polish and ornament his pleas. Nothing was left undone by M. de Luxembourg ... ...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... ...e Prince’s suite, was present, but had been ill. There was drinking in the Polish fashion, and he tried to be let off. The Prince pleaded for him; but... ...pon coming down again, she said it could only be that of Orondat. Now that romances are happily no longer read, it is necessary to say that Orondat is... ...moreover, bold, audacious, talk- ing loudly and always with authority; was polished, how- ever, and of good manners when she pleased. Being the most i... ... 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... ...dals of his life. He heard nothing but eulo- gies, while the good and true Catholics and the true bishops, groaned in spirit to see the orthodox act t... ...ts and Jacobites of that country. For very different reasons, not only the Catholics and Protes- tants, enemies of the government, were ravished at it...

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...of stones roughly piled. He thought this prospect, from a city house, almost romantic; and he turned from it back to the interior (illuminated now by ... ... the relaxation of many European despotisms, for in former years much of the romance of her life had been in smoothing the pillow of exile for banishe... .... She wished to work in another field; she had long been preoccupied with the romance of the people. She had an immense desire to know intimately some ... ...de as yet— happily for Olive, who promised herself, as we know, to train and polish them— Chapter 15 91 but they were as genuine as fruit and flowers,... ...ption had yet deterred him from presenting a surface which he believed to be polished till it shone; there was always a larger one in favour of his po... ...y, without Verena’s tender notes, her crusade would lack sweetness, what the Catholics call unction; and, on the other hand, how weak Verena would be ... ...hat the place was a spacious music room, decorated in white and gold, with a polished floor and marble busts of composers, on brackets attached to the ...

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............................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41—418 ............................................... ... He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to be prepared, ... ...hese. He only made the natives give him some of their pearls, and call the Romans their masters, and then he went back to his ships, and none of the s... ...ver the Church, held with him and Mary of Scotland. They were called Roman Catholics, while Elizabeth and her friends were the real Catholics, for the... ...ficult to judge was, that the kings of France and Spain, and all the Roman Catholics at home, thought Mary ought to be queen instead of Elizabeth, and... ...t up in different castles. There she managed to interest the English Roman Catholics in her, and get them to lay plots, which always were found 84 Yo... ...e gener- ally lived, under the Pope’s protection; and where he mar- ried a Polish princess and had two sons, whom he named Charles Edward and Henry. T...

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...r the slightest suspi- cion of heresy. Distrust on the part of the Ro- man Catholics, and a rupture with the church, would have been fatal also to man... ...stances natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actu... ...s natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actuated t... ...the church widened, the firmer became the attachment of the Span- iards to Roman Catholicism. The German line of the House of Austria was apparently m... ...con- sistency could an apostate from the Romish Church wear the crown of a Roman emperor?) bound the successors of Ferdinand I. to the See of Rome. Fe... .... for the use of Germany, to rec- oncile the differences between the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans, which, however, was rejected by both parties —... ...g involved in a tedious war with Poland, in which the whole of Livonia and Polish Prussia were successively conquered. Though constantly vic- torious,... ...erial troops 155 Friedrich Schiller had been despatched to the aid of the Polish king, Sigismund, to defend Prussia against the Swedes. When the king... ...ution of it. Charnasse, an unsuspected agent of the Cardinal, proceeded to Polish Prussia, where Gustavus Adolphus was conducting the war against Sigi...

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...her husband’s family, beyond the prom- ises of fairy land or the dreams of romance; for it is certain that to her chiefly this family was also indebte... ...er, it is believed that Shakspeare wrote nothing more after this exquisite romantic drama. With respect to the remainder of his personal history, Dr. ... ... T rue; but prodigious as it is, there is really nothing between them. The Roman stage, at least the tragic stage, as is well known, was put out, as b... ... same commercial exertions to which he had been obliged himself. The Roman Catholics, indeed, were just then situated as our modern Quakers are. Law t... ...ch an education to be sought? At the petty establishments of the suffering Catholics, the instruc- tion, as he had found experimentally, was poor. At ... ... the widest has its uses; and, for the extension of his influence with the polished classes amongst whom he lived, he did wisely to add other language... ...s neighborhood, could not be expected to display any very high standard of polish. Yet, on the other hand, as an independent city, governed by its own...

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... by all around him; and the rule which holds that men at Rome should do as Romans do, if true anywhere, is true in America. Therefore I say that in an... ...France; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Pr... ...; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Protesta... ...tely be their fate in the country. Surely one may declare as a fact that a Roman Catholic popula- tion can never hold its ground against one that is P... ...against one that is Protes- tant. I do not speak of numbers; for the Roman Catholics will increase and multiply, and stick by their religion, al- thou... ...st valueless. That a change in the fashion of hats should have assisted to polish these poor fellows off the face of creation, must, one may sup- pose... ...eeling of external inferiority. When that has gone—when the Ameri- can has polished himself up by education and general well- being to a feeling of ex... ...in its greatest richness can produce. In Paris he will find the supreme of polish, the ne plus ultra of varnish according to the world’s capability of... ... that a new people should show their independence in all things. The Roman Catholics have a very strong party—as a matter of course—seeing how great h...

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... the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars. From time to time we shall get up and go to the ... ...s. With the far-away look in her eyes— which wasn’t, however, in the least romantic—I mean that she didn’t look as if she were seeing poetic dreams, o... ...y carried him back to Las Tours and La Louve wasn’t at all impressed. They polished him up and her husband remonstrated seriously with her. Vidal was,... ... glish life. It was amazing. It was overwhelming. I never shall forget the polished cob that Edward, beside me, drove; the animal’s ac- tion, its high... ...d without making the stipulation that the children should be brought up as Catholics. And that, of course, was spiritual death to Leonora. I have give... ...ee that Leonora was a woman of a strong, cold conscience, like all English Catholics. (I cannot, myself, help disliking this religion; there is always... ...ence. For, of course, that frame of mind has been driven in on the English Catholics. The centuries that they have gone through—centuries of blind and... ... had never undeceived him on that point. She thought it made her seem more romantic. No, Edward had no remorse. He was able to say to himself that he ... ...nough, the first real trouble between them came from his desire to build a Roman Catholic chapel at Branshaw. He wanted to do it to honour Leonora, an...

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...owever, the Ramlers, Rabeners, Gellerts, had attained to no inconsiderable polish of style; Klopstock’s Messias had called forth the admiration, and p... ... in an equally expectant condition. Every- where, as in Germany, there was polish and languor, external 10 Autobiography glitter and internal vacuity... ...estruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus’s Romans, who ‘called it peace when they had made a desert.’ Here the ardent ... ...ess the scepticism of Jarno, the commercial spirit of Werner, the reposing polished manhood of Lothario and the Uncle, the unearthly enthusi- asm of t... ...iet country town on the Lahn, one of the seats of govern- ment of the Holy Roman Empire. The emperors lived at Vienna; they were crowned at Frankfort;... ...In the interior of the house my eyes were chiefly attracted by a series of Roman views, with which my father had orna- mented an ante-room. They were ... ...s- ter over the old Adam. We were taught that we were much better than the Catholics for the very reason, that we were not obliged to confess any thin...

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...n said, though somewhat less absolutely, of the barbarians who overran the Roman Empire. It required centuries of time, and an entire change of circum... ...mprovement than to make them free: when freed, they may often be fit, like Roman freedmen, to be admitted at once to the full rights of citizenship. T... ...ings, and energies of the people. The despo tism of Augustus prepared the Romans for Tiberius. If the whole tone of their character had not first bee... ...e majority would allow equal justice to the minority? Suppose the majority Catholics, the minority Prot estants, or the reverse; will there not be th... ... maintained, be either under a non German government, or the interven ing Polish territory must be under a German one. Another considerable region in... ... of proselytism, to place his children in a Roman Catholic seminary; Irish Catholics will not send their children to schools in which they can be made...

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... 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... ...Now, as it is good for those to tell who intend preserving their taste for romance and hate anatomical lectures, we never can come to the exact motive... ...ou might bet against Braney blindfold, Mallard. How long shall you take to polish him off, Kit Ines?’ The opponent of Ben Todds calculated. ‘Well, sir... ...ing sheets. It’ll come right. At present I ‘m so bent to pick and perfect, polish my phrase, that I lose my survey. As a conse- quence, my vocabulary ... ...ssed from one side to the other through the remain- ing hours of darkness, polishing sentences that were natural spouts of choicest diction; and still... ...aking of him. He said: ‘By George, it comes to this; we shall have to turn Catholics for a loan!’ Watchdogs of the three repeated the gigantic gambler... ... fearing Roman Catholic encroachments was, she said, her having known good Catholics in the coun- try she came from. For herself, she should die profe...

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... opens at the depopulation of Italy by the aggressive great estates of the Roman Empire, at the impoverishment of the French peas- antry by a too cent... ...; the rhythm is a little altered. As between the Gallic peasant before the Roman conquest, the peasant of the Gallic province, the Carlovingian peasan... ... chose to deal with them as they should be dealt with, as out of date as a Roman legion or a Zulu impi. Now, first, as to the impossibility of getting... ...e differ- ence between the two classes is mainly in unimportant things— in polish, in manner, in superficialities of accent and vocabu- lary and socia... ...ls is concerned. There are, for example, those great elements, the Spanish Catholics, the French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics... ...lent factors in the American synthesis, the immigrant European aliens, the Catholics, the coloured blood, and so forth. I would now observe that, in t...

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...- sian novel its direction to this very day. More than that. The nomad and romantic in him, troubled and restless with Ukrainian myth, legend, and son... ...sian critic’s observation about Gogol: “Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in l... ... fate. One has to see this denizen of the frontier in his half-Tatar, half-Polish cos- tume—which so sharply outlined the spirit of the border- land—g... ...tator.” Into this short work he poured all his love of the heroic, all his romanti- cism, all his poetry, all his joy. Its abundance of life bears one... ...ed Europe from the merciless hordes which threatened to overwhelm her. The Polish kings, who now found them- selves sovereigns, in place of the provin... ...eady begun to make itself felt upon the Russian nobility. Many had adopted Polish customs, and began to display luxury in splendid staffs of servants,... ...sed and all the shore spoke:— *That is of the Greek Church. The Poles were Catholics. *Lyakhs, an opprobrious name for the Poles. 47 Taras Bulba & Ot... ... secret intercourse with your enemies, and we will have nothing to do with Catholics; may the evil one fly away with them! We are like own brothers to... ...ach us with any insulting speeches. Now, hey there, men! we’ll call on the Catholics.” And then he struck his horse, and there followed him a camp of ...

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...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...The barrier between men and animals also. We read of Towianski, an eminent Polish patriot and mystic, that “one day one of his friends met him in the ... ...ourignon, a good woman, much persecuted in her day by both Protestants and Catholics, because she would not take her religion at second hand. When a y... ... into our hearts and thrilled them. The words have now perhaps become mere polished surfaces for us; but lyric poetry and music are alive and signific... ...en will serve as a specimen of the orthodox philosophical theology of both Catholics and Protestants. Newman, filled with enthusiasm at God’s list of ... ...gativity of it is to the Catholic mind incomprehensible. To intel- lectual Catholics many of the antiquated beliefs and practices to which the Church ...

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... 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... ...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 ... ...” he used to say, “with my goitre I’ve quite the countenance of an ancient Roman patri- cian of the decadent period.” He seemed proud of it. Not long ... ... and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors. He turned out a first rate cook. F... ...st alike in their vice. They are swindlers, only there the scoundrel wears polished boots and here he grovels in filth and sees no harm in it. The Rus... ...t up and walked to- wards them. He found Smerdyakov dressed up and wearing polished boots, his hair pomaded, and perhaps curled. The guitar lay on the... ...ome, and not even the whole of Rome, it’s false-those are the worst of the Catholics the Inquisitors, the Jesuits!… And there could not be such a fant... ...ere’s something of the same mystery at the bottom, and that that’s why the Catholics so detest the Masons as their rivals breaking up the unity of the...

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...ees. I went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope’s indul- gence for doing woolwork on Sunda... ... went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope’s indul- gence for doing woolwork on Sundays. An... ...s most intimate friends. At that time while with his regiment in Poland, a Polish land- owner of small means had forced him to marry his daughter. Ana... ...use to anyone.” After a few words to Pierre about the awful roads from the Polish frontier, about people he had met in Switzerland who knew Pierre, an...

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...reyish-red cheek puffed out by tobacco fol- lowed him up also on a ladder, polishing the panes with a dry cloth till they shone and reflected the mott... ... barracks. A certain terror held him. In a week the great structure of his romantic world, so full of many colors and harmonies, that had sur- vived s... ...nto the rainy mist in every direction. A few lights gleamed, a very bright polished yellow. They followed a board-walk that splashed mud up from the p... ...ention very stiffly. Fuselli’s eyes followed the curves of his brilliantly-polished puttees up to the braid on his sleeves. “Parade rest!” shouted the... ...n, ain’t yer? Well, he’s a good friend o’ hers; see? Bein’ as they’re both Catholics … But I’m goin’ out this afternoon, see what the town’s like … an... ...that shone like lacquer. “This is wonderful,” said Andrews involuntarily. “Romantic I call it. Makes you think of Dickens, doesn’t it, and Locksley Ha... ...tween the palms of both hands. He remembered a speech out of some very bad romantic play he had heard when he was very small. “About your head I fling...

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...t at Montreal, where she learnt a good many accomplishments. They were not Roman Catholics; but it was the only way of getting an education. Dayman mu... ...ontreal, where she learnt a good many accomplishments. They were not Roman Catholics; but it was the only way of getting an education. Dayman must hav... ...s always a little subdued by my brother’s manner; I think its courtesy and polish almost frightened her, high- spirited, resolute woman as she was. “I... ...at was actually my case. I was enamoured of the blue-spectacle plan; I had romances of watching Alured day and night, and pouring away dan- gerous dra... ...it was called, with an open chimney, screened by a settle, and with a long polished table, with a bench on either side. Into this room the front porch... ...and our dignity. Lady Hester Lea was the heroine of the neighbourhood. The romance of the disowned daughter was charming; and I 42 Charlotte M. Yonge... ..., well-dressed man, only given to elaborate jewellery and waistcoats, with polished black hair and boots, and keen French-looking eyes, well-mannered,...

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...st alike in their vice. They are swindlers, only there the scoundrel wears polished boots and here he grovels in filth and sees no harm in it. The Rus... ...t up and walked to- wards them. He found Smerdyakov dressed up and wearing polished boots, his hair pomaded, and perhaps curled. The guitar lay on the... ... s robes, as he was the day before, when he was burning the enemies of the Roman Church—at this moment he is wear- 85 Dostoevsky ing his coarse, old,... ...at He has said of old. One may say it is the most funda- mental feature of Roman Catholicism, in my opinion at least. ‘All has been given by Thee to t... ...ome, and not even the whole of Rome, it’s false-those are the worst of the Catholics the Inquisitors, the Jesuits!… And there could not be such a fant... ...f course it’s a fantasy. But allow me to say: do you really think that the Roman Catholic movement of the last centuries is actually nothing but the l... ...ere’s something of the same mystery at the bottom, and that that’s why the Catholics so detest the Masons as their rivals breaking up the unity of the... ...ffectedly, setting his right foot forward, and playing with the tip of his polished boot. “Why are you surprised at me?” Ivan asked abruptly and s...

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... Pavlovna. The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished manners, who evidently consid- ered himself a celebrity but out of... ...ur letter of the 13th has given me great delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not ... ...than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like your- self. The news of Count Bezukhov’... ...ooked as if he were smeared with chalk—as white as flour! I sup- pose they polish him up as they do the guns.” “I say, Fedeshon!... Did he say when th... ...Bourienne, they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, up to the appearance of the pauvre mere; they understood that they... ..., or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with the sme... ... went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope’s indulgence for doing woolwork on Sundays. And ...

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...sh I had married a fishmonger! Silva, indeed, is a most excellent husband. Polished! such polish as you know not of in England. He has a way—a wriggle... ...difference to expense, and the inexplicable minor characteristics, such as polished boots, and a striking wristband, and so forth, which will show a c... ...cheese, and a chaste bed, seemingly utterly extinguished. I am cured of my romance. Of course, when I say bread and cheese, I speak figuratively. Food... ...ding his hat to assume some- 101 George Meredith thing of the gentlemanly polish of its youth, and might have been observed now and then furtively ca... ...ourt, that Evan would be confer- ring a benefit on all by carrying off the romantically-inclined but little presentable young lady. The diplomatist, w... ...y touching and delicate? Can you not see Providence there? Out of Evil—the Catholics again! ‘ Address. If Lord Lax—’s half-brother. If wrong in noddle... ...ually divided between alarms of sisterly affection and a keen sense of the romance of the thing. Miss Carrington ordered the carriage to be driven rou...

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...e hot water; and thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and eve... ...r, as his life hitherto has been disgracefully written, and the events are romantic and rapid; the character very strong, salient, and worthy; much in... ... again, the ever delightful man, sane, courageous, admirable; the birth of Romance, in a dawn that was a sunset; snobbery, conservatism, the wrong thr... ... I may try Fontainebleau, by the way. But so soon as Charles of Orleans is polished off, and immortalised for ever, he and his pipings, in a solid imp... ... (3) The Evictions. (4) Emigration. (5) Present State. V. RELIGION (1) The Catholics, Episcopals, and Kirk, and Soc. Prop. Christ. Knowledge. (2) The ... ...very good paper; and I am vain enough to think I have materially helped to polish the diamond. I ended by feeling quite proud of the paper, as if it h...