Full Text Search Details
...imas.” [“Thence the sad ones occupy the next abodes, who, though free from guilt, were by their own hands slain, and, hating light, sought death.”—AEn... ...than force me to say what is not? And, on the con- trary, if he who is not guilty of that whereof he is accused, has the courage to undergo those torm... ...cused, has the courage to undergo those torments, why should not he who is guilty have the same, so fair a reward as life being in his prospect? I bel... ... pro- ceeds from the consideration of the force of conscience: for, to the guilty, it seems to assist the rack to make him confess his fault and to sh... ...fed them with this foppery; one, that the nymph Egeria, the other that his white hind, brought them all their counsels from the gods. And the authorit... ...le stature, neither the large- ness and roundness of the forehead, nor the whiteness and sweetness of the eyes, nor the moderate proportion of the nos... ...the nose, nor the littleness of the ears and mouth, nor the even- ness and whiteness of the teeth, nor the thickness of a well- set brown beard, shini... ...the wars, excepting a T urkish sword, and their bodies only covered with a white linen cloth: and for the greatest curse they could invent when they w... ... elephant, the liver of a mole, blood drawn from under the right wing of a white pigeon; and for us who have the stone (so scornfully they use us in o...

Full Text Search Details
...ry had been prepared? What wrong had he done, of what imprudence had been guilty, that, at every turn of life, something should occur so grievous as ... ...pprobation of Miss Cass. But Lady Mabel had declared that she would not be guilty of the folly of changing old habits. Silverbridge, being Silverbridg... ...ou its name, ’ said Mr Walker, who was a hale old gentle- man with silvery-white hair, over seventy years of age. ‘I proposed your father for this bor... ...s aware of it before I went to Matching. Had I been so, I should have been guilty of that treachery of which you accuse me. I did know nothing of it t... ...ing of that conspiracy of which he had certainly at first judged her to be guilty? She had told her story, and had then appealed to Lady Mary for evi... ...to him by the University pundits. Tifto, with a cigar in his mouth, with a white hat and a blue veil, and a new light-coloured coat, was by no means t... ...ssive brilliancy of her complexion. No pink was every pinker, no alabaster whiteness was ever more like alabaster; but under and around and through it... ...oadway up to the hall door. The lodge itself was as ugly a house could be, white, of two stories, with the door in the middle and windows on each side... ...rtainly done her best. But he, poor blind idiot, saw nothing of this. The white gauzy fabric which had covered Isabel’s satin petticoat on the previo...

Full Text Search Details
...ch is hidden in the earth or buried in a howe is in a wrong place I hold you guilty of no misdeed, especially since you have brought it to me.” Gretti... .... ? Here is now a malefactor convicted of The Saga of Grettir the Strong 87 guilt, one who has burnt innocent men in their houses, and yet is allowed... ...y. His son Kjartan was grown up and was now a fine young man. Thorsteinn the White was a man who dwelt at Sandhaugar to the south of Eyjardalsa; his w...

Full Text Search Details
... the T ory prejudices of this writer, and his perversions of facts for the whitewashing of despots, and blackening of popular institu tions. These po... ...h always reminded me of the battle about the shield, one side of which was white and the other black. I marvelled at the blind rage with which the com... ... we had given an emphatic warning to those who might be tempted to similar guilt hereafter, that, though they might escape the actual sentence of a cr...