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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...t continent, yet doe I sincerely commend and allow the continencie of the Capuchins and Theatines, and highly praise their course of life. I doe by ... ... nisi seductis nequeas committere -- Divis. Pers. Sat. ii. 4. Which you to Saints not drawne aside, Would thinke unfit to be applide. The covetous... ... Garden tender plants, And him that steales by night things consecrate to Saints. There is as much diversity in that as in any other thing. The con... ...le hath only regard to popular defects: They are snares wherewith neither Saints, nor Philosophers, nor Divines, whom we heare so gloriously to spea... ...n, vertuous both according unto nature and divine justice, become of Men, Saints, and of Saints, Demi-Gods, and after they are once perfectly, as in... ...iciall matter of humane society, it will be a mariage; yet is it that the Saints counsell findeth and deemeth the contrary side more honest, excludi...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial purposes demand. “Miria... ...an of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, who then dwelt and worshipped in these dismal places. Y ou have hea... ...marvels of this kind. “These eyes of mine never beheld him, signorina; the saints forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches n... ...the old pagan phantom that I told you of, who sought to betray the blessed saints!” “Yes; it is a phantom!” cried Donatello, with a shudder. “Ah, dear... ...AL CHANT URIAL CHANT URIAL CHANT URIAL CHANT URIAL CHANT THE CHURCH of the Capuchins (where, as the reader may remember, some of our acquaintances had... ...by the tread of footsteps over them. The church appertains to a convent of Capuchin monks; and, as usually happens when a reverend brotherhood have su... ...ther. CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAP... ...N THE DEAD MONK was clad, as when alive, in the brown woollen frock of the Capuchins, with the hood drawn over his head, but so as to leave the featur... ...of many past months and the vagabond of the preceding night, with the dead Capuchin of to-day. It resembled one of those unaccountable changes and int...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial purposes demand. “Miria... ...an of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, who then dwelt and worshipped in these dismal places. Y ou have hea... ...marvels of this kind. “These eyes of mine never beheld him, signorina; the saints forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches n... ...the old pagan phantom that I told you of, who sought to betray the blessed saints!” “Yes; it is a phantom!” cried Donatello, with a shudder. “Ah, dear... ...AL CHANT URIAL CHANT URIAL CHANT URIAL CHANT URIAL CHANT THE CHURCH of the Capuchins (where, as the reader may remember, some of our acquaintances had... ...by the tread of footsteps over them. The church appertains to a convent of Capuchin monks; and, as usually happens when a reverend brotherhood have su... ...ther. CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAPUCHIN THE DEAD CAP... ...N THE DEAD MONK was clad, as when alive, in the brown woollen frock of the Capuchins, with the hood drawn over his head, but so as to leave the featur... ...of many past months and the vagabond of the preceding night, with the dead Capuchin of to-day. It resembled one of those unaccountable changes and int...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...the astonished eye; of pilfering Candle-snuffers, Thief-valets, disfrocked Capuchins, and so many Heberts, Henriots, Ronsins, Rossignols, let us, as l... ...hot Merlin from Thionville, hot Bazire, Attorneys both; Chabot, disfrocked Capuchin, skilful in agio. Lawyer Lacroix, who wore once as subaltern the s... ..., with kisses on each cheek: your iron Handcuffs are disputed as Relics of Saints; the Brest Society indeed can have one portion, which it will beat i... ...in the Feuillants Terrace, whither is no ingate, then in the Garden of the Capuchins, as near as we could get. National Assembly has adjourned till th...

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...e met at Brussels Rochefort, the ame damnee of the cardinal disguised as a Capuchin, and that this cursed Rochefort, thanks to his disguise, had trick... ... weak. An officer who saw me, with a jealous eye, reading the Lives of the Saints to the mistress of the house, entered sud- denly and without being a... ... do not know you.’ ‘I am,’ said I, ‘the little abbe who reads Lives of the Saints, and translates Judith into verse.’ ‘Ah, ah! I recollect now,’ said ... ...es is trustworthy; that two hours after the messenger has set out, all the Capuchins, all the police, all the black caps of the cardinal, will know yo...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...efore M. de Meaux’s book was ready, M. de Cambrai’s, entitled ‘Maximes des Saints’, was published and distributed. M. de Chevreuse, who corrected the ... ... to overthrow the two Dukes. As for M. de Cambrai’s book ‘Les Maxinies des Saints’, it was as little liked as ever, and underwent rather a strong crit... ...ommencement of the dispute M. de Meaux had sent a copy of ‘Les Maximes des Saints’ to M. de La T rappe, asking as a friend for his opinion of the work... ...e verdict from Rome arrived T wenty-three propositions of the ‘Maximes des Saints’ were declared rash, dangerous, er- roneous—’in globo’—and the Pope ... ...d that it was many centuries before Luther and Calvin that those images of saints had been sculptured over that portal; that this proved that saints h... ...er his death. He had some dif- ficulty to find somebody to go in search of Capuchins to pray over the corpse. The decomposition became so rapid and so... ...so rapid and so great, that the opening of the windows was not enough; the Capuchins, La Vrilliere, and the valets, were compelled to pass the night o... ... fictitious priest, and that, consequently, he obstinately insisted upon a Capuchin; and as soon as he came he seized him by the beard, and tugged at ...

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...iged, for the sake of curing him, to have him taken to the hospital of the Capuchins. For three hundred francs we would keep him where he is. But he m... ...the “Knights of Idleness.” During the day these young scamps were youthful saints; they all pretended to extreme quiet- ness; and, in fact, they habit... ... four hundred; four hundred accomplices let loose in the old church of the Capuchins, where Fario has stored all his grain, will consume a not insigni... .... The morning after his arrival he noticed that the roof the church of the Capuchins was black with pigeons. He cursed himself for having neglected to... ...lace chosen for the rendezvous was behind the chancel of the church of the Capuchins at eight o’clock the next morning. Goddet, who was at the ban- qu... ...d on the little meadow which then surrounded the apse of the church of the Capuchins. There he found Philippe and his seconds, with Benjamin, waiting ...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...departure. Within a day or two after our last meeting at the Church of the Capuchins, I called at her studio and found it vacant. Whither she has gone... ... prints, representing the sufferings of the Saviour, and the martyrdoms of saints, hung on the wall; and behind the crucifix there was a good copy of ... ...etained a genuine life; they filled the transepts with a radiant throng of saints and angels, and threw around the high altar a faint reflection—as mu... ...e,” said Donatello. “I tremble at those aw- 76 The Marble Faun V ol 2 ful saints; and, most of all, at the figure above them. He glows with Divine wr... ...his angels look as if they had never taken a flight out of heaven; and his saints seem to have been born saints, and always to have lived so. Young ma... ...s, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres, or the Sacrifice of Abraham, or martyrdoms of saints, origi- nally painted as altar-pieces, or for the shrines of chapels...

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Droll Stories Volume II : The Second Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...in knavery, in whom there was more of the material that makes thieves than saints, and who knew just how far it was possible to go without catching th... ...!” “By the queen of Antlers!” replied the Burgundian, “by my faith, by the saints, by God! and by the devil, I know only stories of the Court of Burgu... ...oman. Certain other jokers reproached them with imitating the lives of the saints, in their own fashion, and said that all they admired in Mary of Egy... ...25 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 boatmen. From whence the raillery: To honour the saints after the fashion of Poissy. There is still the crucifix of Poissy, ... ...onille, then, had an ambition to have her name included in the Calendar of Saints, which was in no way prejudicial to our order. She lived in prayer a... ...he matter had been less easily found than a louse in the filthy beard of a Capuchin friar. But a man well learned and well informed, through having le...

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Pierrette

By: Honoré de Balzac

...peech was made thick and very nasal, like that 42 Pierrette attributed to Capuchins. His hands, which were short and broad, were of the kind that mak... ... that cousins cannot take the place of father or mother, any more than the saints can take the place of God. My poor Jacques, what do you suppose I co...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...then beheaded to gratify the rage of the vindictive woman. Since Scripture Saints in the age of miracles were not al- ways shielded from the wrath of ... ...ighteen Jesuits, twenty-six of the order called Recollets, and forty-three Capuchins, all of whom had freely given their lives in the endeavor to alle...

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Father Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

...w the left bank of the Seine between the Rue Saint-Jacques and the Rue des Saints- Peres know nothing of life. “ Ah! if the women of Paris but knew,” ... ...ne once, and he could not have more mistresses than a house student at the Capuchins. Happiness, old man, de- pends on what lies between the sole of y...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

...night. At twelve a fire-balloon is seen in the sky. Listen, in the name of saints and devils!” But even the Chief was observed to show signs of amuse-... ...t to them to come to you from Baveno. If the Motterone grew just one tree! Saints! one would serve.” “Why don’t you—fool that you are, my Beppo!—pray ... ... one would serve.” “Why don’t you—fool that you are, my Beppo!—pray to the saints earlier? T rees don’t grow from heaven.” “Y ou’ll be going there soo... ...rk enough to make one believe in every single thing they tell us about the saints.” Up in the light of day Luigi had a turn for careless thinking on t... ...ount for by the fact that my mother—the blessed little woman now among the Saints!—was questioned, brows and heels, by a ferruginously—faced old judge... ...did her best to laugh at her mishaps in walking, and compared herself to a Capuchin pilgrim; but she was un- used to going bareheaded and shoeless, an...

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Catriona (The Sequal to Kidnapped)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... and with an exceedingly ill voice and ear – “As Mally Lee cam doun the street, her capuchin did flee, She cuist a look ahint her to see her negligee.... ...re you’re taking me!” I cried. “Just to the Bass, mannie,” said he: “Whaur the auld saints were afore ye, and I misdoubt if ye have come so fairly by ... ...s, was a place full of history, both human and divine. I thought it strange so many saints and martyrs should have gone by there so recently, and left...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...priests hold so dear, Because they bring them land and gold. Of devils and saints and all such gear, He made tales which whoso heard or read Would lau... ...ily from Lucca to join him. I Capuccini was a villa built on the site of a Capuchin convent, demolished when the French suppressed religious houses; i... ...ment, And his most charitable nephews, pray That the Apostle Peter and the Saints Will grant for their sake that I long enjoy ... ... drawn down from Heaven and foreign overthrow. The remnant of the martyred saints in Rochefort Have been abandoned by their faithless allies ...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...mass is singing, From thee doff thy mortal weed, Mary Mother be thy speed, Saints to help thee at thy need;— Hark! the knell is ringing. Fear not snow... ...for six times three hundred and sixty-five days, your swain has placed the capuchin round your neck, and the stove under your feet, and driven your li...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...e is one whose devotion to the fair sex, like that of the papists to their saints, wants to be raised by the help of pictures. But I am so far from de... ...tern returned with Sophia into the room. The young lady had on her hat and capuchin, and the aunt acquainted Mr. Western, “that she intended to take h...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...there are the sheep. The tempest is there, and the in- vocation to all the saints. Rabelais improves all he borrows, but it is from Folengo he starts.... ...th may not have been manipulated and adorned. The Counts of Anjou were not saints. They were proud, quarrelsome, violent, rapacious, and extravagant, ... ...han a great rabble of squint-minded fellows, dissembling and counter- feit saints, demure lookers, hypocrites, pretended zealots, tough friars, buskin... ...cred college, in the space of very few years you should be sure to see the saints much thicker in the roll, more numerous, wonder-working and mirific,... ...e happiness and felicity which the good God hath prepared for his faithful saints and elect in the other life and state of immortality. T urn out of t... ...lly poised. But what harm, in the devil’s name, have these poor devils the Capuchins and Minims done unto him? Are not these beggarly devils sufficien... ...hence! I dare pawn my credit on it, that no Jacobin, Cordelier, Carmelite, Capuchin, Theatin, or Minim will bestow any personal presence at his interm... ...that came spooning before the wind; they were full of Dominicans, Jesuits, Capuchins, Hermits, Austins, Bernardins, Egnatins, Celestins, Theatins, Ama...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...the astonished eye; of pilfering Candle-snuffers, Thief-valets, disfrocked Capuchins, and so many Heberts, Henriots, Ronsins, Rossignols, let us, as l... ...t Merlin from Thionville, hot Bazire, Attor- neys both; Chabot, disfrocked Capuchin, skilful in agio. Law- yer Lacroix, who wore once as subaltern the... ...with kisses on each cheek: your iron Hand- cuffs are disputed as Relics of Saints; the Brest Society indeed can have one portion, which it will beat i... ...in the Feuillants Terrace, whither is no ingate, then in the Garden of the Capuchins, as near as we could get. National Assembly has adjourned till th... ...s so is it done to them. Sainte-Guillotine, meseems, is worse than the old Saints of Superstition; a man-devouring Saint? Clootz, still with an air of...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...ed thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days and image-worship, we have as it were been the man that made t... ...to the nine- teenth century Simeon the Stylite, the Thebais, and the first Capuchins. 19 Emerson The priestcraft of the East and West, of the Magian,... ...ices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised; and that a com- pensation is to be made to th... ...n) is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child. Nevertheless, it awak- ens a deep... ...o record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us. The saints and demigods whom his- tory worships we are constrained to accept wi... ...tealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal? Saints are sad, be- cause they behold sin (even when they speculate), from ...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...n school. She initiated him into the mystical writings of those abstracted saints, and she engaged him in the study of alchemy, which served at once t... ...whole speech, but especially the last part, with the tone and gesture of a Capuchin; for, as he was a Catholic, he might have had abundant opportunity... ...was a ticklish business. As, how- ever, they gave him no peace, he began a Capuchinade on the spot, more comical than ever, perhaps, for the very reas... ... with the will of nature. We had driven out through the Allerheiligen (All Saints) gate, and had soon left Hanau behind us, after which we reached sce... ...riving upwards, and furnished with cano- pies to shelter the images of the saints, and how at last every rib, every boss, seems like a flower-head and...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...gard to the popular vice. They are bits for calves, with which neither the saints whom we hear speak so highly of themselves, nor the philosophers, no... ...mon did of old? will you lay aside the joys of your disease, your garters, capuchin, muffler, as he in his cups is said to have secretly torn off his ...

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...rdinary people, his great interests were not forgot- ten by those guardian saints who were so anxious to shower down on his head all manner of tempora... ...nying convert. It was not in him to change his very sleek black coat for a Capuchin’s filthy cassock, nor his pleasant parsonage for some dirty hole i...

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