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...e Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

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... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ... In the idol temples of Yucatan -- A battle with the natives -- Conversions to Catholicism -- A terrible slaughter of Indians -- Indian maidens distri... ...- A dearly bought victory -- A third desperate battle -- Cortez appeals to the religious fervor of his soldiers -- An overture for peace -- Cortez ord... ... and south of the equator 481- 492 CHAPTER XLVIII. A Dance by the King's Four Sisters. -- A battle between the natives -- Departure from Otaheite -- ... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...Tom Moore relates in his Lalla Rookh; and again, as the tear drops shed by the sisters of Phaëthon, the giddy youth who having received permission of ... ...a son of Erik, returned to Norway in 999, and finding his country converted to Catholicism, he also embraced the faith, after which he took a priest w... ...l us that this colony was provided with a priest named Jon, as a guide for its religious instruction, and who was murdered by Indians whom he had appr... ...for a grandson of Louis XIV; the latter, that Leopold I might place thereon an Austrian prince. The dying King had, it is said, made a will in favor o...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Hum...

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...583 The Undead and Human Laughter Pg 1585 The Undead and Vlad Pg 1587 The Religious Sale of Indulgences Pg 1589 Darwin’s Natural Selection and ... ...e constant of the speed of light as a holy Tabernacle, as some kind of sacred religious icon. The only reason that the speed of light is ‘constant’... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...ged thousands and millions of children… Take the cases of rape and sodomy Catholic Priests have been convicted of recently in America. Has this ... ...psyche that prevents them from being logical, or doing the right thing. If Catholic Priests have been convicted of so many rapes and sodomy charge... ...e an insane bubble of unreal fantasy. Your siblings, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, mother, father. etc… all plotting against each other and aga... ...gatherer.’ What caused WW1? The 1 st World War did not start because an Austrian archduke was assassinated by some nameless anarchist who was ... ...nated by some nameless anarchist who was fighting to free his Serbia from the Austrian Empire’s benevolent rule. That was only the excuse. All the...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publica... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsyl... ...URE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS Aes- thetic elements in religion—Contrast of Catholicism and Protestantism— Sacrifice and Confession— Prayer— Religion h... ... sexuality. It reminds one, so crudely is it often employed, of the famous Catholic taunt, that the Reformation may be best understood by remem- berin... ...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... ...me so good a monk that if any one asked him the number of his brothers and sisters, he had to reflect and count them over before replying. A Father as... ...their spiritual concomitants. “‘Live and let live,’” writes a clear-headed Austrian officer, “is no device for an army. Contempt for one’s own comrade... ...wn, And that all the men ever born are also my broth- ers and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.”[238] [238] ...

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...ecause they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...ps to make heroism’. Both tales were presented before them in their solemn religious tragedies, and the noble poetry in which they were recounted by t... ...ts. He had collected an army, and was come to take leave of his father and sisters; and at the same time to entreat his sisters to take care that, if ... ...er, and there preformed the regular rites. The Gauls, seeing that it was a religious cer- emony, let him pass through them untouched, and he re- turne... ...t burghers well knew their true position, and were aware that to admit the Austrian usurpation would expose their young men to be drawn upon for the D... ...s arising on account of the insulting exactions of toll and tribute in the Austrian border cities. A sharp war broke out, and the Swiss city of Lucern... ..., Philip II., who wished to be con- sidered as the prime champion of Roman Catholic Christendom, and who alone had the power of assisting him. The Duk... ...in the year 1631, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should hav...

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...f the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining ...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...oves and the angels for your nearest neighbors. I should not wonder if the Catholics were to make a saint of you, like your namesake of old; especiall... ...o had come joyfully for- ward to greet her friend. “You must not call me a Catholic. A Christian girl—even a daughter of the Puritans—may surely pay h... ...All that she would henceforth attempt and that most reverently, not to say religiously was to catch and reflect some of the glory which had been shed ... ...cture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. It strikes us that there is s... ...ly! I love you still! You were to me as a younger sister; yes, dearer than sisters of the same blood; for you and I were so lonely, Hilda, that the wh... ... ity—as a supernumerary finger, or an anomalous shape of feature, like the Austrian lip—is wont to show itself in a family after a very wayward fashio... ...a del Popolo, at one extremity of the course, and before the palace of the Austrian embassy, at the other, and by the column of Antoninus, midway betw...

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...lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Ta-r-... ...ielded, one would say); and preparing to besiege Verdun? Clairfait and his Austrians are encompassing Thionville; darkening the North. Not Metz-land n... ...Daughter with him, refusing to quit him. Why, O Cazotte, wouldst thou quit romancing, and Diable Amoureux, for such reality as this? Poor old M. de So... ..., and old wavering weakness rous- ing itself once more—O my brothers, O my sisters! The famed and named go; the nameless, if they have an accuser. Nec... ...King, with his sixty thou- sand, will beleaguer Verdun; and Clairfait and Austrians press deeper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty ... ... kind of genuine productive hope again. Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacq... ...owledges, thoughts and things, which the French have, suddenly plump down; Catholicism, Classicism, Sentimentalism, Can- nibalism: all isms that make ... ...teous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile- colour? By Nemesis and the Fatal Sisters, it is Jourdan Coupe- tete! Him they have clutched, in these martia... ...risti Day 1792, the whole world, and Sovereign Authority itself, walked in religious gala, with a quite devout air;—Butcher Legendre, supposed to be i...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...upon them. I hope I am not likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I ... ...hem. I hope I am not likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I have d... ... sanctity of all Priests and Friars; I do no more than many conscientious Catholics both abroad and at home. I have likened these Pictures to shadows... ... lorn surprise; and returning to my villa: the Villa Bagnerello (it sounds romantic, but Signor Bagnerello is a butcher hard by): have sufficient occu... ...out of this quarantine somehow or other, as he had to take part in a great religious procession in the afternoon. After this, he would come back, laug... ...iercely, we crossed it by a floating bridge of boats, and so came into the Austrian territory, and resumed our jour ney: through a country of which, ... ...tly what it was at first, and what it remains after many visits. It is not religiously im pressive or affecting. It is an immense edifice, with no on... ...s age, with a view to the next lottery; and the number of his brothers and sisters; and the age of his father and mother; and whether he has any moles...

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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... ...hich they all confess defeat, is, I suppose, the explanation of their miserable system. But they might see in the girls’ school at Tai-o-hae, under th... ...gotten delicacies. Pierre Loti may like to know that he is M. Aussel’s favourite author, and that his books are read in the fit scenery of Hatiheu bay... ...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... ...haps shyly thinking his own statuary result enough; and was al- together a pattern of the missionary layman. CHAPTER VIII—THE PORT OF ENTRY THE PORT—T... ...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... ... at the ceremony, which was primitively simple. The two Mrs. Stevensons and Mr. Osbourne, along with Paaaeua, his wife, and an adopted child of theirs... ... at Atuona, Paaaeua would have held himself bound to establish us upon his land, and to set apart young men for our service, and trees for our support...

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...e remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them,...

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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... ... education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth’ will show... ...out Beranger and Eustacie de Ribaumont being man and wife. Every ceremony, religious or domestic, that could render a marriage valid, was gone through... ...g to provide for the Chevalier’s disappointed heir in some commandery of a religious order of knighthood. The Baron’s wife was English. He had, when o... ...She was highly educated, and had been the friend of Margaret Roper and her sisters, often sharing their walks in the bright Chelsea garden. Indeed, th... ...lizabeth’s court, and such an atmosphere as that of Paris, where the Roman Catholic system was at that time showing more corruption than it has ever d... ...on Charles, and a triumphant, coquettish beauty, than a fat, good-humoured Austrian dame, always called Madame la Comtesse, because her German name wa... ...nging her tone to one of confidence, which the high-bred homeliness of her Austrian manner rendered inexpressibly engaging, she said, ‘I must apologiz...

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...with- out direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a “T ale of the Crusaders” w... ...of Chivalry and the Crusades,” who was not, it may be presumed, aware that romantic fiction naturally includes the power of such invention, which is i... ...ich he attributed to his ignorance of their taste; and assured them of his religious respect for their characters as ambassadors, and of his readiness... ...e Talisman sacrifice brought to the vaults of the palace of Istakhar seven sisters so beautiful that they seemed seven houris. These seven maidens wer... ...utward cave the Christian knight, though not without scruple, arising from religious reverence to the objects around, fastened up his horse, and arran... ... reverential devotion as uneasy as pos- sible. He read many prayers of the Catholic Church, and chanted, in a low but earnest voice, three of the peni... ...ly on his knee, he heard the sound of the lauds, or earliest office of the Catholic Church, sung by female voices, which united together in the perfor... ...with all the other Christian princes—with Philip of France, with that dull Austrian, with him of Montserrat, with the Hospitallers, with the T emplars... ... false law, I would aid him with my sword to drive this scum of French and Austrians from his dominions, and think Palestine as well ruled by him as w...

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...Talbot, of the Herbert blood, wife to the heir, was present with two young sisters-in-law, Lady Grace, daughter to the Earl, and Mary, daughter to the... ...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... ...ny 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 conform o... ...turned Mistress Jean. “Such a thing would be a miracle in a loyal Scottish Catholic’s wean, let alone an English heretic’s.” 124 Un... ...ew), she would be out of reach, and given up to influences, both moral and religious, which they deeply distrusted; also to a fate loom- ing in the fu... ...e who will wor- thily bear the sceptre, and make thee blessed at home. The Austrians make good husbands, I am told. Matthias or Albert would be a nobl... ...had a great compassion for them, deprived, as she said, of the alms of the religious houses, and flogged or branded if hunger forced them into beggary... ...ak thy word. I ask thee, if thou wert free to marry, if thou wouldst be an Austrian or Lorraine duchess, or content thee with an honest English youth ...

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...ne or other of the two Dukes, fifth of a little party, composed of the two sisters and the two husbands,—with a bell upon the table, in order to dispe... ...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... ...ought a duel against the Comtes de Rontzau, a Dane, and Schwartzenberg, an Austrian. Uzes gave himself up, but the Comte d’Albert did not do so for a ... ...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... ...s Confessor, who had been given to him by the Queen, and who was a zealous Austrian. Cardinal Portocarrero was charged with this duty, and he succeede... ...ut was of an impetuous spirit, and soon began to chafe under the yoke of a religious life. He 205 Saint-Simon determined, therefore, to set himself f... ...l laughed at this, we ad- mired the profound instruction of a discreet and religious King, who considered it better not to believe in God than to be a...

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...ish country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. T...

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... summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would no... ... clerk, address here. Taken sister’s girl, died last year, go to Europe, two sisters, quite independent.’ Over that my father and I have scarcely stop... ... is to one of my aunts. There there was a question as to whose the two other sisters were; they are probably two of my late aunt’s daughters. But who’... ... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ...vation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess, a princess. It would never have been su... ...entleman was seated in company with a young girl and two good sisters from a religious house. The room was, however, less sombre than our indications ... ... he had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The convent is a great institution; we... ...d, a collection of wax flowers under glass, and a series of en gravings from religious pictures on the walls. On the other occasion Isabel had thought...

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...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

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...is it necessary to furnish any detailed account of our author’s political, religious, and philosophic axioms and systems, his paradoxes and his errors... ...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... ...my mother’s brother, Gabriel Bernard, fell in love with one of my father’s sisters; she had no objection to the match, but made the marriage of his si... ...though more intolerable evil. I owed my preservation to one of my father’s sisters, an amiable and virtuous girl, who took the most tender care of me;... ...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... ... have pursued; but it should be observed that though M. de Pontverre was a religious man, he was not a virtuous one, but a bigot, who knew no virtue e... ...n to lament. The king, who was fond of appearing a zealous promoter of the Catholic faith, took her under his protection, and complimented her with a ... ...former faith, but no inclination to return to it. She not only died a good Catholic, but truly lived one; nay, I dare affirm (and I think I have had t... ...bruzzo, where he was secretly to stir up the people at the approach of the Austrians. In the absence of M. le Comte de Montaigu, who did not give hims...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine- wheels of a “pyrotechnic display,” would be em... ...lerk, address here. Taken sister’s girl, died last year, go to Europe, two sisters, quite inde- pendent. ’ Over that my father and I have scarcely sto... ...of a Lady of my aunts. Then there was a question as to whose the two other sisters were; they are probably two of my late aunt’s daughters. But who’s ... ...tion might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess, a princess. It would never have been supp... ...tleman was seated in company with a young girl and two good sisters from a religious house. The room was, however, less sombre than our indications ma... ...e had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The con- vent is a great institution; we...

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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... ...l tune those voices to some- thing less unlike your own.’ As he spoke, the sisters appeared in the full and conscious rustling of new lilac silk dress... ...he seemed discomfited to see her so quickly ready, and not grateful to his sisters, who hurried them by saying that Mr. Bowles would be gone out upon ... ...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, and a... ...ce of all goodness; but any visible acceptance of personal applications of religious teaching had not yet been accomplished. Gradually all cleared up ... ...rs, and was left to an unlim- ited appetite for books, chiefly poetry. Our religious instruc- tion was a nullity, and I am only surprised that the res... ...er pined away and died of grief. My daughter and granddaugh- ter go to the Catholic burying-ground at Hadminster on her fete day, to dress her grave w... ...ted Mr. Kendal as a dictionary, and his stores of Byzan- tine, Othman, and Austrian lore, chimed in with the per- ceptions of the General, who, going ...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ...ho recalled themselves to her remembrance by many presents. Several of her sisters, married to great wealth, took enough interest in Calyste to wish t... ...ht be rendered worthless. This human masterpiece of virtuous and noble and religious education, Calyste, might be destroyed; the happiness of his life... ...istences which cannot be judged like ordinary lives.” “My child,” said the religious Fanny, “nothing can excuse a woman for not conducting herself as ... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t... ... Madame des T ouches, and there she settled with the little girl and three sisters of her convent. The populace of Nantes, during the last days of the... ...d about the nostrils; very shrewd and clever, but supercilious. She has an Austrian mouth; the upper lip has more character than the lower, which drop...

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...sound sleep. The malicious Achille Pigoult had urged all present to listen religiously to the young orator, who was now floundering in his phrases and... ...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ... the pretty Madame de Rastignac offered him, “will you come with me to the Austrian ambassador’s?” “My dear fellow, I am too recently married not to g... .... But I like able men, and I will attend to your affair.” They reached the Austrian embassy. The Comte de Rastignac saw the minister of the interior i... ...ntre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely,—liberty of educ... ... year—he has ideas about it.” “What ideas?” asked Emile Blondet. “Oh! that religious works ought not to be delivered over to the judgment of critics, ... ... to change the character of my statue, and, at the present moment, the two sisters no longer resemble each other. Nevertheless, as I did not wish that...

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...er commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don?t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the occasion of making your friendship....

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...omp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman habit, waving his bronze baton on his broad-flanked brazen charger. W... ...f the 13 Thackeray time. Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or... ...ck which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan arch... ...en years’ classical education, had kept me at home with my dear thir- teen sisters, it is probable I should have liked this country of Attica, in sigh... ...olours, are moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the B... ...ard conduct was more touching, whose sincerity was more evident, and whose religious feeling seemed more deep, real, and reasonable. 109 Thackeray On... ...e it is impossible for us to comprehend the source and nature of the Roman Catholic devotion. I once went into a church at Rome at the request of a Ca... ...e. But I have never been able to edify myself with their devotion; and the religious outpourings of Lamartine and Chateaubriand, which we have all bee... ... at home, and his name is on the list of his club; and where his neglected sisters tremble to think that their Frederick is going about with a great b...

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...iness: yet did not go, the wound not proving poisoned. For his Majesty has religious faith; believes, at least in a Devil. And now a third peril; and ... ...s English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Catholicism—it was not till Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish... ...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ...n two opinions, is it not trying? He who would under- stand to what a pass Catholicism, and much else, had now got; and how the symbols of the Holiest... ...ium to the winter one. There are poutings and grudgings from the Sardinian Sisters-in-law (for the Princes too are wedded); little jealousies, which C... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...lances, shalt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,—pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, al... ... Tricolor Flag; victorious, or to be victorious, in the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world. Fauchet, we say, is the man for Te-De... ...mmand, might lie Counter-Revolution itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u...

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...er heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I be...

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...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... ...te or rumble like a town bull’s; it won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or... ...now,” she said, in her clear hard voice, “don’t you know that I’m an Irish Catholic?” 31 Ford Madox Ford V THOSE WORDS gave me the greatest relief th... ...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... ... 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 ... ...t did she enter another person’s house. For the rest of the time the seven sisters ran about in the neglected gardens between the unpruned espal- iers... ... 90 The Good Soldier He regarded her, certainly, as desirable amongst her sisters. He was obstinate to the extent of saying that if he could not have... ...ho had advised her about the affair with La Dolciquita, and the one or two religious, who had guided her through life. The Colonel’s wife was at that ... ...ided her through life. The Colonel’s wife was at that time in Madeira; the religious she now avoided. Her visitors’ book had seven hundred names in it...

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...nly busy causing him annoyance. Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and said: “Then I will go to my rooms. Y ou will let... ...“Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I have looked at it. T... ...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’... ...in some Swed- ish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and o... ...or me... I will tell you the truth, Andrew ... is Father’s way of treating religious sub- jects. I don’t understand how a man of his immense in- telle... ...mmander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred mile... ... offer him his daughter in an illegal marriage. The Spaniards, through the Catholic clergy, offer praise to God for their victory over the French on t... ...ver the French on the fourteenth of June, and the French, also through the Catholic clergy, offer praise because on that same fourteenth of June they ...

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...s, the more it conceals them; and for the very same reason: just as in the Roman amphitheatres, when they grew to the magnitude of mighty cities, (in ... ...s, could it have been said in a sufficient sense at that time that I was a religious man: yet, undoubtedly, I had all the foundations within me upon w... ...ne of unaffected piety; and thus far, at least, I might have been called a religious man, that in the simplic- ity of truth I could have exclaimed, ‘O... ... at stake upon their husbands’ safety, rarely indeed are able to take this Roman view of their duties. T o return to the narrative. Agnes had not, nor... ...r kept a hen-roost in such alarm as pussy kept the dormitory of the senior sisters; whilst the younger ladies were run off their legs by the eternal w... .... The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that... ...rom the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic king’s bis- cuit, as she had previously packed up far too little o... ...d women, 111 Thomas de Quincey (that now suddenly seemed all brothers and sisters,) cottages with children around them at play, that are so far below... ...orned the pavilion on the French frontier; the first objects which met the Austrian Archduch- ess on being hailed as Dauphiness, was a succession of t...

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.... She was maid of honor to the Queen Henrietta Maria; she early joined the Roman Church; her father, a weak man, following her not long after at Breda... ...r on public days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighb... ... was far from him to say that his Majesty’s Church was not a branch of the Catholic Church; upon which Father Holt used, 47 Thackeray according to hi... ...oper in the regiment: and he swore Harry to secrecy too, which vow the lad religiously kept, until he found that officers and privates were all taken ... ...r; not that any fault attaches to my lord, who is one of the best and most religious men in this king- dom.” And very likely she believed so. ’Tis str... ...e had it as an infant: it broke out in our house then; and when four of my sisters had it at home, two years before our marriage, I es- caped it, and ... ...s Grace, in which he hoped that as Don Scipio had formerly served with the Austrians against the French, ’twas to be hoped that his Excellency would n... ... Excellency would now declare himself against the French King, and for the Austrian in the war be- tween King Philip and King Charles. But his Excelle... ...man, with a wart upon her nose. But having been early taught a part of the Roman religion, he never had the horror of it that some Protestants have sh...