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...hether the whistle was blowing for twelve or for one o’clock. He hoped the former. Early that morning he had decided to make a long excursion through ... ...s determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were b... ...hese things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagination, these dissensions made the on... ...ught up against the railroad, that stubborn iron barrier against which his romance shattered itself to froth and disintegrated, flying spume. His hear... ... loon to the restaurant, and from the restaurant to the Plaza, relics of a former generation, standing for a different or- der of things, absolutely i... ... churchman in ap- pearance than when Vanamee and Presley had seen him on a former occasion. They were now in the cloister garden. The place was charmi... ... Well, with you it is different,” he answered. “But there are a great many Catholics in the county—some on your ranch. And so few come to the Mission....

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...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...he ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented th... ...s, as declared in Paganism and in Christianity,—both probably true. In the former, man is the essential enemy of the gods, though sheltered by some co... ...ference, in favor of our own times, is, that they are now felt to be true. Formerly, the truths were seen, but not felt: they were inoperative truths,... ...y—called upon to answer new impeachments, and to seek for new assistances. Formerly another was an- swerable for his belief; if that were wrong, it wa... ...elief in God; how then? Is this belief special to Prot- estants? Are Roman Catholics, are those of the Greek, the Armenian, and other Christian church... ...the Ponteficii, as the more learned of our fathers always called the Roman Catholics, Mariolatry; they pay undue honors, say we, to the Virgin. They i...

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........... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN...

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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... ... make war. His father was feeble, and worn out, and could not resist as in former times. He fell ill, and gave up the struggle, saying he would grant ... ...en saw that harm was intended, and went with all her other children to her former refuge in the sanctuary at Westminster; nor would she leave it when ... ...e king, died while yet a boy, and Anne, his wife, not long after. Then his former staunch friend, the Duke of Buckingham, began to feel that though he... ...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...

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... but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not following my own inclinations, but, to the best of my ability...

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...nts of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros... ...h me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and like sm... ...spise the jewel which she has rescued from the mud, but she adds it to her former treasures. For I yield to those who are greater and more eloquent th... ...oquent than myself, who, kindled with generous ardour, have endeavoured by Roman eloquence to smooth the jarring elements of their tongue, if they hav... ...t I have got together all that I could find as well from the annals of the Romans as from the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Hieronymus, Eusebius, ... ...e-eminently distinguished among the rest, the Thames and the Severn, which formerly, like the two arms of Britain, bore the ships employed in the conv... ...e, bishop of Milan, was then eminent for his skill in the dog- mata of the Catholics. V alentinianus and Theodosius reigned eight years. At that time ...

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... of civilization make a path for it- self from the latter to enlighten the former coun- tries. All this was effected by religion. Religion alone could... ...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 —... ... were unfortunate enough to become the weaker party. The greediness of the former for the property of the church, gave no reason to expect indulgence;... ... the other, remained irresolute and useless, equally unable to destroy the former or to command the latter. What had the Empire to look for from a pri...

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... God, I began to question my courteous host. I opened with that which good Catholics have more than once made to Hugue- nots. “My dear sir,” said I, “... ...enius and knowledge, and to whom Descartes had dedicated his Philosophical Romance. She was then retired to the Hague, where she received these Friend... ...aste their native country, in the same manner as the Guelphs and Ghibelins formerly did theirs. It was absolutely necessary for both parties to call i... ...BERS of the English Parliament are fond of comparing themselves to the old Romans. Not long since Mr. Shippen opened a speech in the House of Commons ... ... to me quite opposite in character, with regard both to good and evil. The Romans never knew the dreadful folly of religious wars, an abomination rese... ...e.” Methinks our sagacious Thuanus does not give in to such fustian, which formerly was looked upon as sublime, but in this age is justly called nonse... ...egard to these new philosophers is, that the latter was a dreamer, and the former a sage. Very few people in England read Descartes, whose works indee...

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...ass, in their relations among themselves. Where, on the other hand, a class, formerly ascendant, has lost its ascendency, or where its ascendency is u... ...e, it is true, requires a much more cautious exercise of compulsion than the former. T o make any one an swerable for doing evil to others, is the ru... ... ish individuals, called the public. The most intoler ant of churches, the Roman Catholic Church, even at the canonization of a saint, admits, and l... ...es, and in certain cases, as in those of the early Christians and of the Re formers, those who think with Dr. Johnson believe it to have been the mos... ...sonable person can doubt that Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman empire. It spread, and became pre dominant, because the persecutio... ...nded from an obscure sect of the despised He brews into the religion of the Roman empire. When their enemies said, “See how these Christians love one... ...ngs, On Liberty — Mill 101 and of the attempt to enforce them against non Catholics? Yet, if mankind are justified in interfer ing with each other...

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.................................................... 37 THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE....................................................................... ...pollo, and Apollo comes to her in the shape of a serpent, or the like. The Roman emperors, following the example of Augustus, claimed the title of God... ...y of the Holy Ghost is a later interpolation bor- rowed from the Greek and Roman imperial tradition. But experience shows that simultaneous faith in t... ...ng a heresy as the discarding of transubstantiation in the Mass was to the Catholics of the XVI century. JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS Jesus entered as a m... ...t. The Baptist himself is not convinced; for at quite a late period in his former disciple’s career he sends two young men to ask Jesus is he really t...

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...ink it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the bridge) towards the Thames. 1. Bill... ... the coronation and burial of the Kings of England. Upon this spot is said formerly to have stood a temple of Apollo, which was thrown down by an eart... ...of brass and marble, with this epitaph: Here lies Henry VII. of that name, formerly King of England, son of Edmund, Earl of Richmond, who, ascending t... ...seen the statues of two giants, said to have assisted the English when the Romans made war upon them: Corinius of Britain, and Gogmagog of Albion. Ben... ...orinius of Britain, and Gogmagog of Albion. Beneath upon a table the *This romantic inscription probably alluded to Philip II., who wooed the Queen af... ...n old square tower, called Mirefleur, supposed to be that mentioned in the romance of “Amadis de Gaul;” and join- ing to it a plain, where knights and... ...name of Recusant then began first to be known to the world; until then the Catholics were no more than Church-Papists,* but now, commanded by the Pope...

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... protected against Vigi- lance Societies and Municipalities and common in- formers in a country where a large section of the com- munity still believe... ...be great poems, or edifying sermons, or important documents, or charm- ing romances: our tribal citizens know nothing about that and do not want to kn... ... worthy and pious people. They are at present con- demned by the Greek and Roman Catholic censor- ships as unfit for general reading. A censorship of ... ...pation and the admis- sion of Jews to parliament needed no toleration from Catholics and Jews: the toleration they needed was that of the people who r... ...of the Bible, which was always in the hands of our regi- cides; but as the Roman Catholic Church does not hesitate to accept that consequence of the c... ...d Chamberlain’s censorship which affects the author’s choice of sub- ject. Formerly very little heed was given in England to the susceptibilities of f... ...ould have a chance of adoption. Municipal control of the variety theatres (formerly called music halls) has been very far from liberal, except in the ... ...to the most cherished opinions of the Unionists. A law to compel the Roman Catholics to attend service at St. Paul’s, or the Liberals to attend the me...

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...EMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PRO... ...ER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ................................................................. ...undance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to de- pend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter. Among the savage na... ... and impartially with every sort of in- dustry. Since the down-fall of the Roman empire, the policy of Eu- rope has been more favourable to arts, manu... ...mmonly more distinguished by their superi- ority in the latter than in the former. Their lands are in general better cultivated, and having more labou... ...e of wood; a country smith in every sort of work that is made of iron. The former is not only a carpenter, but a joiner, a cabinet-maker, and even a c... ..., and established there the four governments of New En- gland. The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Marylan... ... that classical learning, which, though at first principally cultivated by catholics and Ital- ians, happened to come into fashion much about the same...

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...fore judged expedient to rewrite the whole, though, whenever possible, the former Curate’s work has been respected and repeated; but he paid little at... ...al of these urns were deposited in the Hartley Museum, Southampton. Of the Roman times we know nothing but that part of the great Roman road between C... ...art of the great Roman road between Caer Gwent (or V enta Belgarum, as the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be trac... ...ourse of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards of the maniples; but alas! on being sent, in 1891, to be ... ...rd, measuring in length, from the said churchyard and the rectorial house, formerly belonging to the said church, to- wards the south, twenty-seven pe... ...the hedge and ditch between the said space and the garden of the aforesaid former rectory on the west, towards the east, sixteen perches and a half, w... ... eventful history. From the Welleses, it passed to the Smythes, also Roman Catholics. W alter Smythe, the first of these, was second son of Sir John S...

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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... ...ublic authori ties. But in this larger use of the term, as well as in the former narrow one, Order expresses rather one of the conditions of governme... ...degree of those agencies is required for the latter pur pose than for the former. What, for example, are the qualities in the citizens indi vidually... ... only a somewhat less degree of them will, on the average, suffice for the former purpose than for the latter. T o pass now from the mental to the out... ...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... ... 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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... very least, among the signals of a great change in modern literature. The former directed men’s at- tention with a new force to the picturesque effec... ...re of fire, at which no soul could be warmed. Literature had sunk from its former vocation: it no longer held the mirror up to Nature; no longer refle... ...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 ... ...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;... ... most distinct, it must be a very agreeable and re-animating task to treat former creations as new matter, and work them up into a kind of Last Part, ... ...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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...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... ...f Asbies were not as valuable as those of Tugton? And if they were so, the former estate must have been worth between three and four hundred pounds.” ... ...nt with the birth; of which suppositions the latter is improbable, and the former, considering the situation of Worcester, impossible. Strange it is, ... ...cuments, a story so significant and so eloquent to the intelligent, should formerly have been dismissed without notice of any kind, and even now, afte... ...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 ...

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...ntly in any one place or rigidly disciplined to one set of conditions. The former attachment to the soil ceases to be an advantage. The human spirit h... ...in the high Alps or along the Riviera. England is rap- idly developing the former Irish grievance of an absentee propertied class. It is only now by t... ...here lies before me now a crumpled card on which are the notes I made of a former discussion of this very issue, a discussion between a number of prom... ... 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... ...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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...on going to Newport—led thither by the lat- ter reputation rather than the former. As we were still in the early part of September, we expected to fin... ... 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... ...est seen aright. Close to the cataract, exactly at the spot from whence in former days the Table Rock used to project from the land over the boiling c... ...ecessity be beautiful. I have such a feel- ing, but not now so strongly as formerly. Such an idea should be kept for use in Europe, and never brought ... ... 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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...nce, and lay aside, as far as the treachery of the reason will permit, all former meanings attached to the word righteousness. What is right is that f... ...the using as the dainties that he took, be- twixt sleep and waking, in his former callous and somnambulous submission to wealth. The true Bohemian, a ... ...ginally laid it out’ [intended to lay it out] ‘entirely for the benefit of Catholics, and even so not wisely; but after a long, plain talk, he admit- ... ...u have done me a service; it would have been a theft.’ There are many (not Catholics merely) who require their heroes and saints to be infallible; to ... ...tting any kindness that was done to him with some qualifying souve- nir of former harshness, and gloating over any injury, mis- take, or folly, which ... ...ue elixir for all vital spir- its, these are what they seek alike in their romantic enter- prises and their unromantic dissipations. When they are tak... ...nightmares– is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Greeks and Romans, too, are reserved as sort of general- utility men, to do all the di... ...mself would defend the lines in which we are told how Laocoon ‘Revealed to Roman crowds, now Christian grown, 114 Robert Louis Stevenson That Pagan a...

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...and lightning at black midnight by the banks of a flooded river, which was formerly our comparison for terrible situa- tions, it was when those two me... ...d herself in society. She would sit on the top of Estlemont towers—as they formerly spelt it—all day and half the night in midwinter, often, looking f... ...ia remarked on their having met nobody. It had a serious meaning for them. Formerly they were proud of out- stripping the busy population of the mine,... ... 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... ...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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...exity, and he leapt out of his tangle into the happy open spaces where the romantic things of life are as natural as the sun that rises and sets. Ther... ...t, of course,’ Patrick spoke as he thought. ‘Madame Dugue is a Catholic of Catholics, and the most honourable of women.’ ‘That I’ll believe; and wasn’... ...ry, unless you had them fast by their spinning fancy. They called it being romantic. It was the ante-chamber of madness. Mad, was the word for them. Y... ...axon title for them. No, they are Cymry, Cambrians! They have forgiven the Romans. Saxon and Norman are still their enemies. If you stir their hearts ... ...dull red fire prolonged the half-day above the mountain strongholds of the former owners of the soil, upon which prince and bard and priest, and grapp... ...s the whole affair. You saw him. Grave as an owl, the dead contrary of his former self!’ ‘I thought I heard you approve him,’ said Philip. ‘And I do. ... ...divine—the feminine hyper-aethereally. Like the first John Mattock, it was formerly of, and yet by dint of sturdy energy, above the people. They learn...

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... what nobody can possibly feel tempted to call anything else. I said in my former lecture that we learn most about a thing when we view it under a mic... ...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 ... ... [45] I refer to Mr. Horatio W. Dresser and Mr. Henry Wood, especially the former. Mr. Dresser’s works are published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York ... ...natural remedy. On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural,... ...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... ...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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...e workings of nature; in 22 A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part Two the former case, from the various narratives about the given subject which occu... ...ifted with infallibility in the inter- pretation of Scripture, such as the Roman Catholics boast. (75) But as we can never be perfectly sure, either o... ...with infallibility in the inter- pretation of Scripture, such as the Roman Catholics boast. (75) But as we can never be perfectly sure, either of such... ...d from them, we may accept the latter while retaining our doubts about the former. (78) No one has ever been able to change the meaning of a word in o... ...) than that he bowed himself at the head of his bed, especially as for the former reading no substitution of letters is required. (115) In this exampl... ...hould not be deterred by the fact that there have been heretic and impious Roman pontiffs; for among the Hebrew high-priests of old there were also he... ...f the Hebrew high- priests telling in confirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiffs to interpret religion, it would rather tend to establish ind...

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...eheld themselves in the costumes of their youth. Elderly ladies thought of former conquests; but the younger men were asking each other why the aged A... ...a colander, honeycombed with the shadows of the dints, hollowed out like a Roman mask. It set all the laws of anatomy at defiance. Close inspection fa... ...se abysses, you find nothing but a German at the bottom. Both friends were Catholics. They went to Mass and per- formed the duties of religion togethe... ...3 Balzac Mephistopheles is blended with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating elem... ...ttics of the Hotel du Rhin, in the Rue du Mail, the property of one Graff, formerly Gideon Brunner’s head- waiter. Fritz found a situation as clerk in... .... “ Ah! M. Berthier, you here!” he said, holding out a hand to his host of former days. “We have not had the pleasure of seeing you at dinner lately; ... ...ssion in a Frenchified German seemed to Cecile to be in the highest degree romantic; the descendant of the Virlaz was a second Werther in her eyes—whe...

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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... ...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... ...s weeps, wishing that his life might be all youth. He wondered whom of his former comrades he should meet at the Setch. He reckoned up how many had al... ...e others as it was to Bulba; by means of it he had revenged himself on the former Koschevoi. Moreover, Kirdyanga was an old com- rade, and had been wi... ...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... ...he victim then set at liberty. In 52 Gogol short, the Cossacks paid their former debts in coin of full weight. The abbot of one monastery, on hearing... ...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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... PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN..............

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................................................. 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ..................................................................... ...myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five romances s... ...st. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott il leste... ...ttle wearisome. Ursus and his wolf are pleasant enough companions; but the former is nearly as much an abstract type as the latter. There is a beginni... ... family greeted him with a “mean, servile compliance,” which increased his former disgust. Jean was not less compliant; a second time the poor girl su... ...goes, “I have almost ru- ined one source, the principal one, indeed, of my former happiness – the eternal propensity I always had to fall in love. My ... ...duction to a book* in which he exposes the hypocritical de- mocracy of the Catholics under the League, steps aside for a moment to stigmatise the hypo...

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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... ...nally returned to our town only three years before Alyosha’ s arrival. His former acquaintances found him looking terribly aged, although he was by no... ...n. He behaved not exactly with more dignity but with more effrontery . The former buffoon showed an insolent pro- pensity for making buffoons of other... ...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 ... ...ll was really incredible. For forty or fifty years past, from the times of former elders, no visitors had entered that cell without feelings of the pr... ...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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...ifferent and distinct from those other retired gentlemen-in-waiting he had formerly despised: they were empty, stupid, contented fellows, satisfied wi... ...s of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and neve... ...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... ...minated. The count, laughing, nudged the blushing Sonya and pointed to her former adorer. “Do you recognize him?” said he. “And where has he sprung fr...

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...h I thought a good omen) into the apartment from which the recipient of my former visit had emerged on that occasion. It was a large shabby parlor, wi... ...melt to- gether.” My eccentric private errand became a part of the general romance and the general glory—I felt even a mystic companionship, a moral f... ...landes- tine, in their relations. I on the other hand had hatched a little romance according to which she was the daughter of an artist, a painter or ... ...visitors to Europe. When Americans went abroad in 1820 there was something romantic, almost heroic in it, as compared with the perpetual ferryings of ... ...ere asleep; she had always done that, musing and dozing; but at such times formerly she gave at intervals some small sign of life, of interest, liking... ...forever. There was something affecting in the good faith of this sketch of former social glories; the picnic at the Lido had remained vivid through th... ...urano. It appeared from these circumstances that the Misses Bordereau were Catholics, a discovery I had never made, as the old woman could not go to c...

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...n for malpractice, he has to struggle against the inevitable result of his former pretences to infi- nite knowledge and unerring skill. He has taught ... ...u- lity precisely as the apparitions at Lourdes excited the credu- lity of Roman Catholics. Suppose it were ascertained that every child in the world ... ...y precisely as the apparitions at Lourdes excited the credu- lity of Roman Catholics. Suppose it were ascertained that every child in the world could ... ... there was a time when some trust could be placed in this distinction. The Roman Catholic Church still maintains, with what it must permit me to call ... ...posed, im- mune from smallpox, he ascribed the cases of immunity which had formerly misled him to a disease of the horse, which, per- haps because we ... ...can be produced by persuading the public that everybody caught the disease formerly. Thus if a disease is one which normally attacks fifteen per cent ... ...tely very hard to persuade people to admit so much and thereby destroy the romance of doctoring) we may guess that the medical profession, like the ot...

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...ger away with all his might. The child let go at last and retreated to his former distance. Alyosha’s finger had been badly bitten to the bone, close ... ... him that their knees almost touched. “Nikolay Ilyitch Snegiryov, sir, formerly a captain in the Russian infantry, put to shame for his vices, but... ... 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... ...tion that took place then, or whether he added to it his notes of parts of former conversations with his teacher, I cannot determine. In his account, ...

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.................................................. 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ...................................................................... ...heir air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...hard hap to meet in the valley with Apollyon, yet I must tell you, that in former times men have met with angels here; have found pearls here; and hav... ...ble, many prints of famous members, and a mural tablet to the virtues of a former secretary. Here a member can warm himself and loaf and read; here, i... ... corridor, under the mural tablet that records the virtues of Macbean, the former secretary . We would often smile at that ineloquent memorial and tho... ...e never con- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t beli...

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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... ...le Lupton him- self remembered something of my father having told him of a former affair in America. They would not let Jaquetta and me go to the fune... ...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... ...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... ...rancis Dayman? Only in his case it was gilded! Dayman knew nothing of this former affair. The world was forgetting it, and if Hester knew it, she kept... ...ured’s danger was counting for nothing between them, and I turned from the former reticence to the bereaved tigress style, and burst out, “And are we ...

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... 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... ...e Soldiers grew fainter down the road, the M.P . gradually returned to his former position. Chrisfield and Andrews had slipped by on the other side, a... ...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... ...any’s quarters, the theme came to him which had come to him long ago, in a former incarnation it seemed, when he was smearing windows with soap from a...

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...figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions; and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze about the Lost Tribes wh... ...g the city, but without disturbance, old La Marmora being a commander of a Roman sternness. With the return of quiet, and the reopening of the univer-... ...onardo’s engineering and anatomical drawings a perpetual feast; and of the former he spoke even with emo- tion. Nothing indeed annoyed Fleeming more t... ...re notable, as the girl really derived from the Enfields; whose high-flown romantic temper, I wish I could find space to illustrate. She was but seven... ...ard Dr. – expound in a remarkable way a prophecy of St. Paul’s about Roman Catholics, which mutatis mutandis would do very well for Protestants in som... ...enuous activity. Nor was this all. A trifling operation was to restore his former lightness of foot; and it was a renovated youth that was to set fort... ... Thomson, F . R. S., LL D., etc. etc. IN THE BEGINNING of the year 1859 my former colleague (the first British University Professor of Engineering), L...

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...d 2366 and 2380), were let to Reeside and Avery at $1300 per annum for the former and $1500 for the latter, for the term of four years, to commence on... ...ere are two such Whigs on this floor (Colonel Haskell and Major James) The former fought as a colonel by the side of Colonel Baker at Cerro Gordo, and... ...recludes the idea of embezzlement; that the balances due the department of former quarters had been only about twenty-five dollars; and that owing to ... ...y commenced by the President. And even General Taylor himself, the noblest Roman of them all, has declared that as a citizen, and particularly as a so... ... will read “all men are created equal, except negroes and for- eigners and Catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall pre- 195 The Writings of Abraha...

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..., 59 -- CHAPTER XVII ? SAN DIEGO?A DESERTION?SAN PEDRO AGAIN?BEATING UP -- COAST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? C...

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...ST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 67 JUAN—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 7... ...s sextant which was out of order. This land fall settled the matter, and the former instrument was condemned, and, becoming still worse, was never ... ...ous for the day, that I might see more nearly, and perhaps tread upon, this romantic, I may almost say, classic island. When all hands were call... ... its still beauty, and I gave a parting look, and bid farewell, to the most romantic spot of earth that my eyes had ever seen. I did then, and have e... ...ce piece of work. It requires some seamanship to do it, and come to at your former moorings, without letting go another anchor. Captain Wilson was ... .... Consequently, the Americans and English who intend to remain here become Catholics, to a man; the current phrase among them beings—‘‘A man must le... ..., and they would not be allowed to remain, were it not that they become good Catholics, and by marrying natives, and bringing up their children as ... ...ndible in California. It was kept by a Yankee, a one eyed man, who belonged formerly to Fall River, came out to the Pacific in a - 59 - Two Years Bef... ...Catholicism’s spreading in New England; Yankees can’t afford the time to be Catholics. - 69 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana American...

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...was poor, and having long been out of society had lost her 10 War & Peace former influential connections. She had now come to Petersburg to procure a... ...old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the group where the vic... ...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’... ... his face, in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former af- fected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has t... ...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... ... 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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...im,—except the girl herself. He would find no other friend so generous, so romantic, so unworldly as the Duchess had been. It was clear to him that La... ... most pernicious courtship,—if she had encouraged it,—a repetition of that romantic folly by which she had so nearly brought herself to shipwreck her ... ...uth, amount to three of four,— of English gentlemen who had come up from a former Carlist war, bearing the title of colonel, without any con- tradicti... ...ten to you patiently and encour- age you, and will not even think of those former vows. ’ ‘The former vows were foolish. ’ ‘Oh—of course. ’ ‘You at le... ...ough I most truly love the girl I hope to marry, yet my heart goes back to former things and opens itself to past regrets. ’ ‘I know it all, ’ she whi... ... had been married. There was an absence in it of 85 Anthony Trollope that romance which, though he had never experienced it in his own life, was alwa... ...e House of Commons. I had assisted humbly in the emancipation of the Roman Catholics, and have learned by the legislative troubles of just half a cent...

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...otten the hand-writ- ing – as is like enough – you will find the name of a former correspondent (don’t know how to spell that word) at the end. I have... ...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... ... (3) The Evictions. (4) Emigration. (5) Present State. V. RELIGION (1) The Catholics, Episcopals, and Kirk, and Soc. Prop. Christ. Knowledge. (2) The ... ...ok; keep the jelly for the last, you know, as you would often recommend in former days, so now you can take your own medicine. I am very sorry to hear... ... by Otto: is it a spoon or a spoilt horn? Momentous, if the latter; if the former, a spoon to dip much praise and pudding, and to give, I do think, mu...

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...amber where the dead man lay. At that period, when threats of invasion had formerly stirred up the military fire of us Islanders, the great Mel, as if... ...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... ...by night.’ Evan, with little gratification at the meeting, fell into their former comradeship; tickled by a recollection of his old schoolfellow’s Ind... ...t quiet little country town; and while Evan and—the waggoner consulted the former with regard to the chances of procuring beds and sup- per, the latte... ...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...