Writings, Volume 9Houghton Mifflin, 1907 |
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... appealing to his memory had a paralyzing effect , and in that moment he was conscious of nothing but helplessness . Ignorant as Tessa was , the pity stirred in her by his blank look taught her to say , - " Never mind ; you are a ...
... appealing to his memory had a paralyzing effect , and in that moment he was conscious of nothing but helplessness . Ignorant as Tessa was , the pity stirred in her by his blank look taught her to say , - " Never mind ; you are a ...
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... appeal to me , Niccolò , " said Bernardo Rucellai , with a formal dignity , in amusing contrast with Ridolfi's curt and pithy ease , " I may take this opportunity of saying that , while my wishes are partly determined by long - standing ...
... appeal to me , Niccolò , " said Bernardo Rucellai , with a formal dignity , in amusing contrast with Ridolfi's curt and pithy ease , " I may take this opportunity of saying that , while my wishes are partly determined by long - standing ...
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... appeal towards Bernardo Rucellai , who said at once , - " Good man , what is your business ? What is the important declaration that you have to make ? " " Messer Bernardo Rucellai , I wish you and your honourable friends to know in what ...
... appeal towards Bernardo Rucellai , who said at once , - " Good man , what is your business ? What is the important declaration that you have to make ? " " Messer Bernardo Rucellai , I wish you and your honourable friends to know in what ...
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... appeal ; “ and I will recommend you , my daughter , to the Brother who is with me . You desire to put yourself under guidance , and to learn that wis- dom which has been hitherto as foolishness to you . A chief gate of that wisdom is ...
... appeal ; “ and I will recommend you , my daughter , to the Brother who is with me . You desire to put yourself under guidance , and to learn that wis- dom which has been hitherto as foolishness to you . A chief gate of that wisdom is ...
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... appeal or of friendliness . She was glad enough to pass through the open door on her right hand and be led by the fraternal hose - vender to an upstairs window , where a stout woman with three children , all in the plain garb of ...
... appeal or of friendliness . She was glad enough to pass through the open door on her right hand and be led by the fraternal hose - vender to an upstairs window , where a stout woman with three children , all in the plain garb of ...
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Page 267 - The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola — the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended, and where the sacredness of rebellion began. To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments in life when the soul must dare to act on its own warrant, not only without external law to appeal to, but in the face of a law which is not unarmed with Divine lightnings...
Page 422 - But therefore he may the more fitly be called a martyr by his fellow men to all time. For power rose against him not because of his sins, but because of his greatness — not because he sought to deceive the world, but because he sought to make it noble. And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony: not only the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow where he could only say, "I count as...
Page 371 - ... of the prison. The struggle now was, who should get first in the stream that rushed up the narrow street to see the Prophet carried back in ignominy to the Piazza where he had braved it yesterday — who should be in the best place for reaching his ear with insult, nay, if possible, for smiting him and kicking him. This was not difficult for some of the armed Compagnacci who were not prevented from mixing themselves with the guards. When Savonarola felt himself dragged and pushed along in the...
Page 87 - Yes," said Giannozzo Pucci, laying his hand on Tito's shoulder, " the fact is, Tito mio, you can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself, for I am convinced that Ulysses often made himself disagreeable. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. And there is not a soul in Florence who could undertake a business like this journey to Eome, for example, with the same safety that you can.
Page 112 - I did not suppose he was a malefactor. I meant, that if he were a malefactor, your place would be in the prison beside him. My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You may say, 'I will forsake my husband,' but you cannot cease to be a wife.
Page 322 - Slowly at first, then faster and faster, that fatal demand had been swelling in Savonarola's ear, provoking a response, outwardly in the declaration that at the fitting time the miracle would come ; inwardly in the faith — not unwavering, for what faith is so ? — • that if the need for...