Writings, Volume 9Houghton Mifflin, 1907 |
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... sort of place he wanted . He spoke to the old woman ; but it was not till he got close to her and shouted in her ear that he succeeded in making her understand his want of a lodging and his readiness to pay for it . At first he could ...
... sort of place he wanted . He spoke to the old woman ; but it was not till he got close to her and shouted in her ear that he succeeded in making her understand his want of a lodging and his readiness to pay for it . At first he could ...
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... sort of face has he ? " said Tito , his heart beginning to beat strangely . He was so haunted by the thought of Baldassarre , that it was already he whom he saw in imagination sitting on the straw not many yards from him . " Fetch your ...
... sort of face has he ? " said Tito , his heart beginning to beat strangely . He was so haunted by the thought of Baldassarre , that it was already he whom he saw in imagination sitting on the straw not many yards from him . " Fetch your ...
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... sort of mad consciousness that he was a solitary pulse of just rage in a world filled with defiant base- ness . He had clutched and unsheathed his dagger , and for a long while had been feeling its edge , his mind narrowed to one image ...
... sort of mad consciousness that he was a solitary pulse of just rage in a world filled with defiant base- ness . He had clutched and unsheathed his dagger , and for a long while had been feeling its edge , his mind narrowed to one image ...
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... sort of po- litical activity which the troubled public life of Florence was likely enough to find occasion for . But the fresh dread of Baldassarre , waked in the same moment , had lain like an immoveable rocky obstruction across that ...
... sort of po- litical activity which the troubled public life of Florence was likely enough to find occasion for . But the fresh dread of Baldassarre , waked in the same moment , had lain like an immoveable rocky obstruction across that ...
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... sort of govern- ment they must have in order to promote that good from " Choose whatever is best for all " to " Choose the Great Council , " and " the Great Council is the will of God . " - To Savonarola these were as good as identical ...
... sort of govern- ment they must have in order to promote that good from " Choose whatever is best for all " to " Choose the Great Council , " and " the Great Council is the will of God . " - To Savonarola these were as good as identical ...
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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...