Romola: Impressions of Theophrastus SuchJ. B. Alden, 1883 - Florence (Italy) |
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... perhaps , and shaken his head dubiously , as he heard simple folk talk of a Pope Angelico , who was to come by and by and bring in a new order of things , to purify the Church from simony , and the lives of the clergy from scandal a ...
... perhaps , and shaken his head dubiously , as he heard simple folk talk of a Pope Angelico , who was to come by and by and bring in a new order of things , to purify the Church from simony , and the lives of the clergy from scandal a ...
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... perhaps , says fond imagination , be very spot to which the Fesulean ancestors of the Florentines de- scended from their high fastness to traffic with the rustic pop- ulation of the valley , had not been shunned as a place of re ...
... perhaps , says fond imagination , be very spot to which the Fesulean ancestors of the Florentines de- scended from their high fastness to traffic with the rustic pop- ulation of the valley , had not been shunned as a place of re ...
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... perhaps , was weary after her labor in the morn- ing twilight in preparation for her walk to market from some castello three or four miles off , for she seemed to have gone to sleep in that half - standing , half - leaning posture ...
... perhaps , was weary after her labor in the morn- ing twilight in preparation for her walk to market from some castello three or four miles off , for she seemed to have gone to sleep in that half - standing , half - leaning posture ...
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... perhaps too bold in admiring . " " Va va ! be off , every one of you , and stay in purgatory till I pay to get you out , will you ? " said Monna Ghita , fiercely , elbowing Nello , and leading forward her mule so as to compel the ...
... perhaps too bold in admiring . " " Va va ! be off , every one of you , and stay in purgatory till I pay to get you out , will you ? " said Monna Ghita , fiercely , elbowing Nello , and leading forward her mule so as to compel the ...
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... perhaps ob structed by a little doubt as to the effect on my appearance . " " Behold yourself in this mirror , then ; it is a Venetian mirror from Murano , and the true nosce teipsum , as I have named it , compared with which the finest ...
... perhaps ob structed by a little doubt as to the effect on my appearance . " " Behold yourself in this mirror , then ; it is a Venetian mirror from Murano , and the true nosce teipsum , as I have named it , compared with which the finest ...
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Popular passages
Page 147 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 147 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 194 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 433 - 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 23 - To my father's mind the noisy teachers of revolutionary doctrine were, to speak mildly, a variable mixture of the fool and the scoundrel ; the welfare of the nation lay in a strong Government which could maintain order ; and I was accustomed to hear him utter the word ' Government' in a tone that charged it with awe, and made it part of my effective religion, in contrast with the word
Page 5 - The great rivercourses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history — hunger and labor, seed-time and harvest, love and death.
Page 466 - His faith wavered, but not his speech : it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow.
Page 506 - He is perhaps the same old man who appeared at supper in my gardens," said Bernardo Rucellai, one of the Eight " I had forgotten him. I thought he had died in prison. But there is no knowing the truth now." "Who shall put his finger on the work of justice and say,
Page 335 - And that is your wisdom ! To be as the dead whose eyes are closed, and whose ear is deaf to the work of God that has been since their time. What has your dead wisdom done for you, my daughter? It has left you without a heart for the...
Page 97 - Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. The contaminating effect of deeds often lies less in the commission than in the consequent adjustment of our desires — the enlistment of our self-interest on the side of falsity ; as, on the other hand, the purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.