...; porcelain tureens, Dresden plates, translucent cups from china, old salt-cellars, comfit-boxes belonging to feudal times. A carved ivory ship sped f... ... gnawing pain of hunger. The spectacle of so much existence, individual or national, to which these pledges bore witness, ended by numbing his senses—... ...found an indescribable pleasure in an infinite variety of ugliness. A salt-cellar from Benvenuto Cellini’s workshop carried him back to the Re- naissa... ... the monk, devoid alike of cares and pleasures; and from the depths of his cell he looked out upon the meadows, woods, and vineyards of his convent. P... ...y school, and all strong intellects ever since time began. So now Royalist-national ideas must be inculcated, by proving to us that it is far better t... ...rimitive rule, more or less skilfully managed. For example, in remote ages national strength lay in theocracy, the priest held both sword and censer; ... ... the intellec- tual prowess that method and toil have brought him, at such crises of our youth! Innumerable painfully vivid thoughts pierced me like b... ...t I was enacting, and while my distracting disorder was at its height, two crises super- vened; each brought me keen and abundant pangs. The first cam... ...iotic wish that grocers should be left to their counters, statesmen to the management of public business, advocates to the Palais de Justice, and peer...