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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...ght a ticket in the Chinchon station and boarded a bus. All bus terminals in cities under a million people had cement floors and were dark and dirty l... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... ...norant that more missiles were coming. "Let others die but not me; let other cities perish but not ours" was a dominant thought in everyone's head. It... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...a for some weed if you are living in Albany like there ainﾁOt drugs in other cities." "DonﾁOt know anybody else," she said. "Just the Candyman." Her... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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...mation desired. They also made use of Aramaic, which was a spoken language in ancient Persia. The Book of Zohar also uses foreign (Greek) words that ... ... was a spoken language in ancient Persia. The Book of Zohar also uses foreign (Greek) words that were used very freely in Israel, so we, like the Kab... ...ou will see that it is written in Aramaic. Aramaic was the spoken language in ancient Persia and the everyday lan- guage of Mesopotamia. Therefore, t... ...he language that was then the most prevalent. At that time, Israel was under Greek occupation, which is why there are quite a few Greek words in th... ...e, even though the writers of the Kabbalah wrote in Ara- maic, Hebrew and some Greek. There are also Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the ... ...are also Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the middle ages wrote in ancient French. Again, a language is only an outer dressing to help con... ...s every year, out of hundreds who come during the year to lectures in various cities and to the Bnei Baruch center. That shows that anyone can come ... .... Even today in many families in Europe, husbands and wives work in different cities and meet only on weekends. The will to receive (egoism) will gr...

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......................................................... 381 CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS .............................................................. ..................................... 400 CHAPTER LII OF THE PARSIMONY OF THE ANCIENTS...................................................................... ...rent from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with un... ...er addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the Coll... ... really formidable? Or perhaps he was of the same way of thinking with the Greek poet, of whom Cicero reports this saying: “I do not desire to die; bu... ..., “Surely not; water is the best.” “Ah, yes,” he returned, “doubtless so;—(Greek phrase)—.” He had now become, icy- cold at his extremities, even to h... ... of marching in practice with his na- tion, who had neither tilled fields, cities, nor houses to de- fend, or to fear the enemy should make any advant... ...e plague, the smallpox, and sore eyes, that run through whole families and cities:— “Dum spectant oculi laesos, laeduntur et ipsi; Multaque ... ...n produced so admirable effects. They used to go, it is said, to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but...

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...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ...ork. It was a long passage, containing some very useful illustrations of a Greek idiom; useful I call them, because four years after- wards, when I ha... ...four years after- wards, when I had made great advances in my knowledge of Greek, they so appeared to me. 16 But then, being scarcely seven years old... ... knew even then by name the Aoristus Primus, as a respectable tense in the Greek language. It (or shall we say he?) was known to the whole Christian w... .... Why should I? there being nothing to suggest the points in which the two cities differed, but only the single one in which they agreed, viz., the du... ...igious height of the houses in Rome, which much transcended that of modern cities. On this last point I will translate a remark- able sentence from th... ...to shine upon the Irish metropolis. The “season,” as it is called in great cities, was over; unfortunately the last season that was ever destined to i...

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...s, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be... ...stinguished for my clas- sical attainments, especially for my knowledge of Greek. At 9 Thomas de Quincey thirteen I wrote Greek with ease; and at fif... ...teen my com- mand of that language was so great that I not only com- posed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could converse in Greek fluently and with... ...nally to that of a respectable scholar at the head of a great school on an ancient founda- tion. This man had been appointed to his situation by— Coll... ... not been happy. On the evening before I left—for ever, I grieved when the ancient and lofty schoolroom resounded with the evening service, performed ... ...as a study. At half after three I rose, and gazed with deep emotion at the ancient towers of—-, “drest in earliest light,” and beginning to crimson wi... ...t upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantas- tic imagery of the brain, cities and temples beyond the art of Phidias and Praxiteles—beyond the sple... ...f my dreams were in- deed chiefly architectural; and I beheld such pomp of cities and palaces as was never yet beheld by the waking eye unless in the ...

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...on of a mine of results. … Taylor led him into political economy, into the Greek and Latin accents, into antiquities, Roman roads, old castles, the or... ...irty-five years back, Mr. Waterton, a distinguished coun- try gentleman of ancient family in Northumberland, pub- licly mounted and rode in top-boots ... ...ost-office servants, and summoned to draw up, the great ancestral names of cities known to his- tory through a thousand years—Lincoln, Winchester, Por... ...radise, the man falls by his own choice; again, by infinite iteration, the ancient earth groans to Heaven, through her secret caves, over the weakness... ...—leading right across the bottomless gulf. Under this eminent man, whom in Greek I cognominated Cyclops Diphrélates (Cy- clops the Charioteer), I, and... ...ster, with its vast cincture of populous rural districts, was called up by ancient usage to the tribunal of Lilliputian Lancaster. To break up this ol... ...th England, or who (being English) are yet unacquainted with the cathedral cities of England, it may be right to mention that the graves within-side t... ... the soil; fairies mark its solitude. As surely as the wolf retires before cities does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed vic... ...- 42 11 THE WHOLE PAGAN PANTHEON: i.e. all the gods put together; from the Greek Pantheion, a temple dedi- cated to all the gods. 43 2 SEVEN ATMOSPHER...

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...e subjects investigated. Before beginning a critical study of the writings of Sextus Empiricus, and the light which they throw on the development of Greek Scepticism, it is necessary to make ourselves somewhat familiar with the environment in which he lived and wrote. We shall thus be able to comprehend more fully the standpoint from which he regarded philosophical questi...

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...STANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus... ...LEXANDRA STREET PREFACE The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the Eng... ... prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been ... ...ven by both Fabricius and Bekker. References to Diogenes Laertius and other ancient works have been carefully verified. The principal modern authors... ...e that he was not named Empiricus for that reason. There is one instance in ancient writings where Empiricus is known as a simple proper name. [1] ... ...lexandria and Rome, that he must have resided at some time in each of these cities. [1] Adv. Math. A. 246; Hyp. I. 152; Hyp. III. 211, 214. [2] Haa... ...oks of Sextus Empiricus furnish us with the best and fullest presentation of ancient Scepticism which has been preserved to modern times, and give Se...

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...SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her ... ... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ... "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sap... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...he most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. F... ...the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of other days, the mother of us all, love, pulsing in ... ..., storm, heat, cold, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We nev...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble s...

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...CT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hi... ...te battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendere... ...e reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of ... ...the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon!” “Stand up, Isaac, and hearken to me,” sai... ...siness with him. Isaac at once replaced on the table the untasted glass of Greek wine which he had just raised to his lips, and saying hastily to his ... ...thou hast been, to the license of courts and of camps, and the luxuries of cities; and now I bethink me, Sir Sluggard, that when the chari- table keep... ... XXXII. T rust me each state must have its policies: Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters; Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk, Keeps... ...aid Malvoisin apart to Mont- Fitchet, “were it well directed—but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.” The Judges had now been two h...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospect...

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...QUE NOTES by Robert Louis Stevenson EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ANCIENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estua... ... a pride in their old home. Venice, it has been said, differs from another cities in the sentiment which she inspires. The rest may have admirers; she... ...nently Gothic, and all the more so since she has set herself off with some Greek airs, and erected classic temples on her crags. In a word, and above ... ...f the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe. Egyptian and Greek temples, Venetian palaces and Gothic spires, are huddled one over ano... ... a change of domicile and dweller, as was never excelled in the history of cities: the cobbler succeeded the earl; the beggar ensconced himself by the... ...ounger suburbs. It grew, under the law that regulates the growth of walled cities in precarious situations, not in extent, but in height and density. ... ...or is this the only memo- rial that the pavement keeps of former days. The ancient burying-ground of Edinburgh lay behind St. Giles’s Church, running ...

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...of Scripture in order to acknowledge the mere dreams of your brains! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heretics and godless schismatics, for you presume upon your figments alone against the clear Scriptures of God. Wash yourself of that, men!”...

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...ani, a Dominican hailing from Milan, who taught theology in various Italian cities, wrote a number of controversial works, and died in 1528. The tit... ...ee magpies are addressing me, the first in good Latin, the second in better Greek, the third in purest Hebrew. ... ...ic Encyclopedia (15 vols.), IV, 650. 19 Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, was accused of atheism by his contemporaries because o... ...y are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks, 47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans... ...s. Maurice Bévenot, S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Writers.) 50 infanti, a child under the age of seven ... ...romises of God from the beginning of the world; indeed, whatever value those ancient promises possessed was altogether derived from this new promise ... ...me, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal. She has none to comfort her; all her friends ... ...ed a sacrament of the New Law and of the church alone. The marriages of the ancients were no less sacred than are ours, nor are those of unbelievers...

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...s, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style ...

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...natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin... ... as at this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanis... ...ce of velvet and satin, embroidered with fine rib- bon, in the shape of an ancient vase, the lid of which exhaled a thousand superfine odours. Immedia... ...ary. Thinking of you, I wished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Maste... ...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...eror Ahasuerus, as is written in the master-book, for Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, as if to say the only book. The mouse promised to delive... ...s into this field of Venus, she would there transmute it into the grain of cities, and this demon would swallow it like a strawberry. And a thousand o... ...e, my gallant rider—everything rides!’ And then I saw, as a thick fog, the cities of the earth, where by a special gift I perceived each one coupled w...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...y one should imagine I am not in earnest, I desire him to reflect that the ancients (to say the least of them) had as much genius as we: and that to t... ...ll that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients; and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest charac... ...ore they who say our thoughts are not our own, be- cause they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like ... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ...ies, dispeopled air and floods, The lonely lords of empty wilds and woods: Cities laid waste, they storm’d the dens and caves, (For wiser brutes were ... ...e. The fields are ravish’d 41 from the industrious swains, From men their cities, and from gods their fanes: The levell’d towns with weeds lie cover’... ...mples rise, 54 the beauteous works of Peace. I see, I see, where two fair cities bend Their ample bow, a new Whitehall ascend! There mighty nations s...

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...e-tete, borne on men’s shoul- ders, like a copper Portent, ‘traversing the cities of the South. ’—What phantasms, squalid-horrid, shaking their dirk a... ... was more his part to do so. Brawny Danton is in the breach, as of stormed Cities and Nations; amid the Sweep of Tenth-of-August cannon, the rustle of... ...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...ing centre of a France fallen wholly into maddest disarrangement. From all cities, hamlets, from the utmost ends of this France with its Twenty-five m... ...e envelop this present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Di... ...de Paris (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 318).) Nay there is one death-doer, of the ancient Meot sort, who, with effort, has done even less and worse: slain a ... ...the tools and emblems of their crafts; among which we notice a Plough, and ancient Baucis and Philemon seated on it, drawn by their children. Many- vo... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi...

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...reat Poseidon’s sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes off the waves, the King of Crete Held lofty commune... ..., and, God bless him! thro’ him I’ve learnt to love a whole nation.”’ The ancient man paused, winking dim. XXIV A curious look, half woeful, was seen... ...ve upon a mortal lease. I cannot take the woman at her worth! Where is the ancient wealth wherewith I clothed Our human nakedness, and could endow Wit... ...n’s topmost tower, Ilion’s fierce prophetic flower Cried the coming of the Greek! Black in Hades sits the hour. IV Eyeing phantoms of the Past, Folded... ...n’s topmost tower, Ilion’s fierce prophetic flower Cried the coming of the Greek! Black in Hades sits the hour. X Still upon her sunless soul Gleams t... ... the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. THE STAR ... ...rs for the blind. Not where the troubled passions toss the mind, In turbid cities, can the key be bare. It hangs for those who hither thither fare, Cl... ...he haunts of the beak and the claw 207 As plain as the land of bread, But Cities and martial States, Whither soon the youth veered his theme, Were im... ...s hurled, And she pictorially attacked. A duel hugeous. T ragic? Ho! The cities, not the mountains, blow Such bladders; in their shapes confessed An...

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...et on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates. Of Cities in the South full of heats and jealousies; which will end in crossed... ...vil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—much to the disad- vant... ... Hunger, as we have remarked, can hardly fail. The Provinces, the Southern Cities feel it in their turn; and what it brings: Exasperation, preternatur... ...ettle; not theatre-controver- sies, but a world-controversy: there, in the ancient pigtail mode, or with modern Brutus’ heads, do well-frizzed logi- c... ... wished it. Beloved Brothers! Liberty, one might fear, is actually, as the ancient wise men said, of Heaven. On this Earth, where, thinks the enlighte... ...lately, for instance, with bared bosom and death-defiant eye, as far on as Greek Missolonghi; and, strange enough, old slumbering Hellas was resuscita... ...tood not with one side or with the other, nor in the ever-vexed jarring of Greek with Greek at all,—how unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participat... ... Human Species at his heels. Swedes, Spaniards, Polacks; Turks, Chaldeans, Greeks, dwellers in Mesopotamia: behold them all; they have come to claim p... ...ansciently discern from the distance, is ‘carried in tri- umph through the cities of the South.’ (Deux Amis vii. (Paris, 1797), pp. 59-71.) What thing...

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...t of a Lady which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non residence. S... ...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ... thatched and timbered, past ale houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick ... ... was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather... ...ink we ought to be as elegant as possible. Look at the luxury of our western cities; I’ve seen nothing over here to compare with it. I hope you’ll nev... ...departure for San Remo and had worked her way down, as she said, through the cities of North Italy, reached the banks of the Arno about the middle 23... ...ence. It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; whic... ...ts brilliant correspondent a fresher field for her genius than the mouldering cities of Europe, and Henrietta was cheered on her way by a promise from ...

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...7 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers pose yourself to be a ruler over ten cities. You strip your- self by such a step of all remaining consolations a... ... stood by their bedside in the morning when they woke; and all about their ancient cities, where they bought and sold, or where they piped and wrestle... ...y their bedside in the morning when they woke; and all about their ancient cities, where they bought and sold, or where they piped and wrestled, there... ...careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals. Our offspring would no more think of co... ...some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in a... ...th and memory assail him. And even if mankind shall go on, founding heroic cities, practising heroic virtues, ris- ing steadily from strength to stren... ...a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that 77 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers ... ...do all our fiddling, and hold domestic tea-parties at the arbour door. The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so t... ...lling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen. And the Greeks, in so figuring, uttered the last word of human ex- perience. To cer...

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...f Him of Avon.” The Comet asserts that “J’s ‘Life of Goody Twoshoes’ is a [Greek text omitted], a noble and en- during monument to the fame of that ad... ... Pinto?” I said. 13 Thackeray “Many,” says he. “I have apartments in many cities. I lock dem up, and do not carry mosh logish.” I then remembered tha... ...m. And he passed into the cloister, and then into the garden where lie the ancient dead. And he came 27 Thackeray to the wicket, which Brother Jerome...

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...many, or in Scotland; and the contrast between the cultivation in the free cities and the savagery of the independent barons made the former the more ... ...before the taming and bringing into order of the empire, when the Imperial cities were in their greatest splendour, the last free nobles in course of ... ...f the mouse-trap barons. He is hoping to form a league of us free imperial cities with all the more reasonable and honest nobles, to preserve the peac... ...s brother, fencing 182 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest in the hall, learning Greek with the chaplain, reading or sing- ing to his mother, or carving gra... ... vassals of the two houses an obligation that perhaps might override their ancient hatred; and the Baron and his mother gladly submitted to the arrang... ...d, if the former state of things be at an end, the less he takes after the ancient stock the better. But I am an old man now, Stine, though thou look’... ... wait until such time as the much- needed General Council may proclaim the ancient truth, and enable us to avouch it without disunion. Into schism I w...