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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts,...

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...HE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CONDITION of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been suffic... ... other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever ri- valled this astonishing metropolis in... ...s not been repeated; neither has Cæsar. Ubi Cæsar, ibi Roma—was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence. And the same maxim may be translated into a wider mean... ...4 The Cæsars ished and expired together. The illimitable attributes of the Roman prince, boundless and comprehensive as the univer- sal air,—like that... ...and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world, but so per- fectly did she lay the garden of the world in ev... ...for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days;* the total penalty is paid down at once. As respected the ha... ... dependents, both in and out of Rome, equal in numbers to a nation. In the provinces, and in distant kingdoms, he pursued the same schemes. Every wher... ...th the force of a thunderbolt, that the revolt had extended to the Spanish provinces, and was headed by Galba. He fainted upon hearing this; and falli... ...patch their persons; the senate, by poison at a great banquet; the Gaulish provinces, by delivering them up for pillage to the army; the city, by agai...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS................................................ ... equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER I... ...MANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 1... ...arles Dickens 7 A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you ... ...s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left ha... ... cient Britons, fifty five years before the birth of Our Saviour, when the Romans, under their A Child’s Histroy of England 12 great General, Julius ... ...e men who are Knights of mine, and with them you shall go to win back the provinces belong ing to you, of which your uncle, the usurping King of Eng...

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...pare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall...

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..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...n leaning on the parapet and the cathedral lay the “Terrain” (such was the ancient name of this barren spot), still strewn with the ruins of the Archi... ... d’Arcole, the cathedral, and the quai de la Cite. This spot, the heart of ancient Paris, is the loneliest and most melancholy of regions. The waters ... ...ointment, like other obscure journalists, to a government situation in the provinces, where his liberal ideas, conflicting with the necessities of the... ...ll were framed in silvery white hair. Her gown could only be called by its ancient name of “fourreau,” so tightly was she sheathed within it, after th... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ...t the matter. “How old is she?” he began to ask himself; and a vision of a romance in the rue Chanoinesse came to him. “She certainly has an air of no... ...in which he spoke of sacred principles. From the time of his return to the provinces this political manoeuvrer had an intimacy with a young man, overw... ... about to take place, the victory of Wagram rendered the conspiracy in the provinces powerless. “This expectation of exciting civil war in Brittany, L...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no dep...

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...CTIONS BEGIN WITH A BUSTLE BEFORE BEGINNING TO DESCRIBE an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not th... ...r present at the intimate conversations which went on in the salon. In the provinces there are two sorts of intimate conversation,—one, which is held ... ... and his coats were always too large for him. He had what is called in the provinces dignity; that is to say, he was stiffly erect and pompously dull ... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ... money.” “And,” continued Ernestine, “she has selected for the hero of her romance—” “Oh!” interrupted Madame Mollot, “an old man of fifty!— fie!” “Ho... ...he family of 171 Balzac Sallenauve is, after that of Cinq-Cygne, the most ancient fam- ily in the department of the Aube. I ought to add that the exh... ...amily of to-day children have taken the place of the household gods of the ancients, and whoever does not share this worship is not a morose and sour ... ...nded, and has never since been taken up.” “Are you sure of what you say?” “Ancient authors, Strabo and others, all mention these 248 The Deputy of Ar...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a ...

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...he original edition. The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some re lation between us... ...tion to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; an... ... mounting on my body. At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, h... ...he carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance. I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way ... ... conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman em perors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus’s c... ...n war, to cowards; the wis est counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman vir tue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chas ... ...nd able pastors to propagate Christianity; their cau tion in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the moth...

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...als like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing o...

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..., with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, — the city of the Hague, the capital of the ... ... a most vio- lent affection for the Stadtholderate, which had been abol- ished for ever in Holland by the “Perpetual Edict” forced by John de Witt upo... ...flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people saw the personification of the Republic in the two stern figures of the brothers De... ...whose material power Holland had been made to feel in that marvellous campaign on the Rhine, which, in the space of three months, had laid the power o... ...h would not have been very favourable to the person in question. “What difference is there between the figure of the con- queror and that of the pirat... ...Mynheer van Baerle’s tulips; and his beds, pits, drying-rooms, and drawers of bulbs were visited, as the galleries and libraries of Alexandria were by... ...Waal and the Meuse, — V an Baerle’s letter would have fallen into his hands and not the nurse’s: in which event the poor prisoner, like the 97 Dumas ... ...supported by four men, who were from time to time relieved by fresh relays, — even as the bearers of Mother Cybele used to take turn and turn about at...

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...erial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espoused: And hu...

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...our excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Du... ... blood, mine eyes no tears. Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both; Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer: And are the cities, that I got ... ...ud prelate, in thy face I see thy fury: if I longer stay, We shall begin our ancient bickerings. Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone, I prophe... ...t him outlive, and die a violent death.’ Why, this is just ‘Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse .’ Well, to the rest: ‘Tell me what fate awaits the... ... false witness to condemn me, Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt; The ancient proverb will be well effected: ‘A staff is quickly found to beat ... ...at this my death may never be forgot! Great men oft die by vile bezonians: A Roman sworder and banditto slave Murder’d sweet Tully; Brutus’ bastard ha...

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...side you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese. You have an Eugenie, already beautiful... ...oor creatures had never, before their marriage, read a tale, or heard of a romance; their very drawings were of figures whose anatomy would have been ... ... Lady Dudley. In the eyes of many Parisian women, Felix, a sort of hero of romance, owed much of his success to the evil that was said of him. Madame ... ...s two opposite effects, the symbols of which exist in two grand figures of ancient slavery, Epictetus and Spartacus,—hatred and evil feelings on the o... ...once before appeared at the great and noble Theatre-Francais in a splendid romantic play of the style of “Pinto,”—a pe- riod when the classic reigned ... ...akes sure of a dinner while the patricians talk, the actress went into the provinces to cut faggots for her celebrated man while he was employed in hu... ...y a jug of water with a towel laid upon it, and a bit of common soap. T wo ancient hats hung to their respective nails, near which also hung the self-... ...for him.” “ Ah!” cried Florine, “didn’t I kill myself body and soul in the provinces to get him money,—I, who’d have cut my hand off to serve him? But...

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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... ...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... ...d himself to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry wit... ...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... ...range with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the learned god cal... ... the legions of Caucquemarres, because emperors disliked them and also the Romans according to that sulky fellow Tacitus. He re- jected the Pechrochol... ...happy, reconnoitering his immense empire of mustard, coun- tries of sugar, provinces of ham, duchies of raisins, counties of chitterlings, and baronie...

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...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...us came to him, that then he did, indeed, see twelve. Hence it is that the Romans, in their divinations from birds, chiefly regard the 42 V olume One... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ... Caius Marcius, consuls to succeed him: and when they were gone into their provinces, lit upon books concerning the religious observances, where he fo... ...ote expressly of it to Scipio Nasica and Caius Marcius; who, leaving their provinces and without delay returning to Rome, laid down their magistracy. ... ...lations. Now it happened that Lucius being consular governor of one of the provinces, the youth setting himself down by him, as he used to do, among o...

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...etters, L.M. This L.M. had directed the people of the house to purchase an ancient cock, and to have him boiled forthwith, in order that Spinosa might... ....e., diving,] “they discoursed of many things relating to the Baths of the Ancients, and the Origine of Springs. When they had in this manner passed a... ...hen, what wandering thoughts I may have had of at- tempting the life of an ancient ewe, of a superannuated hen, and such “small deer,” are locked up i... ... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...to pieces in the desert. Heavens, gentle- men, what a sublime picture! The Roman legions—the wil- derness—Jerusalem in the distance—an army of murdere... ... her own house. The outposts of France, as one may call the great frontier provinces, were of all localities the most devoted to the Flours de Lys. To... ... her attention upon myself. The victory which we were carrying down to the provinces on this occasion was the imperfect one of T alavera. I told her t...

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...tangle them from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwel... ...n them the foremost parts in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fer... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...ese stories may not be true; but that they should have been current in the ancient world shows what was the char- acter of the man of whom they were t... ... a serious matter, but he could not come himself against them, because his provinces in Armenia and Persia had refused their tribute, and he had to go... ...the seven years’ war by which Julius Caesar added Gaul to the 71 Yo n g e provinces claimed by Rome, and when he visited Britain; such conquests are ... ...animals were imported for these cruel sports, and the governors of distant provinces made it a duty to collect troops of lions, elephants, ostriches, ...

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...tellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a str... ...served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans fight- ing unsuccessfully , and being put to flight, he was wounded ... ... death and destruction to all, when it was no small piece of service for a Roman soldier to keep his ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook... ...g from the first disorder, proceeded to share out the several commands and provinces, they made Eumenes governor of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, and al... ... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...referred a law that Pompey should have all the forces of Lucullus, and the provinces under his government, together with Bithynia, which was under the... ...s than to constitute one absolute monarch of all the Roman empire. For the provinces which seemed to be exempt from his commission by the former decre...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...ne par honeur.’ And lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the Khelawt, o... ...e speaks of France as if that name, of course, covered the same states and provinces that it now covers. But take away from the France of this day the...

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...is descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shor... ...the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roman hand” in every sen- tence of this brilliant but most unsatisfactory a... ...composure and serenity. He took the sacrament according to the form of the Roman Catholic Church; but merely, he said, because it “looked right.” A li... ...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 ... ...Then see them broke with toils, or sunk in ease, Or infamous for plunder’d provinces. Oh wealth ill-fated! which no act of fame E’er taught to shine, ... ...ld: Their country’s wealth our mightier misers drain, Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main; The rest, some farm the poor-box, some the pews; Some ...

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...excursions resolved themselves ulti- mately into a journey through several provinces,—a jour- ney which had its dull moments (as one may defy any jour... ...turn to the capital. I must not speak, however, as if I had discovered the provinces. They were discovered, or at least re-vealed by BaIzac, if by any... ...g side,—the side that comes out in the “Contes Drolatiques,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re-... ... is contradictory. If the tenement se- lected for this honour could not be ancient and embrowned, it should at least have been detached. There is a ch... ... barrack which is ornamented with a rugged mediaeval tower, a relic of the ancient fortifications, known to the Tourangeaux of today as the Tour de Gu... ...re de Tours. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone... ...present, indeed, when once you have caught a glimpse of the stout, serious Romanesque tower,—which is not high, but strong,— you feel that the buildin... ...brick is pointed out to you by your cabman (if you happen to drive) as the romantic abode of a superstitious king, and where a strong odor of pig- sti... ...iliar and inter- mittent hospitality which a few weeks spent in the French provinces teaches you to regard as the highest attain- able form of accommo...

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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... ...ys: Book the First what is left of the Temple of Concord, along the ‘Forum Romanum’, of which the fall seems quite recent, like that of some huge moun... ... out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise the place again. It often happened that in diggin... ...al, with difficulty speaks.”—Æneid, iii. 306.] Besides the examples of the Roman lady, who died for joy to see her son safe returned from the defeat o... ... ex- cepted, they go pretty far towards kingship; for do but look into the provinces remote from court, as Brittany for ex- ample; take notice of the ...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ... Dorsetshire and Wilts. These great roads were farmed out as so many Roman provinces amongst pro-consuls. Yes, but with a difference, you will say, in... ...ipated in the local follies, prejudices, super- stitions, of their several provinces and cities, except where any of these happened to be too conspicu... ...n or in Pagan newspapers, to bridge over the chasms that divided different provinces. A devout Jew, already possessed by the purest idea of the Suprem...

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...ne would rid him of Arminius by poison: this was the most potent enemy the Romans had, who had defeated them so ignominiously under Varus, and who alo... ... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ...ent in his own house, imprisoned and killed him. Justice required that the Romans should have satisfaction for this offence; but there was a difficult... ... but the profit of the augmentation of the public revenue, that served the Roman Senate for a pretence to the foul conclu- sion I am going to relate, ... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ... man on the head when reduced to such a necessity; and in another of their provinces, they all forsook him to shift for himself as well as he could. T... ... the neighbourhood had been sev- eral months amused; then the neighbouring provinces be- gan to take it up, and to run thither in great companies of a... ...to penetrate, the officers deputed by the prince to visit the state of his provinces, as they punish those who behave themselves ill in their charge, ...

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...sible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, however, upon any romantic rigor in constructing this idea, and abiding by the ordinary stand... ...n a saintly scheme of ethics; but where is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to... ... there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus.” And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact ... ...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 ... ... very slightly altered, are found in France also, as well as Spain, and in provinces of France that have no connection at all with Spain. 19 “Strulbr... ...What conflux issuing forth or entering in; Pretors, proconsuls, to their provinces Hasting, or on return in robes of state; Lictors and rods, th... ...le of central- ization, have been for us either evaded or neutralized. The provinces, to the very farthest nook of these “nook-shotten” islands, react...