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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "...

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...alatin, July 22, 1520. The other work was the anonymous tract of a “certain Italian friar of Cremona,” who has only recently been identified as Isid... ...oro Isolani, a Dominican hailing from Milan, who taught theology in various Italian cities, wrote a number of controversial works, and died in 1528. ... ...ins lest I listen in vain to these “eminent teachers” 8 of mine. A certain Italian friar of Cremona has written a “Recantation of Martin Luther befo... ...tes his dedicatory epistle to the Son of God himself: so familiar are these saints with Christ who reigns in heaven! Here it seems three magpies are ... ...ulian the Apostate, August 7, 362. In a collection of legendary lives of the saints, compiled by Jacobus de Voragine (circa 1230–1298), it is related... ...), the most prominent English reformer before the Reformation and keenest of medieval critics of the doctrine of transubstantiation, was posthumously... ...estiones quarti libri sententiarum, quest. 6, E; folio cclxiv a. 60 Famous medieval textbook of theology, compiled circa 1150 by Peter Lombard (d. 1... ...ourth book treats of the sacraments in general. 61 The qualifies which, in medieval thought, were held to adhere to the invisible “substance,” and t... ... we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” If the saints may not deny their sin, how much more ought those who are guilty ...

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...about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oce... ...cocaineaddiction.com/history-of-cocaine.htm Columbus, Christopher Columbus was an Italian and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spa... ... Sardinia) as late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was... ...ts H. O. Wood and Frank Neumann from the original Mercalli scale, proposed in 1902 Italian seismologist Giuseppe Mercalli). It measures the impact ... ...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne... ....com/mvm/htm/bc/71721.htm Nightmare The word nightmare is the private name of a medieval female demon that attacked sleeping people. "Mare" mea... ...as been a Jewish symbol for a mere 400 years, though. It appears, for instance, on medieval cathedrals. The symbol in known in India as the Sri...

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...a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

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... the night before. After experiencing a visitation, worthy only of the mystic saints, he should have felt exhilarated, consumed in a state of reverie... ...American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papacy to an Italian. Cardinal Berini was the most obvious choice; he had lobbied, ... ...are, that the newly elected Pope was an unknown American Cardinal; the mostly Italian crowd stared at each other in disbelief. Later, when the othe... ...cally, almost all of them were fuzzy about the actual voting. The next day the Italian 8 J.Cross/Artemis newspapers ran bold headlines declaring... ...rious kinds and sizes. Absorbed with the scene, they hadn't noticed the huge, medieval castle looming in front of them. The castle was fit for a Shog...

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...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from ea... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...ekly open-air town markets to multi-day events combined with annual local saints festal celebrations. As pioneer printers spread out across Euro...

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... of their dream. The IMRO insignia - skull and crossbones - linked it firmly to the Italian Balckshirts and the Nazi brown ones. The IMRO has develo... ...f fascism, the Romanian, the Slovakian (Tiso) and the Hungarian (as opposed to the Italian and the Bulgarian) were atavistic, pagan, primal and rom... ...ted (to put it gently), it is clear that some assistance was provided by both lower Italian ranks and the IMRO. The actual murderer of the King was ... ... the wreath of martyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ... and all war casualties are treated by their countries or organizations as secular saints. Israeli soldiers (I have been one myself) are raised on ...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The wa... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from east... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...ekly open-air town markets to multi-day events combined with annual local saints festal celebrations. ...

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...lden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame for those ... ... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ... —―I understand that even in the Pope‘s backyard that 60% of the Italians don‘t go to confession. Is it because they aren‘t sinning like th... ... the contradictions in the scriptures and the unholiness of their warrior saints. They can rationalize the existence of evil with the plotting of dev... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ...970s Europeans worked about as many hours as Americans, today the French, Italian and Germans work about 1400 hours per working-age person per year ... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ...hey ‗mortify‘ their flesh by wearing a spiked celise on their legs, drawing blood and giving pain, as some Opus Dei members do. Some Catholic saints... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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...n we reach the utopian goal that has been the dream of the philosophers and saints who have preceded us. “But I want to see how religions tha... ... crime syndicates. Columbia is worse. And we certainly know a bit about the Italian and Sicilian mafias from the movies. Even the welfare paradise N... ... alike. We played the same sports and were in the same club at LA High, the Saints. The name wasn’t exactly appropriate but I guess girls’ mothers f... ...but I guess girls’ mothers felt safer knowing their daughters were out with saints.” 45 —“OK, love to meet a part of your past.” REAC... ...ivilized as “reactionary.” I would never have expected Ray to duplicate the Medieval approach to religion that the Polish and German popes have been ... ...r of experienced diplomats and bank directors. He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy ...

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...ot love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as a culturally non-violent Nation… They are now on... ...w one of the most peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter,... ...ch millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they would cave in and pay the money w... ...he colored glass refracting natural sunlight and using it to glorify Christian Saints, Christian Myths, er Truths. The masses not allowed to go out... ...here, and accomplishing something.’ This is nothing more than a modernized medieval oath of loyalty. Every peasant on Earth for thousands of yea... ...e part of our past is organically connected to our present. For example: The Medieval ritual of anointing Kings with sacred oil is over 2,500 years... ...½ of Europe to the same squalor, poverty and terrorization as the rest of his medieval empire of starving slaves. The American empire was not crea... ...hout the superstitions and taboos and customs and traditions and holy days and saints days and teachings of the Catholic church which had been their ... ...n. Look at how the Catholic Church corrupted the teachings of its own fucking Saints for god’s sake. All of the humble, poor martyrs who starved an...

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... mercenaries against the Christian enemies of Christian Byzantium - the Serbs, the Italians, and the Bulgarians. Orhan became the principal ally of... ...ween one's professional conscience and one's propensity to live the good life. Only saints win such battles. Whatever UNMIK is - it is decidedly not... ...ures Why America is Hated In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover, ... ...II. Just War or a Just War? In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover,... ...hen ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prevail? Enter the medieval doctrine of "Just War" (justum bellum, or, more precise...

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... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...raction of these are likely to communicate with us. But, if this is true, to quote Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: "where are they?". Ferm...

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... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...raction of these are likely to communicate with us. But, if this is true, to quote Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: "where are they?". Ferm...

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...ing on the pavement. ‘Fifth f oor. Apartment 521. It’s yours,’ she said in Italian, before jumping into the taxi. The old woman watched her speed awa... ... Sleeping Celebrity of St Jude’s Hospital, took a dramatic turn today. An Italian woman posing as a doctor inf ltrated the boy’s ward before being a... ...rds, a f re alarm was sounded and, in the commotion, Theo ran away. ‘The Italian woman is being detained under suspicion of impersonat- ing a doctor... ...e too intimidating to invite a closer look: A Study of the Folk Demons of Medieval Mongolia Bloodlines of the Ancient Celtic Priests Law and Ritual i... ...od that the villagers bring.’ ‘Ha,’ Theo laughed. ‘I thought holy men and saints were supposed to lead strict lives of hardship and fasting, not stu...

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...rof. Rice has placed on exhi- bition in Hopkins Hall some pho- tographs of Italian paintings of the Tuscan school of central Italy. This school includ... ...rof. Rice has placed on exhi- bition,in Hopkins Hall some pho- tographs of Italian paintings of the Tuscan school of central Italy. This school includ... ...l* Graves prize essay, has a subjer of lesser interest, away from tl:^ old Italian monastery. Joachir founded a religious establishment anticipated, i... ...the Y. M. C. A. meeting held last evening in Jesup Hall spoke on the text "Saints shall judge the world." A saintmay be defined as a man of purpose wh... ...ow the player what he should do. He sets the pace. Just so, men of purpose—saints—must set n pace, ns have men in history, as indeed did Christ. The t... ...istory need intelligent adaptation to the present. The differences between medieval conditions and present conditions do not invalidate the arsument t...

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... might, by this time, have been centuries old, though ever new. In the dry Italian air, how- ever, Nature had only so far adopted this old pile of sto... ...and yellow wash, which is a sort of renovation very much in vogue with the Italians. Kenyon noticed over a doorway, in the portion of the edifice imme... ...s tall front is like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.” “I know little or nothing of its history,” said the Cou... ... prints, representing the sufferings of the Saviour, and the martyrdoms of saints, hung on the wall; and behind the crucifix there was a good copy of ... ...etained a genuine life; they filled the transepts with a radiant throng of saints and angels, and threw around the high altar a faint reflection—as mu... ...painted windows; and as often as he gazed at them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ...e,” said Donatello. “I tremble at those aw- 76 The Marble Faun V ol 2 ful saints; and, most of all, at the figure above them. He glows with Divine wr...

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...ique statues, a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,... ... eyes were somewhat startled. “Donatello, my dear friend,” said Kenyon, in Italian, “pray gratify us all by taking the exact attitude of this statue.”... ...treat you to take the tips of my ears for granted.” As he spoke, the young Italian made a skip and jump, light enough for a veritable faun; so as to p... ... dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial purposes demand. “Miria... ...an of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, who then dwelt and worshipped in these dismal places. Y ou have hea... ...marvels of this kind. “These eyes of mine never beheld him, signorina; the saints forbid!” answered the guide. “But it is well known that he watches n... ...as often as he gazed at 232 The Marble Fawn them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ...

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...gend, too, but I should not feel justified in repeat- ing it because I doubted the truth of some of its minor de- tails. Along in this region a multit... ...a. It did no other harm, but we took to the water just the same. It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings is done mai... ..., in the garden, with the beautiful Neckar flowing at our feet, the quaint Dilsberg looming beyond, and the graceful towers and battle- ments of a cou... ...fternoon tramp up the valley, along the grassy bank of a rushing stream of clear water, past farm- houses, water-mills, and no end of wayside crucifix... ... just as well to remember the 10th of August by. Martyrdom made a saint of Mary Queen of Scots three hun- dred years ago, and she has hardly lost all ... ...undertaker-furniture and paying no sort of attention to his frequent and humble little efforts to do something for her comfort. Then the train halted ...

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...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter... ... overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the manner of a terrace, product... ...d; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag... ...y have stood almost as still as it would have done had she seen two of the saints in the great picture in the convent chapel turn their painted heads ...

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... and supported the almost con- tinual evil tidings of the Emperor as best they might. It chanced I was the only gentleman among the privates who remai... ...cat that stirred in a quarter of a mile. During this interval, I have to direct your sympathies on the Vicomte de Saint-Yves! All addressed me softly,... ...hapter-houses, chapels, and transepts) one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets an... ... readily console myself. In this experi- mental humour, and with so little to help me, it was a miracle that I should have brought my enterprise to a ... ...d my eyes to my enemy. He had his hat on, a little on one side: it was a very tall hat, raked extremely, and had a narrow curling brim. His hair was a...

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...away to the other side of the world as they were, in smoky rooms, and grey medieval courts, they appeared remarkable figures, free-spoken men with who... ...kets with pieces of wool-work dropping out of them. Pho- tographs from old Italian masterpieces hung on the walls, and views of Venetian bridges and S... ...enance in the cold moonlight, and worshipped old brown pictures and carved saints which stood with upraised hands of blessing in the hollows in the wa... ...s is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the v... ...it again, but kept it on her table, and looked at it occasionally, as some medieval monk kept a skull, or a crucifix to remind him of the frailty of t...

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...ell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world; saints and martyrs, dream- ers and scoundrels, the traditions of a thousand... ... fought like junks, throwing grenades fighting hand to hand in an entirely medieval fashion. The risks of a collapse and fall on either side came near... ...stroy it. There was first the battle of the Bernese Oberland, in which the Italian and French navigables in their flank raid upon the Franconian Park ...

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...p. Haphazard among the sermons and homilies, the travels, the lives of the Saints, the Fathers, the histories of the church, were old-fashioned novels... ...ze; and the tall roofs, the spires of the churches, gave it a pleas- antly medieval air. There was a homeliness in it which warmed the heart. Hayward ... ...elibacy , and the confes- sional, and purgatory: and in the darkness of an Italian cathedral, incense-laden and mysterious, I believe with all my hear... ...t proves.” “Why , it proves that you believe with your gen- eration. Y our saints lived in an age of faith, when it was practically impossible to disb... ... he looked upon nature) might liberate the soul from pain. They went to an Italian restaurant for luncheon and ordered themselves a fiaschetto of Chia... ...ilip went into his bed-room to wash. They dined in the neighbourhood in an Italian restaurant. Philip was cross and silent, but he quickly realised th... ...ble walks with the monkish heart within him, and his eyes see things which saints in their cells see too, and he is unastounded. His lips are not lips...

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...And her unselfishness! She had been thus all her life, but really, on this Italian tour, she was surpassing herself. So Lucy felt, or strove to feel. ... ...s inside it, except one tour- ist; but its platforms were overflowing with Italians, who preferred to stand. Children tried to hang on 15 EM Forster ... ...t the good person. Being English, Miss Honeychurch will be perfectly safe. Italians understand. A dear friend of mine, 16 A Room with a View Contessa... ...is church of Santa Croce; how it was built by faith in the full fervour of medievalism, before any taint of the Renaissance had appeared. Observe how ... ...Don’t let us spoil yours,” he continued to Lucy. “Have you looked at those saints?” “Yes,” said Lucy. “They are lovely. Do you know which is the tombs... ...ke the Della Robbia babies better.” “So you ought. A baby is worth a dozen saints. And my baby’s worth the whole of Paradise, and as far as I can see ... ...writ- ten to illustrate this point. There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady. The dragons have gone, and so have the knights, but still sh... ... Woman, and go there as her tran- sitory self. Lucy does not stand for the medieval lady, who was rather an ideal to which she was bidden to lift 40 ... ...h miles of dark squalid road, poured out their souls to the dryads and the saints, and Lucy poured out hers to her cousin. 71 EM Forster “Charlotte, ...

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... timid mind, he was emboldened by the countenance of Boileau. Of the elder Italian authors, such as Ariosto, and, a fortiori, Dante, be knew absolutel... ...hentic dramas. As to the first argument, let it be remembered, that if the saints of the chapel are always in the same honor, because there men are si... ...en are simply discharging a duty, which once due will be due for ever; the saints of the theatre, on the other hand, must bend to the local genius, an... ... question as seriously affecting the glory of the poet. In some legends of saints, we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola... ... dialogue. Among the many defects and infirmities of the French and of the Italian drama, indeed, we may say of the Greek, the dialogue proceeds alway... ...l other writers, Dante, 70 Biographical Essays suppose, or Anosto amongst Italians, Camoens amongst those of Portugal, Schiller amongst Germans, howe... ...notion found little counte- nance in Lamb’s own way of treating the gloomy medieval traditions propagated throughout Europe about the Jews, and their ...

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...ived. If it weren’t for that piece of paper you’d be like the Irish or the Italians or the Poles, but particularly the Irish ….” And she laid one fing... ... incommoded by the ringing of bells from a city church. I would talk about medieval survivals, about the taxes being surely high enough. The point, by... ...mmendations; and she would wish me good night as if she were a cinquecento Italian lady saying good-bye to her lover. And at ten o’clock of the next m... ... more than sixteen. At one moment she would be talking of the lives of the saints and at the next she would be tumbling all over the lawn with the St ... ...m. A tall, fair, stiffly upright man of fifty, he was walking away with an Italian baron who had had much to do with the Bel- gian Congo. They must ha... ... And, when she opened her eyes she looked straight into mine. “The blessed saints,” she said, “you would think they would spare you such things. I don... ...hen it came unexpectedly. That was because the bad dreams that the blessed saints allowed her to have for her sins always seemed to her to herald them... ...o his. She did not. But she had been handed over to him, like some patient medieval virgin; she had been taught all her life that the first duty of a ... ...x Ford handmaiden—sweeping, tending, embroidering, like some Deborah, some medieval saint—I am not, unfortunately, up in the Catholic hagiology. But I...

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... through the pylons of Euston; Wessex behind the poised chaos of Waterloo. Italians realise this, as is natural; those of them who are so unfortunate ... ... who thought charm in a man rather rot, and had soon got rid of the little Italian beast with whom they had started. 92 Howards End “Charles—” His br... ...he superiority of the unseen to the seen. It’s true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.” ... ...sive—that’s all.” As a lady’s lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman, in whose blood there runs the very spirit ... ...St. Francis into a white- hot hatred of the carnal. He could not be as the saints and love the Infinite with a seraphic ardour, but he could be a litt...

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...aid Mrs. Prest, “but this cor- ner has seemed to me before more Dutch than Italian, more like Amsterdam than like Venice. It’s perversely clean, for r... ...the hospitable act. As a general thing I was irritated by this survival of medieval manners, though as I liked the old I suppose I ought to have liked... ...wn. I begged her to hand it to her mistress, having first written on it in Italian the words, “Could you very kindly see a gentleman, an American, for... ...in which, as I went rapidly to meet her, I exclaimed, taking care to speak Italian: “The garden, the garden—do me the pleasure to tell me if it’s your... ...hen the air was aglow with the sunset, I was standing before the church of Saints John and Paul and looking up at the small square-jawed face of Barto...

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...BORATORY TESTS OF THE VIVISECTOR’S EMOTIONS TAKE THE HACKNEYED CASE of the Italian who tortured mice, ostensibly to find out about the effects of pain... ... the nearest policeman, or, failing him, to any sane person in Europe. The Italian is diagnosed as a cruel voluptuary: the dog-starver is passed over ... ...ary share of the risk. That has always been the case. We now know that the medieval horror of leprosy was out of all pro- portion to the danger of inf... ...ising the authorities, keep the government itself free of superstition. If Italian peas- ants are so ignorant that the Church can get no hold of them ... ...What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am lea...

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...ec- ognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bear- able after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. As I sat watching Everyman at the C... ...st, once called a heavenly host, are a continually dwindling minority. The saints, the fathers, the elect of long ago are the cranks, the faddists, th... ...arth is a nursery in which men and women play at being heros and heroines, saints and sinners; but they are dragged down from their fool’s paradise by... ...ve their notion of it from two of the great- est fools that ever lived, an Italian and an Englishman. The Italian described it as a place of mud, fros... ...rife; but rather would I be dragged through all the circles of the foolish Italian’s Inferno than through the pleasures of Europe. That is what has ma...

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...past, but in the sight of God St. Mary of Egypt is no lower than the other saints. When it had happened to V assilyev in the street to recognize a fal... ... into the drawing-room.” The medical student and the artist, still talking Italian, went into the drawing-room. V assilyev followed them irresolutely.... ...rts of nonsense. He said it would be nice if we could suddenly come upon a medieval castle with turreted towers, with moss on it and owls, in which we... ...n and badly fed; this time she had looked at him sternly and immovably, as saints in the holy pictures or dying people look. From that strange, evil l... ...t, were fixed upon the ikon stand. He saw the long familiar figures of the saints, the verger Matvey puffing out his cheeks and blowing out the candle...

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...ot by good inten- tions, and that one efficient sinner is worth ten futile saints and martyrs. I need not elaborate the point further in these pages. ... ...olute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch in ... ...e considers for a moment the difference between a Cathedral service and an Italian opera at Covent Garden. The service is a much more serious matter t...

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...delightfully soft ened, so that you were reminded of those sweet domestic saints who lighten here and there the passionate records of the Golden Book... ...ith water. They were made in five weeks, by the Count von Küffstein and an Italian mystic and rosicrucian, the Abbé Geloni. The bottles were closed wi... ...ng into treacherous byways. One of two had a wan ascetic look, such as the saints may have had when the terror of life was known to them only in the i... ...tern handiwork, barbaric weapons from central Africa, savage implements of medieval warfare; and an idea came to him. He took down a huge battle axe a...

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...Leaves of Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts.......... ...f their eyes? The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—b... ... I heard your long stretch’d sighs up above so mournful, I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of t... ...al echoes from the Thames, I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locu... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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...n nearly as great as the Greeks, I do believe. Greater, I’m sure, than the Italians, though they did get closer to beauty. Greater than the French, th... ...Through the ad- vancing wall of waters he sees no grisly faces, no ghastly medieval limbs, but—But what nonsense! When real things are so wonderful, w... ...t the whitewashed pillars, the humble pavement, the window full of magenta saints. There was the vicar’s wife. And Mrs. Wilbraham’s bonnet. Ugh! The r...