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... abstract Thought can still take shelter; that while the din and frenzy of Catholic Emancipations, and Rotten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen e... ...mised at. But, at all events, nothing Moral, still less anything Didactico-Religious, was looked for from him. Well do we recollect the last words he ... ... these days, so numerously patrol as night-constables about the Mechanics’ Institute of Science, and cackle, like true Old-Roman geese and goslings ro... ...eart, and fine though uncultivated sense, was in the strictest acceptation Religious. How indestructibly the Good grows, and propagates itself, even a... ...xysms of Doubt;” his In- quiries concerning Miracles, and the Evidences of religious Faith; and how “in the silent night-watches, still darker in his ... ...or rather reverting, to a certain Tract of Hofrath Heuschrecke’s, entitled Institute for the Repression of Population; which lies, dishonorably enough... ...ge it. A few of these may be in their right place here. Into the Hofrath’s Institute, with its extraordinary schemes, and machinery of Corresponding B... ...versally arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remain- 165 Thomas Carlyle ing Catholic Virtue, of these days? For some half-century, it has been the thin... ...sed legs, wearing thy ankle-joints to horn; like some sacred Anchorite, or Catholic Fakir, doing pen- ance, drawing down Heaven’s richest blessings, f...

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...ake on the score of my morals; she answered that she believed I was a very religious man, and asked Tim, in her turn, if he thought I had any intentio... ...se who were nothing equal to me for steadi- ness and quietness. Tim was “a religious man” himself; in- deed, he was “a joined Methodist,” which did no... ... at X——, I had no inclination now, on casting anchor in calmer regions, to institute at once a prying search after defects that were scrupulously with... ...ary glance from a masculine eye. I know nothing of the arcana of the Roman Catholic religion, and I am not a bigot in matters of theology, but I suspe... ... example, or honest Protestant education; resident a few months now in one Catholic school, now in another, as their parents wandered from land to lan... ... is it not rather her misfortune than her fault? She has been brought up a Catholic: had she been born an Englishwoman, and reared a Protestant, might... ...reathed eloquent in every period. At the close, consolation was suggested; religious faith became there the speaker, and she spoke well. The devoir wa... ...seur—asseyons-nous; je vais vous donner une petite lecon dans votre etat d’instituteur.” (I wish I might write all she said to me in French—it loses s...

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... I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it for the sak... .... She went to church, reformed her dress, 27 Balzac wore gray, and talked Catholicism, mysticism, and so forth. All this produced, in 1825, another l... ...s youth: modern society could have no other basis than heredity. An ardent Catholic, like all men from the Comtat, he went to the earliest morning mas... ...h a ministerial journal of course did him harm. ‘If it had not been for my religious principles,’ he said to me, ‘I should have thrown myself into the... ... twelve years old, being destined for the seminary, was now at the Barniol institute, where he obtained an elementary edu- cation; Barniol, the son-in... ...d had purchased one of those large and sumptuous habitations which the old religious orders built about the Sorbonne, and as Thuillier mounted the bro... ...ised to heaven in religious ecstasy, he recited a prayer; he was a fervent Catholic; he reverently crossed himself. It was fine; like the vision of Sa... ...s, who married a savant, officer of the Legion of honor, and member of the Institute. There’s not a more unhappy woman; her husband has taken her to l... ...a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, one of the five branches of the Institute.’” “Certainly,” said Brigitte; “Felix is getting to be a very pre...

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...nest woman, a good mother of a family, and looked at life according to the religious programme of the middle classes. Such a career suited her own ide... ...boiled like a saucepan, and that several times, if it had not been for his religious sentiments, he should have flung himself into the Seine. Harassed... ... colored placards, at the head of which were these words, “Approved by the Institute.” This formula, used for the first time, had a magical effect. No... ...CARMINATIVE BALM Of Cesar Birotteau. MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY! Approved by the Institute of France. “For many years a paste for the hands and a lotion for... ...e Seraglio by an 31 Balzac Arabian physician. It has been approved by the Institute on the recommendation of our illustrious chemist, Vauquelin; toge... ...inions on men and life in a way to shock a scrupulous woman who shared the religious feelings of her husband, and who thought it a crime to do the lea... ...so plain as to check confidence, had grown sublime through the exercise of Catholic virtues; upon it shone, as it were by anticipation, the celestial ... ... of illu- sions. Possibly, hope is the better half of courage; indeed, the Catholic religion makes it a virtue. Hope! has it not sus- tained the weak,... ...ition, in the hearing of his uncle, his daughter, and Popinot, the sublime catholic prayer:— “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy ...

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...ck which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan arch... ...ard conduct was more touching, whose sincerity was more evident, and whose religious feeling seemed more deep, real, and reasonable. 109 Thackeray On... ...e it is impossible for us to comprehend the source and nature of the Roman Catholic devotion. I once went into a church at Rome at the request of a Ca... ...reverence. It costs one no small effort even to admit the possibility of a Catholic’s credulity:to share in his rapture and devotion is still further ... ...e. But I have never been able to edify myself with their devotion; and the religious outpourings of Lamartine and Chateaubriand, which we have all bee... ...more than are made by our own Episcopal establishment. But if the latter’s religious victories are small, and very few people are induced by the Ameri... ...than by regarding the French bayonets and General Bonaparte, Member of the Institute, fifty years ago, running about with sabre and pigtail. Wonders h...

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...rne. But my father used to get books for himself and me from the Bromstead Institute, Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of... ...ets. He was a science teacher, taking a number of classes at the Bromstead Institute in Kent under the old Science and Art Department, and “visiting” ... ...splay a specimen or arrange an experiment for them to see. The room in the Institute in which he taught was equipped with a certain amount of apparatu... ... un- imaginative temperament or her mind was greatly occupied with private religious solicitudes, and I remember her talk- ing to me but little, and t... ...ooks as confederated old ladies. My mother was also very punctual with her religious du- ties, and rejoiced to watch me in the choir. On winter evenin... ...ing, and upon nations for weakening towards Ritualism, or treating Ro- man Catholics as tolerable human beings; there would be great rejoicings over t... ...milat- ing to itself all the phrases and forms of patriotism, diverting my religious impulses, utilising my esthetic tendencies, my dominating idea, t...

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...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ... dispossessed Elder branch. The future of the exiled Bourbons, that of the Catholic religion, the influence of political innovations on Brittany were ... ...ht be rendered worthless. This human masterpiece of virtuous and noble and religious education, Calyste, might be destroyed; the happiness of his life... ...istences which cannot be judged like ordinary lives.” “My child,” said the religious Fanny, “nothing can excuse a woman for not conducting herself as ... ...ike the rays of a nimbus around the heads of divine personages in works of religious art; through it they see all Nature glorious, and woman radiant. ... ...e. The young man alone kept silence. For the first time in his life he had instituted comparisons between his life-long friends and the two elegant wo... ...future. Napoleon had also said, “I shall be there!” for the members of the Institute; to whom they had better give no salary than send them eighty fra...

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...cut in the fashion of the old regime, the shape of which the peasants have religiously retained even to the present day. The collars of their shirts w... ...ht of transporting travellers from one part of the kingdom to another, and instituted the lines of coaches called the “turgotines,” all the old vehicl... ...ou’ll lose your soul,” said the uncle, try- ing to rouse his nephew to the religious sentiments which are so powerful in the Breton breast. “Uncle,” s... ...e law of 11 Prairial, year III., which gives the use of edifices built for religious wor- ship to all citizens, shall be executed. The government will... ...ch imagination for a soldier; you ought to be making songs at the national Institute.” “If I’ve too much imagination,” retorted Beau-Pied, “you haven’... ...known under his patronymic of Rifoel, was silent before the general of the Catholic armies. “What is all this about, gentlemen?” asked the marquis, ex... ...enterprise before I have time to make a faithful report to the king on the Catholic armies of Brit- tany. I charge you, in case you live to see the Re... ...ed out to them. The wife of Galope-Chopine turned pale as she heard the un-Catholic oath of the so-called Chouan. She looked at the gaiters and goatsk...

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...oks of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. She reveled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the th... ...d head. The only habitable structures to be seen were the florid red-brick Catholic church and rectory at the end of Main Street. 26 Main Street Caro... ...hich looked as hard as steel plate. On another side street a raw red-brick Catholic Church with a varnished yellow door. The post-office—merely a part... ...Dave Dyer, a sallow woman with a thin prettiness devoted to experiments in religious cults, illnesses, and scandal-bearing, shook her finger at Carol ... ... don’t know the things that go on under cover. This town—why it’s only the religious training I’ve given Cy that’s kept him so innocent of—things. Jus... ...ng enough to read Robert J. Ingersoll clean through. Ingersoll? Oh, he’s a religious writer. Sure. You’d like him fine.” When he drove off he waved to... ...s go through. It was their romance; their only mystery besides mass at the Catholic Church; and from the trains came lords of the outer world— traveli... ...mind, because I could keep away from them outside. I used to go to the Art Institute and the Walker Gallery, and tramp clear around Lake Harriet, or h...

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...you look for your bugbear everywhere!’ sighed his aunt. They went over the Institute, coffee-rooms, eating-rooms, and lodging-houses, by which the umb... ... that they had emerged from it so presentable. That it was a more actively religious, and perhaps a more intellectual one than her own, she had though... ...ver from Aunt Ursel, and Miss Mary, and—and— every thing good—and nice—and catholic?’ ‘I hope not, indeed, I hope not. Only he wants us to get the goo... ...ks had been undertaken, evil habits renounced, recon- ciliations effected, religious services frequented. Would it last? Nobody, he said, had taken it... ...h the scurry to go at all, or to obtain a seat, fine music, grand sermons, religious meetings, entertainments for the poor, lectures, lessons, exhibit... ...d the only ones 174 Nuttie’s Father worthy of a Christian, or rather of a Catholic. Both of them had outgrown the lively, aimless chatter and little ...

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...on her. It is not unimportant to say here that the Sauviats were eminently religious. At the very height of the Revolution they observed both Sunday a... ...s of their contracted minds, obtuse to everything that was not business or religious faith. 14 The Village Rector II VERONIQUE THERE ARE, no doubt, m... ...he same altar. When a strong emotion took possession of Veronique,—and the religious exaltation to which she yielded herself on receiving the communio... ...l, clothed with so weak a flesh, showed her the multiplied commandments of Catholicism as so many stones placed for protection along the precipices of... ...inions and consid- ered him a patriot,—a word which meant revolutionist in Catholic minds. Loved by his inferiors, who dared not, how- ever, proclaim ... ...son cast on the chancel. This trinity of color was a reminder of the grand Catholic doctrine. If surprise was the first emotion roused by this pitiful... ...ional establishments, it is still more shameful that the grand prix of the Institute has not as yet furnished a single great painter, great musician, ...

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...-corner, though I were obliged to keep my eyes chained to Erskine’s Larger Institutes. I asked my new friend whether he could not direct me to any hou... ...d’s real goodness of dis- position, joined to the acquired quietism of his religious sect, had been unable entirely to check the effervescence of a te... ....’ Left alone, I tried both collections; the first consisted en- tirely of religious and controversial tracts, and the latter formed a small selection... ...edgauntlet, much stronger amongst the country gentlemen, many of whom were Catholics as well as Jacobites, and most others unwilling to quarrel with k... ...rts of his history as might direct him in the search which he was about to institute through the border counties, and which he pledged himself not; to... ... troop, and gave his orders.— ’Who knows the house best?’ ‘Sam Skelton’s a Catholic,’ said Lowther. ‘ A d—d bad religion,’ said Nanty, of whose Presby... ...sed in a low tone the suspicions of old maids and the churlish scruples of Catholics, that made so many obstacles to helping a fellow creature, and wi... ...he truth, Mr. Fairford, the cause of our desire to delay you is—there is a religious gentleman in this house at present’— ‘ A most excellent person in...

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... peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the “Heptameron” and some religious books,—the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and in... ...Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a ‘religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the ... ...believe it, but many steamboat clerks al ways carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days. Indee... ...ll paved yet; but the reproach of ill lighting cannot be repeated, now. The ‘Catholic New Church’ was the only notable building then, and Mr. Murray w... ... monopoly of them. Here is a picture from the adver tisement of the “Female Institute” of Columbia; Tennessee. The following remark is from the same ... ...lumbia; Tennessee. The following remark is from the same advertisement— “The Institute building has long been famed as a model of striking and beautif... ...ch, and made of a nation of abject slaves a nation of freemen; and Bonaparte instituted the setting of merit above birth, and also so completely strip... ...he telegraph mutilated them. It can not be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestant... ...ram, only 26,362 attended church and Sunday school, while out of the 150,000 Catholics, 116,188 went to church and Sunday school. Chapter 52 A Burning...

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... began to talk of religion from the political point of view, of charitable institutes, the repression of crime, and I could at my leisure study the ma... ...ed him into philosophical deserts of incredulity; this brave statesman was religious, without ostentation; he always attended the earliest mass at Sai... ...oncentration, and the communion of a deeply-touched soul. He was a sort of catholic Manfred, and unstained by crime, carrying his choiceness into his ... ...ng the blows of the revolutionary storm, had established between civil and religious law, and which he said was at the root of all the mischief. “ ‘In... ...i- cient. Ought they not in this case to have harmonized the civil and the religious law, and have sent the guilty wife to a convent, as of old?’ “ ‘T... ...riageable at seven years of age, and more than old at five-and-twenty. The Catholic Church overlooked the needs of half the 25 Balzac globe.—So let u... ...the increase of this inviting crime marks the decline of the dogmas of the Catholic Church. In these days, in cases where the Church now exacts no mor...

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...and attire . . . a mighty good faith in his speech, and a conscience and a religious feeling inclining 10 Essays: Book the First to superstition, rat... ...only took service, but that he was actually in numerous campaigns with the Catholic armies. Let us add, that on his monument he is represented in a co... ...had that maxim indelibly impressed on his mind, to obey and submit himself religiously to the laws under which he was born. Affectionately attached to... ...self, in an especial manner, to the mainte- nance of peace between the two religious factions which at that time divided the town of Bordeaux; and at ... ... told De Thou that the King of Navarre would have been prepared to embrace Catholicism, if he had not been afraid of being abandoned by his party, and... ...nged, I must now think of the welfare of my soul. I am a Christian; I am a Catholic. I have lived one, and I shall die one. Send for a priest; for I w... ... ought to model this new one he enters into by the rules of reason, and to institute and establish it by pre- meditation and reflection. He ought to h... ... Alfonso,—[Alfonso XI., king of Leon and Castile, died 1350.]—he who first instituted the Order of the Band or Scarf in Spain, amongst other rules of ...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true....

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...there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of t... ...an. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Eu- rope for that matter, was eithe... ...ss kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipline wh... ...e detachment of the soul from all earthly things, which is demanded by the religious life, albeit on the continent of Europe there are many convents m... ...or the time necessary to carry out his plans. The General, nothing if not “catholic and monarchical,” took occasion to inform himself of the hours of ... ... the Mother is, for a deliverer of our holy religion and the throne of his Catholic Majesty, the rule might be relaxed for a moment,” said the confess... ...or in the cloister the great saying, “Peace in the Lord,” enters the least religious soul as a living force. The monk’s life is scarcely comprehensibl... ...ear that she had entered a convent. Montriveau determined to search, or to institute a search, for her through every convent in the world. He must hav...

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...osition as head of a hospital, physician to the Emperor, and member of the Institute, rendered lucrative, these four- teen thousand francs a year show... ...ears of age, had been curate of Nemours ever since the re-establishment of Catholic worship. Out of attachment to his flock he had refused the vicaria... ...y the inhabitants at large, the abbe did good with- out inquiring into the religious opinions of those he ben- efited. His parsonage, with scarcely fu... ...cyclope- dists, in the orators of the Gironde, in the men of a period when religious ideas were almost dead, men who called them- selves deists and we... ...ing way. “I shall always hate hypocrites, as much after as before I became religious. I have done good to them all, and I asked no gratitude; but not ... ...e did not claim the right to deprive Ursula of the benefits offered by the Catholic religion. The doctor, sitting at the moment on a bench outside the... ...sehold. Unbelievers do not like mu- sic—a celestial language, developed by Catholicism, which has taken the names of the seven notes from one of the c...

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...s. Gooch, but her prac- tice and devotion were admirable, and she fostered religious sentiment among us, introducing little books which were welcome i... ... delicious and eccentric acts of naugh- tiness as quite atoned for all the religious teaching, and fasci- nated Griff, though he was apt to be very im... ...n to their household on Sun- day evenings, and watch over their children’s religious in- struction, though in a reserved undemonstrative manner. My fa... ... seemed glad to see my father become animated and like himself while Roman Catholic Emancipation was vehemently discussed, and the ruin of England hot... ...istress was so real that I had my hand on the bell to cause a search to be instituted for the missing damsel, when Mrs. Fordyce begged me to do no suc... ... is now ready 243 Yo n g e done by the National Society and Sunday School Institute, we could do a good deal to assist Martyn in his London work, and...

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... superior to the haughty arrogance of Castile: after the civil rights were instituted, Balthazar Claes cast aside the ragged robes of his Spanish nobi... ...th the habits of their life. The inhabitants of Douai held the family in a religious esteem that was well-nigh superstition. The sturdy honesty, the u... ...ief over, he wished to marry; he needed the domestic happiness whose every religious aspect had fastened upon his mind. He even fol- lowed the family ... ...he loveli- ness of a wife. Fidelity, often the result of social principle, religious duty, or self-interest on the part of a husband, was in this case... ...etists and Illu- minati made the greatest number of proselytes, a flock of Catholics devoted to those ideas, he remained there,—all 85 Balzac the mor... ..., but it will be dishonorable. Monsieur Conyncks has no alternative but to institute pro- ceedings; the law requires it. This is the result of your ob...

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...ly well understood that fundamental principle so strongly laid down in the institutes of the learned Rochefoucault, by which the duty of self-love is ... ...ial took but a very short time. A cause of battery and broken lanthorn was instituted against him, and proved in the same manner; nor would the justic... ...s led him, who (though a good classical scholar) was not deeply learned in religious matters, into a disadvantageous opinion of Providence. A dangerou... ...xpected and dreadful events. A reflexion which may serve to many moral and religious uses. This accident produced the first acquaintance between the m... ...an to open his intended marriage, telling me that he had formerly had some religious objections to bigamy, but he had very fully considered the matter... ...e, we will call back your husband; for, upon my word, he hath shewn a good catholic patience. And where is the honest serjeant and his wife? I am plea... ...blic, for whose good principally all public of- fices are, or ought to be, instituted. Now this good can never be completed nor obtained but by employ...