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Page 300 - History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe. By WEH Lecky, MA Cabinet Edition, 2 vols.
Page 300 - HISTORY of the RISE and INFLUENCE of the SPIRIT of RATIONALISM in EUROPE. By WEH LECKY, MA Cabinet Edition, being the Fourth.
Page 40 - Euuhrosyne ; but the first gave him a beautiful flower, and the other fastened it in his button-hole. He looked like a victim bedecked by the priestesses of some old fane of Helium. loveliness, and proud of his impending fate. What could the Psalmist mean in the immortal passage ? Threescore and ten, at the present day, is the period of romantic passions.
Page 45 - the critics will commence. You know who the critics are ? The men who have failed in literature and art.
Page 12 - ... and, springing from his seat, he impatiently paced the room. 'And yet,' continued the General calmly, 'there is no manner of doubt that Garibaldi is the only name that could collect ten thousand men at any given point in Italy ; while in France, though her influence is mythical, the name of Mary- Anne is a name of magic. Though never mentioned, it is never forgotten. And the slightest allusion to it among the initiated will open every heart. There are more secret societies in France at this moment...
Page 69 - He did, would have less than the little faith of Peter ; who profess to educe the world from something that was ever less and less, so that Nature began from no Nature, and life from no life ; surrender their position and accept the miracle of miracles — " Can there be anything more miraculous than the existence of man and the world ? anything more literally supernatural than the origin of things...
Page 79 - but, though really I have no right to speak of his affairs, he must have suffered very much.' ' Well, he has the consolation of suffering in a good cause,' said the Duke. ' I shall be happy to make his acquaintance. I look upon an American gentleman with large estates in the South as a real aristocrat ; and whether he gets his rents, or whatever his returns may be, or not, I should always treat him with respect.
Page 33 - but if that sorrow be reserved for me, promise that to me, if only once, you will reappear.' ' I doubt whether the departed have that power,' said Theodora, ' or else I think my heroes would have revisited me. I lost a father more magnificent than Jove, and two brothers brighter than Apollo, and all of them passionately loved me, and yet they have not come ; but I shall see them, and perhaps soon. So you see, my dear Lord...
Page 59 - But Lothair, though he appreciated Putney Giles, had not yet formed a full conception of the resource and all accomplished providence of that wondrous man, acting under the inspiration of the consummate Apollonia. Passing through the entrance hall, a lofty chamber though otherwise of moderate dimensions Lothair was ushered into his armoury, a gallery two hundred feet long, with suits of complete mail ranged on each side, and the walls otherwise covered with rare and curious weapons. It was impossible,...
Page 117 - The gentlemen of the smoking-room have it not all their own way quite as much as they think. If, indeed, a new school of Athens were to be pictured, the sages and the students might be represented in exquisite dressing-gowns, with slippers rarer than the lost one of Cinderella, and brandishing beautiful brushes over tresses still more fair. Then is the time when characters are never more finely drawn, or difficult social questions more accurately solved; knowledge without reasoning, and truth without...