... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...uired wealth rather than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the U... ...y spread inexorably throughout the fertile Anatolia, confronting in the process the Byzantines and the Mongols. They were no match to the brute effi... ...the Marble (Marmara) Sea. His desperate struggles against the corrupt and decadent Byzantines, made him the Robin Hood, the folk hero of the millio... ...ht the Islamic terrorism on its borders all by itself. Mercenaries imported by the Byzantines from Europe served only to destabilize it further. Os... ...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... ... "War and Massacre", and Elizabeth Anscombe in "War and Murder". According to the Catholic Church's rendition of this theory, set forth by Bishop ... ...s theory, set forth by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in his Letter to President Bush on Iraq, dated ...

...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...declared it on October 1929. It was a union of East and West, the Orthodox and the Catholic, Ottoman residues with Austro-Hungarian structures, the... ... federation - were mortified to find themselves in a Serb-dominated "Third World", Byzantine polity. This was especially galling to the Croats ... ...ous reversal of pan-Serbist beliefs: "If there were more freedom... Serbia would be Catholic in twenty years. The most ideal thing would be for the ... ... fascists (the Stern group). And while Croat fascism (such as it was, "tainted" by Catholic religiosity and pagan nationalism) lasted four tumultuo... ...ionalism) lasted four tumultuous years - it persisted for a quarter of a century in Romania ("infected" by Orthodox clericalism and peasant lores). ... ...ed themselves to be the proper heirs of their former masters: murderous, suborned, Byzantine and nearsighted. In an effort to justify their mis... ...b and Bulgarian churches collaborated with the rulers of the day against perceived Byzantine (Greek and Russian) political encroachment in religiou...

...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...he colored glass refracting natural sunlight and using it to glorify Christian Saints, Christian Myths, er Truths. The masses not allowed to go out... ...ged thousands and millions of children… Take the cases of rape and sodomy Catholic Priests have been convicted of recently in America. Has this ... ...psyche that prevents them from being logical, or doing the right thing. If Catholic Priests have been convicted of so many rapes and sodomy charge... ...d sodomy charges today… then what does this say of the one thousand years of Catholic Priests before today…? When such child-protection laws never ... ...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 ... ... myth comes from a supposed Bishop called Nicholas: in the 4 th century AD in Byzantine THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization The Eff...

...psychotic. He isn‘t thinking rationally. Even you Ray, what if you had gone to the university in Cairo or Tehran and studied Islam rather than Cathol... ...hat I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishman, a Mexican, a Muslim or a Cathol... ...Jews and gypsies as the devils. Bin Laidin needed pro-Israel countries and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innocents. Power driven Cathol... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ...h Africa, establishing a number of military posts. By 698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzant... ...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... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant...

...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...mous author was not alone in feeling indignant. Thomas More (one of only two saints to write really good political theory) made similar points, though... ...is seems quite sensible,” people often say, as though they had expected both Byzantine complexity and manifest irrationality. (Perhaps they have had s... ...sible today, though there are some relatively prominent counterexamples. The Catholic Church is also a purportedly idealistic institution. It is based... ...ritics.org/archives/2005/12/17/032826.php: But it was the staggering, nearly byzantine ambition that encompassed Charles’ mu- sical mind which is the ...

...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... ...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... ...ulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, which, merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that... ...llied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. In reality, some parts of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or... ...nctities of the next world. Thus, for instance, the Pope, as the father of Catholic Christendom, could not but be viewed with awe by any Christian of ... ... no such wide chasm between this pagan supersti- tion and the adoration of saints in the Romish church, as at first sight appears. The fault is purely... ...same breeding, finally re-estab- lished itself with undisputed sway in the Byzantine court. Meantime the institutions of Dioclesian, if they had de- s...

...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,...

...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ...ooked by the roof of a chapel still standing there as if to prove that the Catholic religion—so deeply rooted in France—survives all else. For forty y... ...grand and terrible exception deserves all the honors decreed to her by the Catholic Church. Thus, in one moment, Lisbeth Fischer had become the Mohica... ...he rigid, slim figure. Lisbeth, like a Virgin by Cranach or Van Eyck, or a Byzantine Madonna stepped out of its frame, had all the stiffness, the prec... ...and eternal salvation, swear by the Virgin Mary and by all your hopes as a Catholic!” Valerie knew that the Brazilian would keep that oath even if she... ...or ingratitude! Heaven does not see the char- ity that costs us nothing—” “Saints, madame, may if they please go to the workhouse; they know that it i...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator ...

...validate my assumption that if we go back only to the closing years of the Roman Republic, we go back to an age in which nearly every person living wi... ... which nearly every person living within the confines of what was then the Roman Empire who left living offspring must have been ancestral to every pe... ...on more hu- manized figures, upon the tender figure of Mary, upon pa- tron saints and such more erring creatures, for the effect of mediation and symp... ...erty as such, sensibilities can be hardened to endure the life led by the “Romans” in Dartmoor jail a hundred years ago (See “The Story of Dartmoor Pr... ...nswer would be, ‘No, we are Samurai and were united before the Elders.’ In Catholic countries those who use only the civil marriage are considered out... ... be- longs. The religious marriage is considered the only one bind- ing by Catholics, and the civil ceremony is respected merely because the State has... ...ntal than the State, a synthetic power. And in particular, the idea of the Catholic Church is charged with synthetic suggestion; it is in many ways an... ...and authoritative forms of Catho- lic teaching which have erected that new Byzantine-looking cathedral in Westminster, or Whitfield’s Tabernacle in th... ...he world is full of such figures and their images, Christ and Mary and the Saints and all the lesser, dearer gods of heathendom. These things and the ...

...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-... ... attain solemnity; for the whole place is strangely vulgar and garish. The Catholic church, as churches go to-day, is certainly the most spec- tacular... ...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... ...y manners which (for whatever other teachings it may be respon- sible) the Catholic church so often instils into its func- tionaries. I have never see... ...ry to Gaul, dates from the third century. They have been dealt with as the Catholic church deals with most of such places to-day; polished and furnish... ...ded, an elongated, bracelet. The windows of the attic are like shrines for saints. The gargoyles, the medallions, the statuettes, the festoons, are li... ...d with quaint figures, which have not lost a nose or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of th...

...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 ... ...em towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic demurs, the difference between them and my own is broad. They, wit... ... was disputed. Gerson was adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the same time it must not be denied, that, i... ...fect. One part of the effect from the symbolic is dependent upon the great catholic principle of the Idem in alio. The symbol restores the theme, but ... ...ry’s governess 1 that she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who ... ...thought, there can be none under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural... ...nal cultivators of the Roman language—and which, at another period, in the Byzantine court, operated to preserve the purity of the mother idiom within...

...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...ic. He was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the ful... ... was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the fullest, ... ...in her even voice read the opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous may... ...is imagination. It was called the Hall of the Thou- sand Columns. It was a Byzantine cistern, which the popular fancy had endowed with fantastic vastn... ...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... ...der the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the pictur- esqueness of the Roman Catholic faith appealed to his esthetic sensibility; and it was only the fe... ...law established. Though he had now given up all idea of becom- ing a Roman Catholic, he still looked upon that communion with sympathy . He had much t... ... Athelny for some fantastic reason took it into his head to discourse upon Byzantine history; he had been reading the later volumes of the Decline and...

...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... ...nd generally of those who were then known amongst sneerers as “the Clapham saints.” This one requisition it was on which the scheme foundered. And the... ...r: GREECE, in the largest extent of that term, having once belonged to the Byzantine empire, is included, by the mis- conception of hasty readers, in ... ...lves not less of the decrepitude which had by that time begun to palsy the Byzantine sceptre, than of the martial and religious fanaticism which disti... ... rolls of chivalry,—were not excluded, though it was pretty evident that a Catholic zeal had pre- sided in forming the collection. For, together with ... ...lory of his short career was proclaimed in the ungen- erous exultations of Catholic Rome from Vienna to Madrid, and the individual heroism in the lame... ...und to the interests of the emperor. Both the city and the university were Catholic. Princes of the imperial family, and Papal commissioners, who had ...

...omp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman habit, waving his bronze baton on his broad-flanked brazen charger. W... ...f the 13 Thackeray time. Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or... ...town. Some of our party went to a Spanish venta, as a more con- venient or romantic place of residence than an English house; others made choice of th... ...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... ...ons, and sunshine; the sign- boards, bottled-porter stores, the statues of saints and little chapels which jostle the stranger’s eyes as he goes up th... ...alace. This place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a ... ...lashed and overset them; And they call in their emer- gence Upon countless saints and virgins; And their marrow- bones are bended, And they think the ... ...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 across kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipl... ...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... ... action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to b... ...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... ...d, they grew less amenable to disci- pline; and as in the last days of the Byzantine Empire, every- one wished to be emperor. They mistook their unifo... ...ught and feeling. And he would very promptly have been dropped but for the romance that hung about his adventures and his life; but for the men who cr... ...mes luckily written on every door, together with the picture of a saint or saints and the mystical words which every nun takes as a kind of motto for ...

...years ago. She had a number of rich and noble lovers and one poor and obscure one, Sir Wendel Lobenfeld. With the native chuckleheadedness of the hero... ...e native chuckleheadedness of the heroine of romance, she preferred the poor and obscure lover. With the native sound judgment of the father of a hero... ...onths at a time, and then retire to this miserable wooden den and spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time. She was a d... ...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... ...try to put your fin- ger on it, it will skip a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great d... ... 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 ... ...eral days. He was a rabid Protestant, and he was always saying: “In the Protestant cantons you never see such poverty and dirt and squalor as you do i... ...camp with you and stay.” Then it was the guide-boards: “In a Protestant canton you couldn’t get lost if you wanted to, but you never see a guide- boar... ... a marvel, it is a miracle. Some of the effects are very daring, approaching even to the boldest flights of the rococo, the sirocco, and Mark Twain 2...

...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...he ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented th... ...nd here only, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- scious... ...nal principles of Protestantism available for the defence of certain Roman Catholic mysteries too in- discriminately assaulted by the Protestant zealo... ... shedding innocent blood, ‘pudeat Christianos magistratus [as if the Roman Catholic magistrates were not Christians] in tuenda certa veritate nihil pr... ...est to the commencement of what Mr. Finlay, in a peculiar sense, calls the Byzantine empire. These incidents have nowhere been systematically or conti... ...s of power from all further concurrence or coalition with the views of the Byzantine Caesar. Constantinople was from that date thrown back more upon i... ...r. This new and final state of the eastern Rome Mr. Finlay denominates the Byzantine em- pire. Possibly this use of the term may be capable of justifi...

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...s, the more it conceals them; and for the very same reason: just as in the Roman amphitheatres, when they grew to the magnitude of mighty cities, (in ... ... at stake upon their husbands’ safety, rarely indeed are able to take this Roman view of their duties. T o return to the narrative. Agnes had not, nor... ...dents of the life, if the very external coercions are themselves unusually romantic. They may thus gain a separate interest of their own. And, lastly,... ... she asked pussy if she would be a saint, pussy replied that she would, if saints were allowed plenty of sweetmeats. But least of all were the nuns di... .... The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that... ...rom the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic king’s bis- cuit, as she had previously packed up far too little o... ...iging attentions, ‘I myself hold the rank of Alferez in the service of his Catholic Majesty. I am a native of Biscay, and I am now repairing to Cuzco ... ...ussian Emperor, either it is built upon some confusion between him and the Byzantine Caesars, as though the former, being of the same religion with th...

... in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these i... ...ily we always read as superior be- ings. Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures, —in the sacerdotal, the im-... ...a cathedral. When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days an... ...ed thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days and image-worship, we have as it were been the man that made t... ...n the vaunted dis- tinction between Greek and English, between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic. When a thought of Plato b... ...ices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised; and that a com- pensation is to be made to th... ..., or a mouse to Hecate; that I do not tremble before the Eumenides, or the Catholic Purgatory, or the Calvinistic Judgment-day,—if I quake at opinion,... ... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ... ...d for two ele- ments, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. We adjust our instrument for general obser- vation, and sweep the...

...al grave moral disapproval tinged by a shamefaced regret for the departing romance. Historians are very much like other people. However, History has n... ...ested in the events of the frontier of Spain, for political, religious, or romantic rea- sons. But I was not interested. Apparently I was not romantic... ...I was not romantic 7 Joseph Conrad enough. Or was it that I was even more romantic than all those good people? The affair seemed to me commonplace. T... ... press to that dummy?” “Because it sat for days and days in the robes of a Byzantine Empress to a painter… I wonder where he discovered these priceles... ...suffer a model inside his house. That’s why the ‘Girl in the Hat’ and the ‘Byzantine Empress’ have that family air, though neither of them is really a... ...f length, unframed. They put her on a chair for my mother to look at. The ‘Byzantine Empress’ was already there, hung on 21 Joseph Conrad the end wal... ...oss his shirt front. An orange ribbon. Bavarian, I should say. Great Roman Catholic, Azzolati. It was always his ambi- tion to be the banker of all th... ...y waist and entreated me to cast off from me my evil ways with the help of saints and priests. Quite a little programme for a reformed sinner. I got a... ... nice, dear, young gentleman. For no earthly good only making all the kind saints in heaven angry, and our mother ashamed in her place amongst the ble...