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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for...

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...exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nev... ...Christ God and the Veiled Being, who answer to their Creator God. This the orthodox post Nicaean Chris- tians assert, and many pre-Nicaeans and many h... ...tterance in St. John’s gospel (XV. 26). Most of the teachings of Christian orthodoxy re- solve themselves to the attentive student into assertions of ... ... admit, do anything of the sort?” The attentive reader of the lives of the Saints will find that this style of argument did in the past bring many tri... ...reat multitude of persecuted sects, from the Albigenses and Cathars to the eastern Paulicians. The catho- lic church found it necessary to prohibit th... ...nt and of death as a release and a blessing. It is too easily assumed that Eastern teaching is wholly concerned with renunciation, not merely of self ... ...o the release of their more liberal adherents. Its probable obligations to Eastern thought are less readily estimated by a European writer. Modern rel...

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...ey urged, therefore, that, with- out direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period, the title of a... ...did I labour under the incapacity of ignorance—in which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog—but my ... ...s, as well as he of Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and... ... and lance, to open the road to the Holy Sepulchre, and protect the chosen saints and anchorites who yet dwell in this land of promise and of miracle.... ...s hard as we may, we shall yet be better than the host of mar- tyrs and of saints, who, having trod these scenes before us, now hold golden lamps and ... ...y’s embarrassment. “Have you heard all?” said Edith impatiently. “Gracious saints! then wherefore wait you here, when each minute that passes is loade... ...he canon, Lord Marquis,” said the T emplar; “thou art more scrupulous than orthodox. The absolution of the wicked priest is as effectual as if he were...

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...rray, and sending forth the Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 5 names of all the saints in and out of heaven, amidst the clash ing of swords, the ringing... ...er,— Then follow, oh follow! the hounds do cry: The red sun flames in the eastern sky: The stag bounds over the hollow. He that lingers in spiri... ...were so conge nial to those of her lover; and not being over burdened with orthodoxy, that is to say, not being seasoned with more of the salt of th... ...dicious distribution of some of his forest spoils among the holy fathers and saints that were to be,—pious proficients in the ecclesiastic art equest... ...able to his kingly feelings. He had, besides, not only sent all King Henry’s saints about their business, or rather about their no business—their fain... ...fed upon by the mighty in the land? And have not they withal my blessing? my orthodox, canonical, and archiepiscopal bless ing? Do I not give thanks ...

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...t and low; the wind piped over the naked platform; and the only speck of colour was away behind Mount Mezenc and the eastern hills, where the sky stil... ... 28 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne me, sent a glow of gold over some cloud mountains that lay ranged along the eastern sky. The wind had us on t... ...e upon the shoul- der and said, ‘You must be a Catholic and come to heaven.’ But I was now among a different sect of orthodox. These two men were bitt... ...ff and so bloody when once they betook themselves to war, endured with the meekness of children and the constancy of saints and peasants. 69 Robert L...

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...o be hung up as an ecclesiastical scarecrow, as a target for heterodox and orthodox to practice archery upon, is no fate that can be due to the memory... ... no sane mortal can deliberately adopt in his soul as true; which the most orthodox of mortals can only, and this after infinite essentially impi- ous... ...me and Voltaire had done their best and worst with him, profess himself an orthodox Christian, and say and print to the Church of England, with its si... ...hat they should refit and arm and man it;—and sail a- privateering “to the Eastern Archipelago,” Philippine Isles, or I know not where; and so conquer... ...os and Spain at his back; here is a golden fleece to conquer, worth twenty Eastern Archipelagoes.”—Boyd and Torrijos quickly met; quickly bargained. B... ...rnoon, towards the middle of October, I re- member walking with him to the eastern Dock region, to see his ship, and how the final preparations in his... ... apartment; which was adorned by pictures of Architecture, and by Heads of Saints, better than many at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and which one pai... ...Wherefore, as a memorial of them, I bought there several Legends of Female Saints and Martyrs, and of other Ladies quite the reverse, and held up as w... ... bits of colored marble and gilding, and Gog-and-Magog colossal statues of saints (looking prodigiously small), and mosaics from the worst pictures in...

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...ons he read, and lectures he endured, And homilies, and lives of all the saints; To Jerome and to Chrysostom inured, He did not take such st... ...n gone, Some went to prayers again, and made a vow Of candles to their saints—but there were none To pay them with; and some look’d o’er the b... ...g. He had an only daughter, call’d Haidee, The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; Besides, so very beautiful was she, Her dowry was as... ...’d in vain For Juan, so that even when he pray’d He turn’d from grisly saints, and martyrs hairy, To the sweet portraits of the Virgin Mary. B... ...resent, and abused the past, Reversing the good custom of old days, An Eastern anti jacobin at last He turn’d, preferring pudding to no prai... ...d now and then, with tough strings of the bow, As is the custom of those Eastern climes, To give some rebel Pacha a cravat; For mutes are gene... ...ir Perhaps; but as I suffer from the shocks Of illness, I grow much more orthodox. The first attack at once proved the Divinity (But that I ...

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...nce listened meekly. My father and mother were both of the old-fash- ioned orthodox school, with minds formed on Jeremy Tay- lor, Blair, South, and Se... ...ngs differently. He was a clergyman’s son, and had been bred up in the old orthodoxy , which was just beginning to put forth fresh shoots, and, as a q... ...d that northern front door, and later nerves that narrow verge, and on the eastern front had been added that Gothic porch of which Emily had heard,—an... ... and built of the cream-coloured stone of the country. It was at the south-eastern angle, where the ground began sloping so near the house that this w... ...e were of the school called—a little later—high and dry, but were strictly orthodox according to our lights, and held it a prime duty to attend our pa... ... of our shallow depths. I think it was on the meaning of the ‘Communion of Saints,’ 107 Yo n g e for the two girls were both reading in preparation f... ...h, ‘her dear brother and sister,’ to be with her at her Commun- ion on All Saints’ Day. 191 Yo n g e She had written a little letter to Clarence, beg... ...ably dull, ‘always like Sunday;’ and, when she found that we were given to Saints’ Day services, her pity and astonishment knew no bounds. ‘It was all...

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...while there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South-Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d’Artois saw good to break in fro... ...ng, honneur de la seance. ’ A long- flowing Turk, for rejoinder, bows with Eastern solemnity, and utters articulate sounds: but owing to his imperfect... ...t the Gate by the River, bear inscrip- tions, if weak, yet well-meant, and orthodox. Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane ... ...OK 2.II. NANCI Chapter 2.2.I. Bouille. Dimly visible, at Metz on the North-Eastern frontier, a cer- tain brave Bouille, last refuge of Royalty in all ... ...orrors is no longer pleasant to the mind, and you cannot get so much as an orthodox confessor in peace,—from going what way soever the hope of any sol... ...he subject-matter of controversy in this case; what the difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy might here be? My-doxy is t... ..., with kisses on each cheek: your iron Handcuffs are disputed as Relics of Saints; the Brest Society indeed can have one portion, which it will beat i...

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...at passage, and memorable enough in its way. In a great airy ward of a Far Eastern hospital, lying on my back, I 48 The Mirror of the Sea had plenty ... ...Wind hangs heavy gray curtains of mist and spray before your gaze, but the Eastern interloper of the narrow seas, when he has mustered his courage and... ...d, streaming away in thin lines of ships stringing themselves out into the eastern quarter through the various navigable channels of which the Nore li... ...and he was glad she was at rest. It was an excellent discourse. And it was orthodox, too, in its fidelity to the cardinal article of a seaman’s faith,... ...trange women; the highway of he- roes and sages, of warriors, pirates, and saints; the 131 Joseph Conrad workaday sea of Carthaginian merchants and t...

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... on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in t... ... a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the Eastern Archi- pelago which I certainly hoped to see again. The story of “A... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters—some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in t... ... a few women among them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodox Church) coming up the drive. The good man in his haste had tucked ... ...the dawn, only the steady little draught got a more keen edge on it as the eastern sky became bright and glassy with a clean, colourless light. I t wa...

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...ared to Lord Castlewood, and caused him to turn to the one true church. No saints ever come to you.” And Harry Esmond, because of his promise to Fathe... ...ns, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the pai... ...that, old as she was, she was for ever expecting, by the good of- fices of saints and relics, to have an heir to the title of Esmond. Harry Esmond was... ...was the Pagans began it,” cried the lad, and began to instance a number of saints of the Church, from the proto-mar- tyr downwards—”this one’s fire we... ...his lady hath admitted a certain latitude of theological reading which her orthodox father would never 92 Henry Esmond – Book One have allowed; his f...

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...y to shut out was an ungracious office, though mighty for the interests of orthodoxy through the land. The children of this world, who became the agit... ... insuffi- ciency. He is put on his trial as to these points only: 1. Is he orthodox? 2. Is he of good moral reputation? 3. Is he suffi- ciently learne... ...th, still the ludicrous aspects of the Parliamentary war, and its fighting saints, were too striking to have perished. If not in a narrative form, the... ... the combination of such fabulous beings in the same groups with glorified saints and angels, as there is to the combination, by a painter or a sculpt... ...ngine of civi- lization, to the potent infidel nations on her southern and eastern frontier. A vast revolution was at hand for Europe; all her tribes ... ... excitement of mere scenery. Some laud the Caucasus; some the northern and eastern val- leys of Spain; some the Alpine scenery; some the Pyrenean. All... ...ubject to that condition, he supposes the scen- ery on the Eurotas (to the eastern side of the Peloponnesus) the most delightful in Europe. We know no...

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... on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in t... ...had had the man and his surroundings with me ever since my return from the eastern waters, some four years before the day of which I speak. It was in ... ... few women amongst them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodox Church) coming up the drive. The good man in his haste had tucked ... ...the dawn, only the steady little draught got a more keen edge on it as the eastern sky became bright and glassy with a clean, colourless light. It was...

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...perhaps, it would grieve her to obtain; and all the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners, seemed to encourage her onward. “Faith!” shouted Goodma... ...t the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Scattered also among their pale faced enemies were the Indian pries... ...ect of the chamber; and, commending the young man to the protection of the saints, took her departure Giovanni still found no better occupation than t... ... good standing in the world. For them the earliest salmon is caught in our eastern rivers, and the shy woodcock stains the dry leaves with his blood i... ... Christian to acknowledge the good Pagan; almost im possible for the good Orthodox to grasp the hand of the good Unitarian, leaving to their Creator ...

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...ise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing much ... ...isfied with the appearances of things, dissatisfied with the assurances of orthodox belief, uneasy with a sense of unread symbols in the world about t... ...found them annoying and ill-treated them, or was seized with fear and made saints and sorcerers and warlocks of them, or with covetousness and enterta... ...rical fanaticisms in the valleys of the Semoy and the forest region of the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chin... ...rs in Chicago, and the same fate had overtaken Berlin, Moscow, T okio, the eastern half of Lon- don, T oulon, Kiel, and two hundred and eighteen other...

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...ee their faces, they would be altogether different, they would shine out for heroes and saints! I am worse than most; myself is more overlaid; my excu... ...d huskily, ‘I have in some de- gree complied with evil. But it is so with all: the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and ... ...is atmosphere of terror, surrounding, as it did, a man of God of spotless character and orthodoxy, was a com- mon cause of wonder and subject of inqui... ...d souls who had befriended me during my sick- ness, we set forth out of the city by the Eastern gate, and began to ascend into the Sierra. I had been ... ...d prayer; but whether his adorations were addressed to the goddess Hygieia or some more orthodox deity, never plainly appeared. For he had uttered dou...

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... is tear- ful-boastful leave-taking; irregular marching on the Great North-Eastern Road. Marseillese sing their wild To Arms, in chorus; which now all... ...rtain with its own eyes whether it is free or not. Lo, therefore, from the Eastern Gate of the Tuileries, a distressed Convention issuing; hand- some ... ... no better there than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed it- self; spreads, rust... ... kind of Hyper-Jacobinism, or rabid ‘Faction des Enrages;’ which has given orthodox Patriotism some umbrage, of late months. To ‘know a Suspect on the... ... so is it done to them. Sainte- Guillotine, meseems, is worse than the old Saints of Super- stition; a man-devouring Saint? Clootz, still with an air ...

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...i ciency for business—they ought to have given place to younger men, more orthodox in politics, and altogether fit ter than themselves to serve our ... ...with him, withdrew again within the limits of what their Church defined as orthodox. Thus Roger Chillingworth scrutinised his patient carefully, both ... ...ing ill to be disturbed, thus early, out of his dreams about the glorified saints. Hither, likewise, would come the elders and deacons of Mr. Dimmesda... ...visages around the scaffold. Whom would they dis cern there, with the red eastern light upon his brow? Whom, but the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, half... ...scious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels—had desired, by yielding up his breath in the 205 Hawtho...

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...dded heaven’s dark blue vault; _120 The eastern wave grew pale With the first smile of morn. The magic car moved on... ...eep, exultingly I went; The moon had left Heaven desert now, but lent From eastern morn the first faint lustre showed An armed youth—over his spear he... ...n Under the feet—thus was the butchery waged While the sun clomb Heaven’ s eastern steep—but when _2440 It ‘gan to sink—a fiercer combat raged,... ...priests hold so dear, Because they bring them land and gold. Of devils and saints and all such gear, He made tales which whoso heard or read Would lau... ...ment, And his most charitable nephews, pray That the Apostle Peter and the Saints Will grant for their sake that I long enjoy ... ...s) _10 Shielding from the guilt of schism The orthodoxal syllogism; The First Peter—he who was Like the shadow in the gla... ... _365 Be called adulterer, drunkard, liar, wretch! No name left out which orthodoxy loves, Court Journal or legitimate Review!— Be they called tyrant... ...xions Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipped Into a loyal and an orthodox whine. _30 Things being in this h... ... drawn down from Heaven and foreign overthrow. The remnant of the martyred saints in Rochefort Have been abandoned by their faithless allies ...

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.................................................................... 361 WEST-EASTERN DIVAN. ............................................................... ... The Foolish Pilgrim.] WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, When scarce the Eastern sky is grey? Hath he just ceased, though cold it be, In yonder holy... ...ent would not have happened, When each matter was brought to a close in an orthodox fashion. Then for their son themselves the bride the parents selec... ... prospect of peace we should all be rejoicing.” 1796 – 7. 421 Goethe WEST-EASTERN DIVAN. Who the song would understand, Needs must seek the song’s ow... ...Or beasts there have been chosen four T o come to Paradise, And there with saints for evermore They dwell in happy wise. Amongst them all the Ass stan...