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...). 11 Both sides of the controversy took the book very seriously. In ducal Saxony it was rigorously suppressed. Before the imperial council at Worm... ...furt during Luther’s student days, and was later secretary to Duke George of Saxony in Dresden. Luther is referring to the treatises both men publish... ... will be accused before Christ as wicked servants. Thus the holy fathers of old in the desert did not receive the sacrament in any form for many yea... ...ise of Christ. and thereby at last made clear what the promise to the men of old really was. And so it finally came to the most perfect promise of a... ...those who believe the promise. And he distinguishes this testament from the old one by a particular mark when he calls it the “new testament” [Luke ... ...rk when he calls it the “new testament” [Luke 22:20; I Cor. 11:25]. For the old testament given through Moses was not a promise of forgiveness of si... ...hose who sin, because they have forgotten that they were cleansed from their old sins, and he clearly rebukes their wicked unbelief and their ingrati... ...iage was not without precedent; common law in parts of Westphalia and Lower Saxony, for example, prescribed that a man who could not perform his conj...

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...utlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy....

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...wo women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy. The name of the former was Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin. H... ... being educated in one of the best government schools in Pe- tersburg. The old lady sitting with Marya Dmitrievna at the win- dow was her father’s sis... ...her. A little sharp- nosed woman with black hair and keen eyes even in her old age, Marfa Timofyevna walked briskly, held herself upright 5 and spoke... ...ys are on him! Sergei Petrovitch is a worthy man.” “Worthy!” repeated the old lady scornfully. “And how devoted he was to my poor husband!” observed ... ...arried for love, and no good ever comes of those love- matches,” added the old lady, with a sidelong glance at Marya Dmitrievna, as she got up from he... ...ISTOPHER THEODOR GOTTLIEB LEMM was born in 1786 in the town of Chemnitz in Saxony. His parents were poor musicians. His father played the French horn,...

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...ERSONAE. THE POPE. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. RAYMOND, king of Hungary. DUKE OF SAXONY. BRUNO. DUKE OF VANHOLT. MARTINO, FREDERICK, gentlemen. BENVOLIO, ... ...ROBIN. DICK. Doctor Faustus – Marlowe 3 Vintner. Horse courser. Carter. An Old Man. Scholars, Cardinals, ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS, Bish ops, Monks, Fri... ...ey drag huge argosies, And from America the golden fleece That yearly stuffs old Philip’s treasury; If learned Faustus will be resolute. FAUSTUS. Vald... ..., and change thy shape; Thou art too ugly to attend on me: Go, and return an old Franciscan friar; That holy shape becomes a devil best. [ Exit M... ...tion” terrifies not me, For I confound hell in Elysium: My ghost be with the old philosophers! But, leaving these vain trifles of men’s souls, Tell me... ...ine That, after this life, there is any pain? No, these are trifles and mere old wives’ tales. MEPHIST. But I am an instance to prove the contrary, Fo... ...RTINO .] A Sennet. Enter CHARLES the German Emperor, BRUNO, DUKE OF SAXONY, FAUSTUS, MEPHISTOPHILIS, FREDERICK, MARTINO, and Attendants. EMPE... ...hat thrusts his head out at window? EMPEROR. O, wondrous sight!—See, Duke of Saxony, T wo spreading horns most strangely fastened Upon the head of you... ... wo spreading horns most strangely fastened Upon the head of young Benvolio! SAXONY. What, is he asleep or dead? FAUSTUS. He sleeps, my lord; but drea...

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...latter was of a very simple sort. Madame Beaurepas was an excellent little old woman—she was very far ad- vanced in life, and had been keeping a pensi... ... not at all the case. We were simply very bourgeois; we practised the good old Genevese principle of not sacrificing to appear- ances. This is an exce... ...s the deep blue out-gush of the lake, and up the dark steep streets of the old Calvinistic city. The garden faced this way, toward the lake and the ol... ... by a couple of ancient massive posts; the big rusty grille contained some old-fashioned iron-work. The garden was rather mouldy and weedy, tangled an... ...of the human tread. There was the usual allotment of economical widows and old maids, and to maintain the balance of the sexes there were only an old ... ... obliged to retire. We shall go to Dresden.” “To Dresden?” “The capital of Saxony. I had arranged to go there for the autumn, but it will be simpler t...

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...omised to instruct him when they got further on. Dobbin walked home to his old quarters and the Slaugh- ters’, thinking very likely that it would be d... ...re the little garden-gate, to welcome the weeping, trembling, young bride. Old Mr. Clapp, who was in his shirt-sleeves, trimming the garden-plot, shra... ... and whimper- ing and laughing and crying in the parlour and the twilight. Old Mr. Sedley did. He had not divined who was in the carriage when it drov... ... Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a half-guinea to... ...ut to link each other’s arms together, and wander gently downwards towards old age in happy and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on th... ... to himself Poland, and was determined to keep it: another had robbed half Saxony, and was bent upon maintaining his acquisi- tion: Italy was the obje...

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...hem out, by his per- petual impecuniosity and slippery dealing; and in his old age he has become rather the laughing-stock of historians. But there is... ...s to do anything. Maximilian’s own father was an avaricious, undig- nified old man, not until near his death Archduke of even all Austria, and with an... ...s un- der a sort of enchantment of devotion to his person, and this in his old age, and when his conduct was most inexcusable and provoking. His varie... ...nd all arts and sciences, the latter including magic—which he learns of an old woman with a long-tailed demon sitting, like Mother Hubbard’s cat, on h... ...he name of Theurdank. The poetry of Theurdank was composed by Maximilian’s old writing-master, Melchior Pfinznig; but the adventures were the Kaisar’s... ... have any doubt after reading such lives as those of Friedrich the Wise of Saxony, of Erasmus, of Vittoria Colonna, or of Cardinal Giustiniani. April ... ...d mind—he felt the power and truth of those theses. He bade the Elector of Saxony well to guard the monk Luther as a treasure. Ah! had he been a young...

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...t of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their... ...ure of the Wicked Nobleman, on which no expense has been spared, and which Old Nick will fetch away at the end of this singular performance. And with ... ... of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little r... ...ton said in her praise, but had many charming qualities which that pompous old Minerva of a woman could not see, from the differences of rank and age ... ...y Mr. Sambo in the carriage, together with a very small and weather-beaten old cow’s-skin trunk with Miss Sharp’s card neatly nailed upon it, which wa... ... to himself Poland, and was determined to keep it: another had robbed half Saxony, and was bent upon maintaining his acquisi- tion: Italy was the obje...

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...ice with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col-... ...is and Peking. Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, their old shoes slapping. The dawn mist spun away. Cues of men with lunch-boxes c... ... as Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particu- lar, neither butte... ... there was the problem, oft-pondered, never solved, of what to do with the old blade, which might imperil the fingers of his young. As usual, he tosse... ... kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive. Aft... ...t, but when this proclamation came out, they rebelled. Or it may have been Saxony. But it just goes to show the dangers of invading the rights of pers...

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...rce, which envelops us here; never-resting whirlwind, high as Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer;... ...ter of their whole mind; adoration had nowhere a place in it. Yet see! The old man of Ferney comes up to Paris; an old, tottering, infirm man of eight... ...ete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God;... ...d not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the e... ...er- haps had a lingering fondness for Paganism, collected certain of their old Pagan songs, just about becoming obsolete then,— Poems or Chants of a m... ...we must hasten to Luther and his Life. LUTHER’S BIRTHPLACE was Eisleben in Saxony; he came into the world there on the 10th of November, 1483. It was ... ...a man of talent and fidelity fit to do their business well: the Elector of Saxony, Friedrich, named the Wise, a truly wise and just prince, had cast h...

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...ation, in especial that of young Henri, Duke of Nemours, who, at ten years old, was said to have been hung up with his little brother of eight in one ... ...s to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de C... ...d lying in regular order upon the field of battle, with their colonel, the old Count de Fuentes, at their head, expiring in a chair, in which he had b... ...ide, Thus shall he breathe his vow: ‘Here sleeps a self-devoted bride, Of old to save her lord she died. 13 Yo n g e She is a spirit now. Hail, br... ...robably only one of the many reasonable versions they tried to give of the old tales that were founded on the decay and revival of nature in win- ter ... ... The like alarm notes rolling. ‘The peal rings out! echoes the shout! All Saxony’s astir; 162 A Book of Golden Deeds Groom, turn aside, swift must w... ... future line of kings. He was the son of the Elector Friedrich the mild of Saxony, and of Margarethe of Austria, whose dream presaged her children’s d...

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...sy coat of his horse. He held himself firm and erect in the saddle like an old cavalry 5 Balzac officer. Even if his black cravat and doeskin gloves,... ...two years’ pay untouched, and never spent his allowances, like some shrewd old men of business with whom cautious prudence has al- most become a mania... ...natural wish to increase the amount of the savings that were to render his old age comfortable. Till the eve of his promotion to the rank of lieutenan... ...btain a cup of milk. All the answer the girl made him was a hoarse cry. An old woman suddenly appeared on the threshold of one of the cabins, and the ... ...rl passed on into a cowshed, with a gesture that pointed out the aforesaid old woman, towards whom Genestas went; taking care at the same time to keep... ...all the kings who came to lick Napoleon’s hand. Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Poland, and Italy, all speaking us fair and going along with us; it...

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......................................................... 149 Chapter 2.4.VI. Old-Dragoon Drouet. .......................................................... ...e Fourth of August, when new Faith rose suddenly into miraculous fire, and old Feudality was burnt up, men remarked that Mirabeau took no hand in it; ... ...e financial performances, which shall astonish mankind. So that now, while old rags last, there shall be no lack of circulating medium; whether of com... ...rch? Adjustment enough, of the most confused sort, has become unavoidable. Old landmarks, in any sense, avail not in a new France. Nay literally, the ... ...l not in a new France. Nay literally, the very Ground is new divided; your old party-coloured Provinces become new uniform Departments, Eighty-three i... ...tes, Austrian and Prussian, with Emigrants, were faring towards Pilnitz in Saxony; there, on the 27th of August, they, keeping to themselves what furt...

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...s or Na- poleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering, ‘These old fools,’ exactly as it is here foretold. These, however, are small detai... ...s are no longer possible in the world, that to attempt to keep on with the old system is to heap disaster upon disaster for mankind and perhaps to des... ...to turn the rush of hu- man affairs demands. The inertia of dead ideas and old insti- tutions carries us on towards the rapids. Only in one direc- tio... ...d each son fled from his stepmother and hid from her lest the anger of the Old Man should be roused. All the world over, even to this day, these ancie... ...t of external Power was slow— rapid in comparison with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- ... ..., boys….’ And presently over the cloud-banks that lay above Westphalia and Saxony the swift aeroplane, with its atomic engine as noiseless as a dancin...

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...m those vices are seen to recoil. And I submit that their recoil upon that old man, in his unhonoured age, is not a mere piece of poetical justice, bu... ...a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records of all old families, with innumerable repeti- 7 Charles Dickens tions of the same... ... the conclu- sion to which they lead, are triumphant and irresistible. The old lady, naturally strong-minded, was nevertheless frail and fading; she w... ...y down upon a little Wiltshire village, within an easy journey of the fair old town of Salisbury. Like a sudden flash of memory or spirit kindling up ... ...isbury. Like a sudden flash of memory or spirit kindling up the mind of an old man, it shed a glory upon the scene, in which its departed youth and fr... ... favour in his button-hole, and a bran new extra super double- milled blue saxony dress coat (that was its description in the bill), with a variety of...

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...ghbour.’ ‘Does she know nothing of the Meadows’ family?’ ‘Nothing but that old Mrs. Meadows lives in the town with one unmarried daughter. She speaks ... ...er had the hap to live with sensible women.’ ‘When their children grew too old for India, she came into some little property at Bayford Bridge, which ... ...drooping and wretched, that he insisted on bringing him home with him, and old Mrs. Meadows and her daughter almost forced him to accept the invitatio... ... very good friends,’ said Albinia, with the sweet smile that few, young or old, could resist. ‘ And this is Gilbert,’ as she kissed the blushing cheek... ...ges, they were all on a larger scale than she had expected, and looked too old for the children of a man of his youthful appearance. Gilbert had the s... ...en you have not that piece? said Albinia. ‘Oh, my dear! Think of that! New Saxony! I begged it of Mr. Holland. A new remnant—pink list, and all! I sai... ...wanted for Master Gilbert. Mr. Holland is always a civil, feeling man. New Saxony—three shillings the yard—and trimmed with blue sarsenet! Where is it...

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...y-eight. Then he retired. He sat by the fireside, a shrivelled, very, very old coachman, full charged with reminiscences, and ready for any careless s... ... the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the smallest of the old surviv- ing village houses in the tail of the High Street had a sub- me... ... a revelation in the possibilities of the Smallways blood. Go-ahead Times! Old Smallways would sit over the fire mumbling of the greatness of other da... ...llways would sit over the fire mumbling of the greatness of other days, of old Sir Peter, who drove his coach to Brighton and back in eight-and-twenty... ...er, who drove his coach to Brighton and back in eight-and-twenty hours, of old Sir Peter’s white top-hats, of Lady Bone, who never set foot to ground ... ...ife, and to thrust the new-found plans between the two layers of imitation Saxony flannel of which it was made. Then with the help of Mr. Butteridge’s...

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...he first ranks of Philosophy, in our Ger- man Temple of Honor.” Mindful of old friendship, the distinguished Professor, in this the first blaze of his... ... that memory and conjecture could do, more and more enigmatic; whereby the old disquietude seemed fast settling into fixed discontent,—when altogether... ... on the part of a Minister, whom domestic embarrassments, court intrigues, old age, and dropsy soon afterwards fi- nally drove from the helm. As for T... ...a single tallow-light, and far enough from the win- dow, nothing save that old calmness and fixedness was visible. These were the Professor’s talking ... ...sts, coffee-pots, tobacco-boxes, Periodical Literature, and Blucher Boots. Old Lieschen (Lisekin, ‘Liza), who was his bed-maker and stove-lighter, his... ... amid the inarticulate barking and bellowing. Apart stood Potters from far Saxony, with their crockery in fair rows; Nurnberg Pedlers, in booths that ...

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...e lady, I shall have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memor... ... secret of this behavior, now dilatory and again hurried, is known only to old women and to certain experi- enced loungers. In this immense assembly t... ...ey of interests is as legible to them as any amus- ing novel. So, to these old hands, this man could not be here by appointment; he would infallibly h... ...let. “Madame la Marquise will explain to you, if you do not know, why that old coat is a little better than the chamberlain’s key and Imperial gold be... ...l, hatched in Mother Vauquer’s coop— you, whose heart failed you to clutch old Taillefer’s millions when the hardest part of the business was done—let... ...tyle of Dresden china, which had cost more than the plate. As to the linen—Saxony, England, Flanders, and France vied in the perfection of flowered da...

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...ually intelligent as men,—an argument in favor of the occult sciences. The old man-servant of Colonel Giguet, Madame Marion’s older brother, had just ... ...the glass door and the two windows of the oblong salon to be kept open. An old lady, Madame Marion herself, now ordered the two maids to place the cha... ...a-table, which was covered with a green cloth, on which she placed a bell. Old Colonel Giguet arrived on this battle-field at the mo- ment when his si... ... a single one of my regular visitors fails us on this occasion—” began the old lady, in a threatening manner. “Pooh, pooh!” replied the colonel, inter... ...ning-judge, four; the justice of peace—” “But I am not so silly,” said the old lady, interrupting her brother in her turn, “as to expect office-holder... ... Sallenauve, “you will find that neither the boasted strata of Bohemia and Saxony nor even those of Russia and Hungary can be compared to those hidden...

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... of religion, such as would now be called that of a sound Churchman of the old school, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance, ruling his fami... ... Coleridge Patteson ing him, step by step, from grace to grace. Five years old is in many cases an age of a good deal of thought. The intelligence is ... ...imself as a future clergyman. Reverence was strongly implanted in him. His old nurse (still his sister’s valued servant) remembers the little seven ye... ...nurse (still his sister’s valued servant) remembers the little seven years old boy, after saying his own prayers at her knee, stand- ing opposite to h... ...ued his faults one by one. Who can tell how far this was fostered by those old-fash- ioned habits of strictness which it is the present habit to view ... ...tteson was fond of discussing the system and organisation of the Church in Saxony. Up to the time of his leaving En- gland he was constantly using Ols...