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...ively by those who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained that no such powe... ...rmous piece of rock fell from the height of the capitol , and carried with it a Roman standard bearer, who was on guard, at the opening of the road... ...d seems connected a lusus nature of ashtree bough, resembling the litui of the Roman augurs and the Christian pastoral staff, which still obtains a... .... Hugh Parsons was indicated for witchcraft. The jury found him guilty; but the magistrates who tried the cause would not agree to it and under a lo... ...cusation; and it was the more readily credited. They were commited by two Salem magistrates the first week in March. Of Osborn we hear no more; but ... ...pretended were the prints of the child‘s little teeth on their arms! The salem magistrates committed this mere infant for witchcraft, but as we hear... ... Sarah Good‘s little daughter, were upon the assumed authority of the two Salem magistrates alone, instigated by Parris. On the 11th of April, Danfor...

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...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft... ...ed; lamps and rugs, hangings VOICES FROM THE PAST 186 and x-shaped Roman chairs, cushions and inlaid boxes brightened the room. Propped on a ... ...in Jerusalem... Your faith is for the little towns and villages where the Romans have less influence or none at all... “When James was here a month ... ...put in jail. VOICES FROM THE PAST 190 I had to go before the local magistrate, affirm his honesty; then he was freed. I said to the magistrat...

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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...w year" is a week later, on January 14. It is all Julius Caesar's fault ... The Romans sometimes neglected to introduce an extra month every two... ...at he could hardly have conceived. In a Durban court, he was asked by the European magistrate to take off his turban; he refused and left the court... ...most often leaves and corncobs. French royals employed lace, hardy Vikings - wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times i...

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...o; “dormice are bad neighbors for us who do not eat them preserved, as the Romans did.” “What? Did the Romans eat them?” said the gardener — “ate dor-... ... Danglars. “Oh, do not give me credit for this, madame; it was done by the Romans, who much esteemed them, and Pliny relates that they sent slaves fro... ...en, he conducted her by a private passage to M. de Villefort’s office. The magistrate was seated in an arm-chair, writing, with his back towards the d... ...e, that could not be. Dead bodies are not kept a year; they are shown to a magistrate, and the evidence is taken. Now, nothing of the kind has happene... ...ay long there?” “An hour and a half.” “Did she return home?” “Directly.” * Magistrate and orator of great eloquence — chancellor of France under Louis... ...replied the stranger, “is so well known to the prefect that he wishes as a magistrate to ascertain from you some particu- lars connected with the publ... ...eed blush before the world, such may read each other’s hearts. I never was romantic, and am no melancholy hero. I imitate neither Manfred nor Anthony;... ...my lord and master.” This was said in excellent Tuscan, and with that soft Roman accent which makes the language of Dante as sono- rous as that of Hom... ...nd proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes. Brunehilde and Fredegonde were the...

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...t him outlive, and die a violent death.’ Why, this is just ‘Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse .’ Well, to the rest: ‘Tell me what fate awaits the... ...at this my death may never be forgot! Great men oft die by vile bezonians: A Roman sworder and banditto slave Murder’d sweet Tully; Brutus’ bastard ha... ..., Part Two, Act IV , scene ii 63 tion; which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be laboring men; and therefore should we be magistrates. BEVI...

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... 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... ...clude ever growing segments of the world, conflicts became inevitable. Still, early Roman historians, patriotic to a fault, always describe Roman w... ...hile allies and either conquered or otherwise absorbed them into its body politic. Roman commanders and procurators meddled in the internal affairs... ...ined in the centuriate assembly (the army as a voting collective) and the consuls, magistrates in chief were, invariably, former army generals. Tho...

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...l, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, or the Adalberts and Mombreuses of romance. Af- ter all, the names of the principal characters will be quite a... ...al, which communicated likewise with 14 The Collection of Antiquities the magistrate’s deliberating chamber, used by the d’Esgrignons as a dining-roo... ... 221 deputies. By taking up this position, he could keep in touch with the magistrates and local officials and the capitalists of the de- partment. Du... ..., lent themselves admirably, so far as was com- patible with their duty as magistrates, to the design of letting off the offender as easily as possibl... ... the Marquis d’Esgrignon looked exactly as any imagination with a touch of romance could wish. He was almost bald, but a fringe of silken, white locks... ...pping in the company of one Blondet, younger son of a miserable provincial magistrate, with whom you would not shake hands down yonder; and in ten yea... ... she lost her heart to Victurnien had made up her mind to play the part of romantic Innocence, a role much understudied subsequently by other women, f... ...arisian women are clever enough always to give a new charm to the moon, to romanticize the stars, to roll in the same sack of charcoal and emerge each... ...in V enice; and there they would forget the world. They went through their romance in advance. Next day Victurnien made out a bill for three hundred t...

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...g but “Mademoiselle” even during the Revolution. Whoever has read the fine romance of “Rob Roy” will re- member that rare woman for whose making Walte... ...all of extraordinary thickness built in brick and cement like those of the Romans, and received all the waters. Michu closed the entrance to this retr... ...meuse and d’Hauteserre. No one in these days, unless it be some antiquated magistrates, will remember this system of justice, which Napoleon was even ... ...at full gallop, and soon returned in a post-carriage with the all-powerful magistrate. The director of the Troyes jury was formerly secretary of one o... ...the Convention, a friend of Malin, to whom he owed his present place. This magistrate, named Lechesneau, had helped Malin, as Grevin had done, in his ... ...the people, now become the enemies of the Emperor. In such circumstances a magistrate is very apt to take mere presumptive evidence for actual proof. ... ...carriage, it did occur to Lechesneau (who would certainly have made a fine magistrate had it not been for his love-affair, and the Emperor’s sudden mo...

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...ships, the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family... ...f our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they are not yet clear of the... ...rue the beggar was sup- posed in time to make a return, somewhat as by the Roman contract of mutuum. But the obligation was only moral; it could not b... ...e Sa, the “Forbidden Soil,” or Neutral Territory of the treaties; that the magistrate whom he has just seen trying native criminals is no officer of t... ...randeis. The new actor was Brandeis, a Bavarian captain of artillery, of a romantic and adventurous charac- ter. He had served with credit in war; but... ...iod, an adventurer of the name of Gibson. He claimed, on the strength of a romantic story, to be the heir of a great English house. He had played a pa... ...ial for this horrid fact: not before a native judge, but before the German magistrate of the tripartite munici- pality of Apia. One was acquitted, one... ... three consuls, the case was by a majority of two to one re- turned to the magistrate and (as far as I can learn) was then allowed to drop. Consul Bec... ... was repeated and persevered in till the end. Otto Martin was at this time magistrate in the municipal- ity. The post was held in turn by the three na...

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...his dish is too common and vulgar; for what else is the subject of all the romances, novels, plays, and poems, with which the stalls abound? Many exqu... ...udy, and spoke to her as follows: “You know, child, it is in my power as a magistrate, to punish you very rigorously for what you have done; and you w... ...der manner with you: for, as no private resentment should ever influence a magistrate, I will be so far from considering your having deposited the inf... ...e name of saint equally with her namesake, or with any other female in the Roman kalendar. As sympathies of all kinds are apt to beget love, so expe... ...ssion; and Horace, in one of his epistles, makes honourable mention of the Roman barbers in the same light. Those of England are known to be no wise... ...ght. Those of England are known to be no wise inferior to their Greek or Roman predecessors. You there see foreign affairs discussed in a manner lit... ... out some what of the utility of this practice. I am convinced that awful magistrate my lord mayor contracts a good deal of that reverence which atte... ...n foro conscientiae; since so many arbitrary acts are daily com mitted by magistrates who have not this excuse to plead for themselves. Tom was no ... ...which brook did not come there, as such gentle streams flow through vulgar romances, with no other purpose than to murmur. No! For tune had decreed t...

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...himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England?s Elizabeth....

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...mpted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice,... ...e pas- sage, the reader will find the authority I had for the story of the romance:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a m... ...t Bessellsey, or with the old Knight at Wootton, or in some other of their Roman dens, instead of living in a house of public entertainment, as every ... ...he Isis.” Honest Giles, therefore, satisfied himself that his guest was no Roman, and with all comely courtesy besought the stranger to pledge him in ... ... Michael Lambourne; “but if so, keep thee well from me, Sir Knight, as the romance has it. I will either share your counsels or traverse them; for I h... ... The freedom of the corporation was presented to the Earl upon knee by the magistrates of the place, together with a purse of gold pieces, which the E... ... repelled with the strong hand, as well as with scorn. You can apply to no magistrate for aid or countenance; and you are hunting, therefore, a shadow... ...hy gipsy cant!” replied T ressilian scornfully, “and follow me to the next magistrate, or I will cut thee over the pate.” “Peace, I pray thee, good Wa... ...the more precise cast, who chanced to have considerable influence with the magistrates. But the general- ity of the inhabitants had petitioned the Que...

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...b that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It consisted, like pre-Roman Gaul, of three parts. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a con-... ...od God!” said Mr. Stanley. “Good-looking rascal she met at Worthing. V ery romantic and all that. He fixed it.” “But—” “He left her alone. Pure romant... ...cted. Except for a few early ebullitions of passion, natural to a warm and romantic disposition, and leaving no harmful after-effects—ebullitions that... ...or a kiss, and touching hands lights fires that burn up lives—the world of romance, the world of passionately beautiful things. But that other world, ... ...enly into another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. Had romance to be banished from life? … It was hard to part with romance, but s... ...ca was disconcerted for a moment. She had a vision of policemen, reproving magistrates, a crowded court, public disgrace. She saw her aunt in tears, h... ...table carried her through the circumstances of her ap- pearance before the magistrate. He was no doubt doing his best to express the attitude of socie... ...olled herself, and answered meekly, “No.” “Well, Ann V eronica Smith,” the magistrate remarked when the case was all before him, “you’re a good-lookin...

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...tance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, another a young Centurion of a Roman Legion stationed in England, another a builder and decorator of King ... ...m without my leave. I made it right afterwards. So, as Dad says—and he’s a magistrate—, it wasn’t a legal offence; it was only compounding a felony. ‘... ...o your herbs and planets,’ said Puck, laughing. ‘Y ou should have told the magistrates, Nick, and had Jack fined. Again, why did you neglect your plai...

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...ces are usually received. In Bleak House I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHA... ..., which has never changed since he courted her, is the one little touch of romantic fancy in him. Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goe... ...s paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea of a romantic youth who had undergone some unique process of depreciation. It st... ...gentleman came from London only last night by the mail, on business at the magistrates’ meeting, ten miles off, this morning, and that as their busi ... ...l his later life. Would you suppose him to have a head and a heart full of romance yet?” “I think, guardian, I might have supposed so. But it is easy ... ...echambers still remain; and even its painted ceilings, where Allegory , in Roman helmet and celestial linen, sprawls among balustrades and pillars, fl... ...s chambers Mr. Tulkinghorn sits meditating an ap plication to the nearest magistrate to morrow morning for a warrant. Gridley, a disappointed suitor,... ...ng with me, upon this warrant, and having a good angry argument before the magistrates? It’ll do you good; it’ll freshen you up and get 351 Bleak Hou... ...defend himself.” “Certainly, sir. And I have done so. I have stated to the magistrates, ‘Gentlemen, I am as innocent of this charge as yourselves; wha...

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...ght, shrieked aloud, and fled into the woods, where, as de- scribed in the romance, she roamed a raving maniac, and for some time secreted herself fro... ...s arrayed in heath of the darkest purple. In the present times, a scene so romantic would have been judged to pos- sess the highest charms for the tra... ...honourable ambassador has been hanged as a spy before now. Neither did the Romans use ambassadors much more mercifully at the siege of Capua, although... ...ow’ d The mansion, which received them from the road. —The T ravellers, A Romance. Angus M’Aulay was charged with a message which he seemed to find s... ..., a person dressed in black velvet, and wearing a gold chain like a modern magistrate of Edinburgh, but who was, in fact, steward of the household to ... ...y rapid marches up the river Tay, and poured his desultory forces into the romantic vale around the lake of the same name, which lies at the head of t...

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...lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Ta-r-... ...Daughter with him, refusing to quit him. Why, O Cazotte, wouldst thou quit romancing, and Diable Amoureux, for such reality as this? Poor old M. de So... ... like;—and having given it well forth, shall depart by the death they call Roman. Sieyes old-Constituent comes; to make new Constitutions as many as w... ...e world, was, with difficulty, and days of tough fighting, checked here by Roman Aetius and Fortune; and his dust- cloud made to vanish in the East ag... ...ly it is all altered: from King down to Parish Constable, all Authorities, Magistrates, Judges, persons that bore rule, have had, on the sudden, to al... ...ons, energetically demanding him back; demanding not arrestment of Popular Magistrates, but of a traitorous Twenty-two. Section comes flying after Sec... ...ng taken new oath of office, we on a sudden find ourselves Insurrectionary Magistrates, with extraneous Committee of Ninety-six sitting by us; and a C... ...onvention which casts us Hors la loi, into Outlawry: placarded by our Caen Magistrates;—clear hint that we also are to vanish. Vanish, indeed: but whi... ...s, while men search for him: has hairbreadth escapes that would fill three romances: finally he gets to Paris to his fair Helpmate; gets to Switzer- l...

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...r or so. For many years the business had struggled along with a flavour of romantic insecurity in a small, dissolute-looking shop in the High Street, ... ... a bicycle started out from their hands in a state of pedantic efficiency. Romantic possi- bilities of accident lurked in the worn thread of the screw... ...te equipment for a balloon ascent: a ham- per which included a game pie, a Roman pie, a cold fowl, tomatoes, lettuce, ham sandwiches, shrimp sandwiche... ...he was hungry. He felt, in the dark, in the locker, put his fingers in the Roman pie, and got some sandwiches, and he also opened rather successfully ... ...mes, a solitary balloonist—replacing. the solitary horseman of the classic romances—might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a nor... ...h flag still flying in the air, and trying to brisk up mayor and mayor and magistrate and magistrate in a new 236 The War in the Air effort of organi...

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... ment shall have its Pasted Journal; Louvet, busy yet with a new ‘charming romance, ’ shall write Sentinelles, and post them with effect; nay Bertrand... ...four years ago, quitted the grim durance;—to fall into a grim- mer, of the Roman Inquisition, and not quit it. But, after all, what is this Bastille b... ... the frontiers; expecting that, one of these mornings, the Executive Chief Magistrate will be brought over to them, and the civil war commence.’ (Carr... ...per, 1st Feb. 1791 (in Hist. Parl. ix. 39).) If indeed the Executive Chief Magistrate, bagged, say in one of these leather cows, were once brought saf... ...and now sits here as two- years Senator: a notable Condorcet, with stoical Roman face, and fiery heart; ‘volcano hid under snow;’ styled like- wise, i... ...im also we behold again, af- ter a day or two: in flight, through the most romantic Petrarchan hill-country; vehemently spurring his nag; young Ligonn... ...: he is, say the Newspaper Report- ers, ‘M. Louvet, Author of the charming Romance of Faublas. ’ Steady, ye Patriots! Pull not yet two ways; with a Fr...

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... of my station might be supposed to entertain. In the pen of this nameless romancer, I seemed to possess something like the secret fountain of coined ... ...d was the project of that complete and corrected edition of his Novels and Romances (whose real parentage had of necessity been dis- closed at the mom... ...the beauty, grace, talent, accomplish- ment, and wit to which a heroine of romance is supposed to have a prescriptive right. If the portrait was recei... ...own brook, sometimes bordered by steep banks of earth, often with the more romantic boundary of naked rocks or cliffs crested with oak, mountain ash, ... ...hways is but like a kennel; the little hill is diminished to a hillock—the romantic hillock to a molehill, almost too small for sight. Such an enormit... ... While he asked for peace and for composition, and offered submission to a magistrate, or to a mutual arbiter, the prisoner was insulted by a whole co... ...ediately to Inverary, to make his submission in a legal manner before that magistrate. But the way to Inverary lay through almost impassable mountains...

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...de swellings for a regular sea, I settle on some British theme, some old 180 Romantic tale by Milton left unsung; More often resting at some gentle pl... ... the cloud of years, became That Odin, father of a race by whom Perished the Roman Empire; how the friends 190 And followers of Sertorius, out of Spai... ...eliction and dismay, I yet Despair not of our nature; but retain A more than Roman confidence, a faith 465 That fails not, in all sorrow my support, Th... ...en Such sights before among the shining streams Of fairyland, the forests of romance— Thence came a spirit hallowing what I saw With decoration and id... ...hink not, what they do. The tales that charm away the wakeful night In Araby—romances, legends penned For solace by the light of monkish lamps; Fictio... ... 765 Objects of general concern, till, moved With pity for their wrongs, the magistrate (The same who had placed the youth in custody) By application ...