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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ...workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or a... ... the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such... ...what is ridiculous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with... ...changes moral, changes physical, changes in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of o... ...me on my return say of St. Peter’s at Rome, or the Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople, it would be at once improving to you and agreeable to my fe...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ... too, is roaming, with a characteristic delight in aridity and dust, about Constantinople. Other dispersed fragments of the same great palladium are t...

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...owing this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A DISTINGUISHED PROVINCIAL AT PARIS PART I MME. DE... ...o discern the meaning of certain smiles which flit- ted over Louise’s lips from time to time; and instead of keep- ing himself to himself, he indulged... ...mself to himself, he indulged in the playfulness of the young rat emerging from his hole for the first time. The travelers were set down before daybre... ...the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse for wear. Some people no longer look the same when detached from the background of faces, ... ...of the Council to introduce you to those houses; but you will meet so many people at Mme. d’Espard’s, that you are not likely to require me. So far fr... ... newcomers, was much more interested in the things that he saw than in the people he met. The general effect of Paris is wholly en- grossing at first.... ...ed from every narrow doorway, crying up the merits of Cosmoramas, views of Constantinople, marionettes, automatic chess-players, and performing dogs w...

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...neaded by a hand more daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used thes... ...ment that I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it fo... ...was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “ A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present momen... ...constitution which the least toil wearied. She was truly a daughter of the people of Paris, where children, seldom handsome, and of no vigor, the prod... ...ceably too small and ending in a point like the nose of a mouse, made some people fear she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which we... ...a new dynasty, a royalty of its own, and behold how it treats it! When the people allowed Napoleon to rise to power, it created with him a splendid an... ...to me,” replied Theodose, “that barristers at the Palais are like Turks at Constantinople, where a friend of mine affirmed you could see a good many. ...

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... 48 By Testament haue giuen to the Church, 49 Would they strip from vs; being valu’d thus, 50 As much as would maintaine, to the Kin... ...ed in him any studie, 99 Any retyrement, any sequestration, 100 From open Haunts and Popularitie. 101 B.Ely. The Strawberry growes... ... 131 And generally, to the Crowne and Seat of France, 132 Deriu’d from Edward, his great Grandfather. - 3 - The Life of Henry the Fift Shak... ... Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach 336 The Act of Order to a peopled Kingdome. 337 They haue a King, and Officers of sorts, 338 ... ...erefore, you men of Harflew, 1287 Take pitty of your Towne and of your People, 1288 Whiles yet my Souldiers are in my Command, 1289 Whiles... ...in France: let vs quit all, 1383 And giue our Vineyards to a barbarous People. 1384 Dolph. O Dieu viuant: Shall a few Sprayes of vs, 13... ...pound a Boy, halfe French halfe English, [k1v 3196 that shall goe to Constantinople, and take the Turke by 3197 the Beard. Shall wee not? wh...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de... ....................................... 132 4 Balzac DROLL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BA... ...and because he perceives many mischievous fellows among the crowd of noisy people, who ignore at plea- sure the real object of these volumes. In the f... ...rupeds, that the word is wrong? No. It was certainly heard by a great many people at the time; but in these days of deep wretchedness you believe noth... ..., as is shown in this the author’s naive confession. Certain evil-disposed people will still cry out at this; but can you find a man perfectly content... ... that this prince had the loftiest aspirations—such as to conquer Morocco, Constantinople, Jerusalem, the lands 89 Droll Stories- V ol. Three of Soud...

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...was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually ...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ...ey company first occasioned the establishment of an ordinary ambassador at Constantinople. The first English embassies to Russia arose altogether from... ...ns which the turbulence of the Greek clergy was continually occasioning at Constantinople, as long as the eastern empire subsisted; the con- vulsions ... ...mild government of Paris, to that of the violent and furious government of Constantinople. But though this order of men can scarce ever be forced, the...

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...ry Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held ...

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.... W alker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors’ business that had to be done in that pa... ...ave to bring yourself to believe it,’ said John, with- out taking his eyes from his book. ‘A clergyman—and such a clergyman too!’ ‘I don’t see that th... ...se he’s a clergyman. I hate all that kind of clap-trap. There are a lot of people here in Silverbridge who think the matter shouldn’t be followed up, ... ...ng of it,’ said Mary. ‘I daresay it is, my dear.’ ‘ And when one knows the people it does make it so dread- ful.’ ‘But do you know them? I never spoke... ...than she was with her son. While they were thus talking the father came in from his office, and then the sub- ject was dropped. He was a man between f... ...er husband guilty?’ ‘No, indeed. She think him guilty! Nothing on earth—or from heaven either, as I take it, would make her suppose it to be possible.... ...rds. He—the dean—had been delayed in his Eastern travels. Neither Syria or Constantinople had got themselves done as quickly as he had expected, and h...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...icles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not follo... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...rable, built of brick and stone. Its inhabitants consist of four different people; the Scots, the Picts, the Saxons and the ancient Britons. 8. Three ... ...ianus and Theodosius reigned eight years. At that time a synod was held at Constantinople, attended by three hundred and fifty of the fathers, and in ...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...go since Sir Hiram Maxim made the first machine that could lift its weight from the ground, and I well remember how the clumsy quality of that success... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien... ...ork of all sorts comes under this head. What to do with the pariah dogs of Constantinople, what to do with the tramps who sleep in the London parks, h...

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...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...o prevent that, we will suppose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ... morality is oftentimes *This is not generally perceived. On the contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language i... ...s in the embarrassments of the cen- tral government, whether at Rome or at Constantinople, when arguing at one time a pestilence, at another an insur-... ...e eastern horn of that empire, and in point of time from the foundation of Constantinople as an eastern Rome, in the fourth century, to a period not f... ...l further concurrence or coalition with the views of the Byzantine Caesar. Constantinople was from that date thrown back more upon its own peculiar he...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ...4, and Justinian began his reign in 527. v. 6. At Europe’s extreme point.] Constantinople being situated at the extreme of Europe, and on the borde... ...ist. de Esp. l. xiv. c. 2. v. 128. Chrysostom.] The eloquent patriarch of Constantinople. v. 128. Anselmo.] “Anselm, Archbishop of Canter bury, wa...

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...var Horsetail. Onund was the brother of Gudbjorg, the mother of Gudbrand Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father?s relations were mostly in Rogaland and Hordland. He was a great viking and used to harry away in the West over the sea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Bla...

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...Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father’s relations were mostly in Rogaland a... ...ea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Blaeing from Sotanes, and by Orm the Wealthy. Another comrade of theirs was named... ...ltitude led by Kjotvi the Wealthy, Thorir Long chin, and Soti and King Sulki from South Rogaland. Geirmund Swarthyskin was then away in the West, beyo... ...Norway. There are many accounts of it, for one always hears much about those people of whom the saga is told. Troops had come in from all the country... ...him Audun Nannygoat. The Saga of Grettir the Strong 12 When the farmers and people about heard of the disturbances they all came out to help the jar]... ...later Asgrim went to Hallsteinn’s house and gave him a severe wound. All the people who were present started up and attacked Asgrim. He defended himse... ...nk, from whom many are descended. CHAPTER LXXXV THORBJORN GOES TO NORWAY AND CONSTANTINOPLE THORBJORN A NGLE EMBARKED AT G ASAR with as much of his ... ...o he made ready to leave Norway, embarked, and did not stop until he reached Constantinople, and obtained service there. CHAPTER LXXXVI GRETTIR’S DEAT... ... WAS A WEALTHY MAN and highly thought of. On hearing of Angle’s departure to Constantinople he handed over his property to his kinsmen and followed hi...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...hem, I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manc...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...e other blue; and not the green and blue chariots in the circus of Rome or Constantinople excited more tur- moil among the citizens than the double ap...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...he play- bills, and the gingybear bottles in the window—above all, by the “Constantinople” Divan, kep by the Misses Mordeky, and well known to every l... ... lover of “a prime sigaw and an exlent cup of reel Moky Coffy for 6d.” The Constantinople Divann is greatly used by the foring gents of Lester Squar. ... ...lam; and of this back-parlor and baggytell-bord, of this counter, of this “Constantinople” Divan, he became almost as reglar a frequenter as the plast...

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... before either come; and our dissolution is conceived in these first changes, quickned in the sicknes it selfe, and borne in death, which beares date from these first changes. Is this the honour which Man hath by being a litle world, That he hath these earthquakes in him selfe, sodaine shakings; these lightnings, sodaine flashes; these thunders, sodaine noises; these Eclyp...

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...s, quickned in the sicknes it selfe, and borne in death, which beares date from these first changes. Is this the honour which Man hath by being a litle... ...in the labor of my calling, and I have it; and I sweat againe, and againe, from the brow, to the sole of the foot, but I eat no bread, I tast no suste... ...e, he found him flat upon the ground; when he comes to withdraw that breath from him againe, hee prepares him to it, by laying him flat upon his bed. Sc... ... week, what moneth. Here the head lies as low as the foot; the Head of the people, as lowe as they, whome those feete trod upon; And that hande that s... ...to a wretched private man, dyed of so poore a Joy, as to be declard by the people at a Theater, that hee was a good Poet. We say often that a Man may ... ... in States too? somtimes the insolency of those that are great, put[s] the people into commotions; the great disease, and the reatest danger to the He... ...e than the harmony of the spheres, but is more heard. When the Turkes took Constantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I have heard both Bell...

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...ed by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which in- cluded diplom... ...to power, and Machiavelli lost his office. The Medici again ruled Florence from 1512 until 1527, when they were once more driven out. This was the per... ...rvice of the free Republic of Florence, which flourished, as stated above, from the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 until their return in 1512. After ... ...fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. This is a very noticeable principle in M... ...e Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture. The new Medicean people, Leo X, procured his release, and he re- tired to his small property... ...ent should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to... ...y ran more danger than at any other time of their troubles. The Emperor of Constantinople,* to oppose his neighbours, sent ten thousand Turks into Gre...

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... most of its light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from thereabove neither knows how nor is able to recount; because, drawing ... ...into my breast, and breathe thou in such wise as when thou drewest Marsyas from out the sheath of his limbs. O divine Power, if thou lend thyself to m... ...nd. The lamp of the world rises to mortals through different passages, but from that which joins four circles with three crosses it issues with better... ... me what are the dusky marks of this body, which there below on earth make people fable about Cain?” 6 She smiled somewhat, and then she said, “If the... ...lown to the sorrow of Lucretia, in seven kings, conquering the neighboring peoples round about. Thou knowest what it did when borne by the illustri- o... ... revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacrifice an... ... of Canterbury in 1093, died 1109; magnus et subtilis doctor in theologia.”Constantinople. 37 The compiler of the treatise on grammar (the first of t... ... to have ceded Rome to the Pope, and by transferring the seat of empire to Constantinople, he made the laws and the eagle Greek. 9 William H., son of...