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...a foolish bequest?” “If you mean to hinder everybody from having money but saints and evan gelists, you must give up some profitable partnerships, tha... ...opy ing. I must put something of my own in. Naumann has been painting the Saints drawing the Car of the Church, and I have been making a sketch of Ma... ...xplicable canopied thrones with the simple country as a background, and of saints with ar chitectural models in their hands, or knives accidentally w... ...be anxious about a soul that is always snapping at you must be left to the saints of the earth; and Mary was not one of them. She had never returned h... ... light over valley and river and white mountain top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns and glass panels? Will, too, was made of very im pressibl... ... to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. At home, that same evening when he had been chat...

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...f the World, a series of letters supposed to be writ- ten from London by a Chinese. No man had the art of displaying with more advantage as a writer, ... ...hey believe god to be there, and they adore him.’ Boswell. ‘The worship of Saints?’ Johnson. ‘Sir, they do not worship saints; they invoke them; they ... ...us as they recommend them- selves to the tutelary protection of particular saints. I think their giving the sacrament only in one kind is criminal, be...

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...h an air of restrained animation as he stood sip- ping tea from a delicate Chinese handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were l... ... to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with in- fants in arms met him to thank ... ...ng some dried bread with her, had spent two days in the catacombs with the saints. “I’d pray awhile to one, ponder awhile, then go on to another. I’d ... ... Rostovs, came to Moscow to pay her devotions at the shrines of the Moscow saints. She suggested that Natasha should fast and prepare for Holy Communi... ..., was alone at Bald Hills and was sitting indoors reading the Lives of the Saints. On hearing that Prince Andrew had come, he went out with his spec- ... ... of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its in- numerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says th... ...t is the highest class, re- spected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the ... ... icons, and now for- bade Father Augustin to remove icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and t...

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...f their eyes? The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—b... ...ants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Na...

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...ou remember how Mrs. Ward’s sister told us that a whole crowd of tottering Chinese ladies would lean on her, because they felt her firm support, thoug... ... come to the same holy place, and in the meantime realise the Communion of Saints. Then they said the Lord’s Prayer, he blessed them, and they arose. ... ...e denied choosing that for his sub- ject. We reproached him with legendary saints, and over- whelmed him with antiquarianism, to show that the Marga- ... ... said Ethel, not in too complimentary a strain. “Yachting, farming, Cochin-Chinese—or something,” said Flora. “Anything not so wearing as this!” “That...

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...right to ask; I know that men must have faults, I do not expect them to be saints; I am not one; I wish I were.” “Has it never struck me … ?” Laetitia... ...for a sen- tence, “that humps her back in the figure of the letter H, or a Chinese bridge has given the dog her answer and her rea- sons, we may presu...