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... what he saw. The eyes of the Storyteller were like doors unto a soul more ancient than anything Theo could have imagined. Here was a being that had ... ...get to know. He just sits around on his old rock and does calculations on ancient parchments. Sometimes he sings under his breath in strange languag... ...what you could possibly do with it – unless you happen to be a scholar in ancient languages?’ Omar handed Theo a large book bound in leather. Its co... ...moved the Hoomans to great and terrible deeds over the ages. One of these centres of energy they now call Israel, and the continents can be seen to ... ...hare the latest news from all corners of India. This sadhu recently met a pilgrim who had returned from paying his re- spects to Jadooji in the mount... ... them!’ They weaved their way through the crowded square that teemed with pilgrims, rich Indians on holiday and locals drinking tea – all of whom wa... ...s seemed to belong to an old man and a child at the same time. ‘So, young pilgrim, what do you think of India so far?’ he said. ‘At f rst it freaked...

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... Hitler's Germany to Austria's doorstep. Thus, the Ustasha established training centres (more like refugee camps, as they included the family me... ... was able to expand its presence in Albania, mainly in its training and operations centres near Kukes, Ljabinot (near Tirana) and Bajram Curi. A... ...attitudes are permissive rather than puritanical, even though his emancipation from ancient taboos brings him no sexual peace. Fiercely competitive ... ...as Moslems. Everybody shared miraculous sites, icons, even prayers. Orthodox Slavs pilgrims to the holy places in Palestine were titled "Hadzi" and... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...s continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Ancient World. This derision was partially eroded during the Dar... ...ment of the borderline traits - as evidenced by the self-flagellation of the Shiite pilgrims - self-mutilation and self-infliction of pain has some ...

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...ave remarked that a true delineation of the smallest man, and his scene of pilgrimage through life, is capable of interesting the greatest man; that a... ...honestly read;—and, in particular, if any im- age of John Sterling and his Pilgrimage through our poor Nineteenth Century be one day wanted by the wor... ...d by my earliest footsteps, are completely lost to my memory; and of those ancient walls among which I began to breathe, I retain no recollection more... ... of an exact scholar, or technical proficient at any time in either of the ancient literatures. But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various m... ... to which (onwards from 1828, as would appear) he was already an assiduous pilgrim. Concerning whom, and Sterling’s all-important connection with him,... ...ticking ostrich- like your head into fallacies on Earth, equally as by the ancient and by all conceivable methods,—is forever for- bidden. High-treaso... ...rlyle also was deep and constant; and indeed these were prop- erly his two centres,—poles of the same axis, negative and positive, the one presupposin...

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...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...f human creative art—as, for example, the “De Imitatione Christi,” or “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” or” Robinson Crusoe,” or “The Vicar of Wakefield,”—was... ...ockery and banter is ill applied to ques- tions that at any time have been centres of fear, and hope, and mysterious awe, to long trains of human gene... ...ood, several beautiful T urkish females; and a great number of defenceless pilgrims (mostly old men), who, returning from Mecca, fell into their power...

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...n a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they... ...king and dwindling; many of them had closed al- together. In the new great centres of population multitudes of children were sweated in the factories,... ...ience is the organised conquest of Nature, and I can quite understand that ancient libertine refusing to cooperate in her own undoing. And I can quite... ...housand places round and about London, and round and about the other great centres of population in the world. Indeed it is in a measure the quality o... ...me roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market-house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have st... ... both of us curious why there were Malays in Madagascar, and how the Mecca pilgrims came from the East Indies before steamships were available. Nei- t... ...n the way. It gave him a startling quality of living knowledge. From these pilgrims we got to a comparative treat- 60 The New Machiavelli ment of rel... ... the sexual mystery, coming in with a sort of confused avidity towards the centres of the life of London. It is only by such an effort to write it dow... ...; big enduring things!” One evening we walked up to the loggia of a little pilgrim- age church, I forget its name, that stands out on a conical hill a...

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... to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. L... ...survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 1... ...survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 1... ...h of an idea. The emigrants, or, as they deservedly styled themselves, the Pilgrims, belonged to that English sect the austerity of whose principles h... ...ore. The author thus continues his narrative of the departure of the first pilgrims:— “So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden,* which ha... ...n their resting-place for above eleven years; but they knew that they were pilgrims and strangers here below, and looked not much on these things, but... ...n in the United States; there society governs itself for itself. All power centres in its bosom; and scarcely an individual is to be meet with who wou... ... the secondary bodies.* *For instance, the direction of public instruction centres in the hands of the Government. The legislature names the members o... ...agistrate had been en- trusted in elective countries inevitably became the centres of passion and of cabal; that they sometimes usurped an au- thority...

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...ee. In her transit, however, the hostess was checked by the arrival of fresh pilgrims; she had no idea she had mentioned the occasion to so many peopl... ... was doing; he only had a general sense that such places were national nerve centres, and that the more one looked in, the more one was ‘on the spot.’... ...ot the great thing that you couldn’t learn, a kind of divine afflatus, as the ancients used to say, and she had better just begin on that. He wouldn’t ... ...ommander in chief. With this view the two young women had made more than one pilgrimage to Roxbury, and on one of these occa sions the sibylline mood... ...was very agreeable to Verena to learn that her visitor had made this arduous pilgrimage (for she knew well enough how people in Boston regarded a wint... ...nt; ‘the sort of thing you would miss very much if you were to return to the ancient fold.’ ‘The ancient fold, you say very well, where women were sla... ...e to study here.’ ‘Yes; I presume you feel yourself drawn to any place where ancient prejudices are garnered up,’ she answered, not without archness. ...

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...e of theirs, they had to hope and to fear, to do and to forbear doing. The Pilgrim’s Progress is an Allegory, and a beautiful, just and serious one: b... ... poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays,—this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet un- encumbered with these things, did for itse... ...uld do. I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism... ...ther- wise as if bottomless and shoreless. So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the... ...turned towards it, five times, this day and all days: one of the notablest centres in the Habitation of Men. It had been from the sacredness attached ... ...om the sacredness attached to this Caabah Stone and Hagar’s Well, from the pilgrimings of all tribes of Arabs thither, that Mecca took its rise as a T... ... the sea; its provisions, its very bread, have to be imported. But so many pilgrims needed lodgings: and then all places of pilgrimage do, from the fi...

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...better displayed than in questions of conduct. There is a character in the Pilgrim’s Progress, one Mr. Linger-after-Lust with whom I fancy we are all ... ... stood by their bedside in the morning when they woke; and all about their ancient cities, where they bought and sold, or where they piped and wrestle... ...raise, and honoured with public monuments in the streets of our commercial centres. This is very bewildering to the moral sense. Y ou have Joan of Arc... ...careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals. Our offspring would no more think of co... ... then, what is’t?” “Indeed, sir, as a time may soon come for me to go upon Pilgrimage, I am desirous to note what is commonly done by persons in my ca... ...some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in a... ... than the other, as though they were all in a wager. And all these foolish pilgrims would each bring his own misery along with him, in a watch- pocket...

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...e envelop this present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Di... ...de Paris (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 318).) Nay there is one death-doer, of the ancient Meot sort, who, with effort, has done even less and worse: slain a ... ... Moderate, perhaps Aristocrat, Royalist or Federalist Mayors! Chalier, who pilgrimed to Paris ‘to behold Marat and the Mountain, ’ has verily kindled ... ...ecome National too! A mad vitality of Jacobinism, with Forty-four Thousand centres of activity, circulates through all fibres of France. Very notable ... ...vement, ’ blessing Heaven at sight of Federation Programs or like; then he pilgrimed to Paris, to worship Marat and the Mountain: now Marat and he are... ... of promptitude and luck, to be allowed to march through. Hasten, ye weary pilgrims! The country is getting up; noise of you is bruited day after day,... ...the tools and emblems of their crafts; among which we notice a Plough, and ancient Baucis and Philemon seated on it, drawn by their children. Many- vo...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest... ...” The idea needs explanation. He says something incom- prehensible about a pilgrimage. “Sooner or later,” I say, “you will have to believe there are t... ... stupen- dous libraries, and a mighty organisation of museums. About these centres will cluster a great swarm of people, and close at hand will be ano... ...d more permanent relations, that swept aside obstructions, and abol- ished centres of decay; there were prejudices tempered to an ordered criticism, a... ...clean out of the world. Certain great areas are set apart for these yearly pilgrim- ages beyond the securities of the State. There are thousands of sq... ... my own. But when I go among snows and desola- tions—and usually I take my pilgrimage in mountains or the north—I think very much of the Night of this... ...ll stable and solid is in that world a freely moving system of interlacing centres of force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this ...

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...riter, Dr. Robertson, and 9 Merry Men by him had been set to work on some papers of an ancient date to rearrange and sift of what was worthless; and ... ... or ChristianaCHRISTIANA, after the good woman, Christian’s wife, in that old book the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’ By her build she was a foreign ship, but ... ...piece, in my memory, and I made sure that these strangers must be Spaniards in quest of ancient treasure and the lost ship of the Armada. But the peop... ...hed them; the name of the eternal city rang in their ears; they were not colonists, but pilgrims; they travelled towards wine and gold and sunshine, b... ...part of the world. Three such pairs as I now carry on my feet have I worn out upon this pilgrimage, and now the fourth is growing slender underneath m... ...ital on stretchers, and all the usual turmoil and agita- tion of men’s lives in crowded centres. Up in Will’s valley only the winds and seasons made a... ...bling of torrents rose from all round; and one could there study all the ruder and more ancient characters of nature in some- thing of their pristine ...

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...you really know, Durbeyfield, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles, who derive their descent ... ...n the morning, ought not to be at an inn at this late hour celebrating his ancient blood. ‘Abraham,’ she said to her little brother, ‘do you put on yo... ...the once independent inns. For a long time Tess did not join in the weekly pilgrimages. But under pres sure from matrons not much older than herself ... ...a Saturday in Septem ber, on which a fair and a market coincided; and the pilgrims from Trantridge sought double delights at the inns on that account... ...l be just the same.’ So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman’s shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern ... ...ther valley in which the dairy stood that was the aim and end of her day’s pilgrimage. 84 Phase the Third — The Rally Tess had never before visited t... ...he depositaries of the village traditions, had to seek refuge in the large centres; the process, humor ously designated by statisticians as ‘the tend...

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...sant as with the prisoner— he does not squander the powers of his soul, he centres them all upon a single idea, and this is how his feelings come to b... ...d transformed into 44 The Country Doctor an inn, which furnished mules to pilgrims to the Grand Chartreuse who began to come our way, and after two y... ... well-doing. We know nothing of the civic virtue that led the great men of ancient times to serve their country in the low- est rank whenever they did... ...olidity, which added to the old-world appearance of the buildings with the ancient trees that stood about them, and the growth of plant life on the ro... ...figures had been carved on the horn handles of the knives. These relics of ancient splendor, which, nevertheless, looked almost new, seemed to those w... ...r folk there in Paris, seeing all this, say among themselves: “ ‘Here is a pilgrim who appears to take his instructions from Heaven above; he is uncom...

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...owed. There was the “fun,” to begin with, of establishing one’s successive centres—of fixing them so exactly that the portions of the subject commande... ...other after the former has been postulated? From the moment we proceed by “centres”—and I have never, I confess, embraced the logic of any superior pr... ...orms here before us the opening of Book Fourth, where all the offered life centres, to inten- sity, in the disclosure of Milly’s single throbbing cons... ... only “real” aunt, not the wife of an uncle, and had been thereby, both in ancient days and when the greater trouble came, the person, of all persons,... ...ight as during the actual phase of her associated, if slightly undirected, pilgrim- age; and the consciousness gave perhaps to her plea for a pause mo... ...y wished to do anything so inane as “get into society.” To have made their pilgrimage all for the sake of such society as Mrs. Lowder might have in re... ...o elder women, to give and to take, and it was even not quite clear to the pilgrim from Boston that what she should mainly have arranged for in London... ...ssing finally by the Rialto. The rooms, in the event, were unoccupied; the ancient padrona was there with her smile all a radiance but her recognition... ...s there with her smile all a radiance but her recognition all a fable; the ancient rickety objects too, refined in their shabbiness, amiable in their ...

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...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ... name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil Dam; from her, hopped ove... ...e old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim worshipped flag stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled. But... ... move out of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch coat is not so much ... ...hal in the fancy such long, dreary, speechless processions of slow pacing pilgrims, down cast and hooded with new fallen snow? Or, to the unread, uns... ..., wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior ...

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...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... examined) the forts at Liége. She bought and prepared a hundred strategic centres in individualistic Bel- gium and France. So we pass from the fact t... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ...has its stereotyped accusations; its stereotyped repartees. The Canterbury Pilgrims had little to learn from Christabel Pankhurst. Man and woman in th... ...onial empire, vindictive, intriguing, and unscrupulous, a mere se- ries of centres of attack upon adjacent territory, to compli- cate the immense dise...

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... the last three thousand years have told us about left and right wings and centres being broken or driven in, but never a word about the soldier himse... ...ws no love but barrack love,— the love which those clever myth-makers, the ancients, placed under the patronage of Eros, son of Mars and Venus. Those ... ...sel of the artist carved them, as follows: Azure, on a pale, argent, three pilgrim’s staff’s sable; a fess bronchant, gules, charged with four grosses... ...but the arrival of two sons and three daughters kept him poor. His family, ancient and formerly powerful, now consisted of the Marquis de T roisville,... ...spoke a shameful want of care,—the seal set by mere life-possessors on the ancient glories that they pos- sess. Two windows on the first floor were st... ... depths of Normandy, on the borders of Brittany, as they were at the great centres of social life? What philosopher dares deny that a head falls to-da... ...ve all, those of avarice—take on so many and diverse shades in the diverse centres of social existence that there still remains upon the stage of our ...

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...e of those sculptured balustrades, carved by a hand of faith, on which the pilgrims lean, in the choir of some glorious church, to think upon the end ... ...gray, gave tones of polished steel to the ice of the fiord. Perchance some ancient eider-duck crossed the expanse, trusting to the warm down beneath w... ...therefore, this evening was to be what that other evening had been for the pilgrims to Emmaus, what a vision was to Dante, an inspiration to Homer,—to... ...es beget affinities which es- cape your knowledge, and which are linked to centres. The different species among which life is distributed are unfail- ... ...ther by contiguous similitudes; the life of the worlds is drawn toward the centres by famished aspi- ration, as you are drawn by hunger to seek food. ... ...me envoy of death and of oblivion whose dusky mantle covers like a pall an ancient Humanity 102 Seraphita of which the moderns retain no memory. Man ... ...said Monsieur Becker, “who at the age of twelve spoke forty-two languages, ancient and modern; also the history of that monk who could guess thought b... ... happy day arrives in which you set your feet upon the Path and begin your pilgrimage, the world will know nothing of it; earth no longer understands ...

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...tories with a point and to argue by parables; he read Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgrim’s Progress, a short history of the United States, and Weems’s Life ... ...eagerly to that one point: and the spectacle reminded one of those lays of ancient times telling of two armies, in battle array, standing still to see... ... in that community, but the Bible was in every house, and somehow or other Pilgrim’s Progress, AEsop’s Fables, a History of the United States, and a L... ...period of their history. In 1619, the year before the Mayflower landed our Pilgrim Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of ... ...rrying away of fugitive slaves by Federal troops from Boston agitated that ancient stronghold of freedom to its foundations. The pub- lication of Uncl... ...Lincoln’s heart than any other were the meetings held in the manufacturing centres, by the very operatives upon whom the war bore the hardest, express...

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...................................................... 269 EXPLANATION OF AN ANCIENT WOODCUT, REPRESENTING HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION.... 269 SONNETS.... ...................................................... 450 THE BEQUEST OF THE ANCIENT PERSIAN FAITH. ....................................................... ...ch as possible; and it so happens that the real interest of Goethe’s Poems centres in those classes of them which are not too diffuse to run any risk ... ...This Ballad is introduced in the Wanderjahre, in a tale called The Foolish Pilgrim.] WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, When scarce the Eastern sky i... ...lawless mirth like this Gives your hearts delight no more,— Then return in pilgrim guise, Gladly up the mountain go, While your strains repentant rise... ...ween the East and West To revolve, be my behest! 1833.* EXPLANATION OF AN ANCIENT WOODCUT, REP- RESENTING HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. [I feel consi...

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...nable reluctance to follow those gallant intellectual leads. If fear is an ancient instinctive boundary that the mod- ern life, the aristocratic life,... ...ther planet. What intruders men are, what for- eigners in the life of this ancient system! He looked over his shoulder, and there were the two little ... ...deserted temples that are found rent asunder by the roots of trees and the ancient embankments that hold water only for the drinking of the sambur dee... ...eating nor going forth before he came to decisions. Chris- tian before his pilgrimage began was not more certain of this need of flight from the life ... ... Nearly dinner-time… . No doubt Christian during the earlier stages of his pilgrim- age noticed the recurrence of the old familiar hours of his life o... ...ion her, or to let her go. 224 The Research Magnificent “The normal woman centres upon herself; her mission is her own charm and her own beauty and h... ...ng on bicycles and afoot under a low- ering twilight sky towards murmuring centres of disorder, of startling flares seen suddenly afar off, of the muf...

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...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ...d it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.” —Pilgrim’ s Progress. “That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works ... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ...he name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped ove... ...e old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Can- terbury Cathedral where Becket bled. ... ... move out of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much ... ..., wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior ...

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...te precipices topple down. The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line... ...versed by little brooks, whose quivering surfaces were braided along their centres, and folded into creases at the sides; or, where the flow was more r... ...e reached the churchyard, and passed round it under the wall where several ancient trees grew. There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabrie... ...gh we don’t know yer name.’ ‘Gabriel Oak, that’s my name, neighbours.’ The ancient maltster sitting in the midst turned up this — his turning being as... ...on, The Farrier’s Sure Guide, The Vet erinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash’s Dictionary, and Walkingame’s Ari... ...hes was one of the first magnitude. ‘’Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim’s Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All Fours in a whitlow.’ ‘Ay, an... ...is shoulders, and in his hand his crook, which he used as the staff of his pilgrimage. Several of the sheep would get worn and lame, and occasionally ...

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...ng arches—dark nooks—crumbling stair cases—old cathedral too—earthy smell—pilgrims’ feet wore away the old steps—little Saxon doors—confessionals lik... ...the most aw ful and tremendous discharge that ever shook the earth to its centres, or an elderly gentleman off his. It was in this trying situation, ... ...clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, ... ...arted from it when old, ornamented the walls, in the form of sam plers of ancient date, worsted landscapes of equal antiquity, and crimson silk tea k... ...arn from thence what they ought to have known before, that Muggleton is an ancient and loyal borough, mingling a zealous advocacy of Christian princip... ...rp practice of Dodson & Fogg to boot. CHAPTER XXVII SAMUEL WELLER MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO DORKING, AND BEHOLDS HIS MOTHER IN LAW THERE STILL REMAININ...

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...ame with his bride. And he had come to fill it with flowers. The house was ancient and very uncomfortable. But he did not want to alter it. Ah, marvel... ...t worth it. He wanted to ignore it, to go his own way apart, like a casual pilgrim down the forsaken sidetracks. He loved his wife, his cottage and ga... ...great authority as girls; or could arrive at manhood and become themselves centres of the same power, continu- ing the same male mystery as men; until...

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... “I saw a boat, O Haji Wasub! Ya! Haji Wasub!” The serang had been twice a pilgrim, and was not insensible to the sound of his rightful title. There w... ...rue as that of the sea horizon itself. Notwithstanding its nearness to the centres of Eu- ropean power, this coast has been known for ages to the arme... ...ang, jerkily. “These also are faithful to the strong. By Allah! I who am a pilgrim and have listened to words of wisdom in many places, I tell you, Tu... ...asub—the son of a free man, a fol- lower of Rajahs, a fugitive, a slave, a pilgrim—diver for pearls, serang of white men’s ships, I have had too many ... ... of biting insects made a cloud about his head. He had lost his costly and ancient head-kerchief, and when in a slightly wider space he stopped in a l... ...ful meditation. Such attitudes are met with sometimes on the sculptures of ancient tombs. D’Alcacer began to speak: “She is a representative woman and...

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...t. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the former on your and Jem’s notice,... ...ative mind a false im- pression, it may be for ever. ‘Remember, we have no ancient customs nor time-hallowed usages to make up for personal indifferen... ... Preserver of all. ‘Viewed indeed from that position which was occupied by ancient philosophers, the existing contrarieties between na- tions might we... ...ing, nevertheless, to find out, and it has taken years. Then using them as centres, I must also find out how far already the dialect of that spot may ... ... learn to know and love more and more our dear fellow-labourers and fellow-pilgrims still among us in the flesh. ‘Such a day as this brings, thanks be... ... 627 Yo n g e quiet meditation over the present, reminding one of Bunyan’s Pilgrims in the Land of Beulah, continues at intervals through the sheets w... ...of July , ninety-seven children were baptized, at four villages, chosen as centres to which the adja- cent ones could bring their children. It was aga...

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...stry from which my Nostromo is free; for Nostromo’s lineage had to be more ancient still. He is a man with the weight of countless generations behind ... ...of Sulaco. He looked more English than a casual tourist, a sort of heretic pilgrim, however, quite unknown in Sulaco. He looked more English than the ... ...lanked by the perpendicular folds of the dark hangings. The stateliness of ancient days lin- gered between the four high, smooth walls, tinted a delic... ...s and a white band over the forehead, in a corner of the first floor of an ancient and ruinous palace, whose big, empty halls downstairs sheltered und... ... of ancient Spanish and modern European furniture making as if differ- ent centres under the high white spread of the ceil- ing, the silver and porcel...

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...l place, Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations, Shalt see the ancient spirits disconsolate, Who cry out each one for the second death; ... ...s, Hastened away, and came unto the place Where I was sitting with the ancient Rachel. “Beatrice” said she, “the true praise of God, Why succour... ...ine eyes he loosed, and said: “Direct the nerve Of vision now along that ancient foam, There yonder where that smoke is most intense.” Even as the... ...heart, The day they’ve said to their sweet friends farewell, And the new pilgrim penetrates with love, If he doth hear from far away a bell That... ...en Of one true city; but thy meaning is, Who may have lived in Italy a pilgrim.” By way of answer this I seemed to hear A little farther on than... ...Perhaps the knot unloosing of their debt.” In the same way that thoughtful pilgrims do, Who, unknown people on the road o’ertaking, T urn themselv... ...y, and I ask not What thou dost wish to hear, for I have seen it Where centres every When and every ‘Ubi.’ Not to acquire some good unto himself, ...

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...Italo- mania of Boston Bay. Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigora... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...d by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe. My friends have come to me unsought. The ... ...o hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart. CIRCLES Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, ... ...of the Southern Ocean his wharves, and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in his brain only; and nobody in the universe can make his place go... ...rtune and impatiently casting them on other shoul- ders. And these are the centres of society, on which it returns for fresh impulses. These are the c...

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..., it was received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, ... ..., and with- draw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much. For so, under the strangest ... ... thou art departed, and the wages thou hadst are all consumed; nay, as the ancient wise have written,—through Eternity itself, and is verily marked in... ...u have known it): first vision as of a flame-girt Sinai, in this our waste Pilgrimage,—which thenceforth wants not its pillar of cloud by day, and pil... ...d loquacity, come! They come; with hot unutterabilities in their heart; as Pilgrims towards a mi- raculous shrine. Nay how many come as vacant Strolle... ...f still waters, painted on the parched Earth; whereby at least their dusty pilgrimage, if devious, becomes cheerfuller, becomes possible. In the death... ...ecome National too! A mad vitality of Jacobinism, with Forty-four Thousand centres of activity, circulates through all fibres of France. Very notable ...

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...nd so deceived, they live. IV Y e noble Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wav... ...ave wrought, Where godliness might reign perpetual, And none be left, that pilgrims might denay To see Christ’s tomb, and promised vows to pay. XXIV “... ...went on with lucky speed, And reared rams their horned fronts advance, The Ancient Foe to man, and mortal seed, His wannish eyes upon them bent askanc... ...and age, The sun was sunken underneath the land, When she began her wanton pilgrimage, In silken weeds she trusteth to withstand, And conquer knights ... ...ng and danced to move his weaker sense, Rinaldo round about environing, As centres are with their circumference; The tree they compassed eke, and gan ... ...X “I think,” quoth he, “on this distressed town, The aged Queen of Judah’s ancient land, Now lost, now sacked, spoiled and trodden down, Whose fall in...

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...nd so deceived, they live. IV Y e noble Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wav... ...ave wrought, Where godliness might reign perpetual, And none be left, that pilgrims might denay To see Christ’s tomb, and promised vows to pay. XXIV “... ...went on with lucky speed, And reared rams their horned fronts advance, The Ancient Foe to man, and mortal seed, His wannish eyes upon them bent askanc... ...and age, The sun was sunken underneath the land, When she began her wanton pilgrimage, In silken weeds she trusteth to withstand, And conquer knights ... ...ng and danced to move his weaker sense, Rinaldo round about environing, As centres are with their circumference; The tree they compassed eke, and gan ... ...X “I think,” quoth he, “on this distressed town, The aged Queen of Judah’s ancient land, Now lost, now sacked, spoiled and trodden down, Whose fall in...

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...already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light...

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...hape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passionate, ideal nature demanded ... ...; I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as i... ...extremely narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, D... ... a pink and white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the “Pilgrim’s Progress.” The Fad of drawing plans! What was life worth—what gre... ... celebrations, and even to serve as an educating influence according to the ancient conception, I say nothing, for with these we are not immediately co... ...the most, Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak? As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? 2d Gent. Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of bo... ...mph, half child, in those delicate petals which glow and breathe about the centres of deep color? He touched her ear and a little bit of neck under it...

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...already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light...

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...shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passionate, ideal nature demanded... ...; I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as i... ...extremely narrow accommodation which was to be had in the dwellings of the ancient Egyptians, as if to check a too high standard. After he was gone, D... ...a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the “Pilgrim’s Progress.” The fad of drawing plans! What was life worth—what gre... ... ebrations, and even to serve as an educating influence accord- ing to the ancient conception, I say nothing, for with these we are not immediately co... ...r, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak? As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? 2d Gent. Nay, tell me how you class your wealth ... ...mph, half child, in those delicate petals which glow and breathe about the centres of deep color? He touched her ear and a little bit of neck under it...

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...- ley—The psychology of character-changes—Emo- tional excitements make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starbuck ... ...f the subject, sadness and gladness have each been emphasized in turn. The ancient saying that the first maker of the Gods was fear receives volu- min... ...s freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient pagan feeling. And this quality Whitman’s outpourings have not got.... ..., it is true, to persons for whom the conception of salvation has lost its ancient theological meaning, but who labor nevertheless with the same etern... ... believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease of any kind, if it can ... ...p—so we drop down, give up, and don’t care any longer. Our emotional brain-centres strike work, and we lapse into a temporary apathy. Now 210 The V a... ...d, “seems to carry this voice with it—’Go thou and preach the Gospel; be a pilgrim on earth; have no party or cer- tain dwelling place.’ My heart echo...

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...oad could atone for slavery, even as no bills in Parliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Wal... ...fallen, to inspire others with the same courage. The interest of the novel centres about revolution- ary France: just as the plot is an abstract judic... ...cy, commuting the penalty to a year in a dungeon on bread and water, and a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia. Alas! the document was in... ...obert Louis Stevenson and long evenings, both pleasant and profitable. The Pilgrim ’s Progress and Don Quixote were begun in prison. It was after they... ...ating towards the event. Religion was not forgotten in the Court of Blois. Pilgrimages were agreeable and pic- turesque excursions. In those days a we...

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... act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life. CHAPTER 3 Home IT WA S A SUNDAY evening in London, gloo... ...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ...turbances only known to them by hearsay, as they would be described by the pilgrims tarrying with them on their way to the Insolvent Shrine; with the ... ...cle. Always think of me as quite an old man. I know that all your devotion centres in this room, and that nothing to the last will ever tempt you away...

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... act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life. CHAPTER 3 Home IT WA S A SUNDAY evening in London, gloo... ...mals, no rare plants or flowers, no natu- ral or artificial wonders of the ancient world—all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly Sou... ...d St Paul’s.’ He emptied and put down the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box. It was an iron box some two feet ... ...e. How the trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were to... ...turbances only known to them by hearsay, as they would be described by the pilgrims tarrying with them on their way to the Insolvent Shrine; with the ... ...cle. Always think of me as quite an old man. I know that all your devotion centres in this room, and that nothing to the last will ever tempt you away... ...x or parcel. With no other attendant than Mother, Mr Meagles went upon his pilgrimage, and encountered a number of adventures. Not the least of his di...