...e chosen Moses in Egypt for special study, doubtless because the spirit of sacred music finds therein its supreme expression. Perhaps the soul of the ... ... expression, but the agreement of things among themselves—unity, in short? Architecture, music, and poetry, everything in France, and in France more t... ...d, they grew less amenable to disci- pline; and as in the last days of the Byzantine Empire, every- one wished to be emperor. They mistook their unifo... ...man so cavalierly treated in his thoughts of yester- day had become a most sacred and dreadful power. She was to be his world, his life, from this tim...

...which should have lasted forever; tainted thus with fear was that farewell sacred to love and grief, to perfect love and to grief that could not be he... ...ese, though condemned on some grounds by the restorers of authentic church architecture, have, nev- 40 Thomas de Quincey ertheless, this one advantag... ...unning helter skelter into heresy—and all in consequence of your majesty’s sacred laziness.” Our governments were less remissly administered; since ea... ...thought, there can be none under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural... ...uspicion, simply because it lay through a succession of temples and sewers sacred to the goddesses Cloacina and Scavengerina. That of itself was not s... ...aerial succession: so, and by similar steps, she achieves a char- acter of architecture justifying, as it were, the very promise of her name; and with... ...nal cultivators of the Roman language—and which, at another period, in the Byzantine court, operated to preserve the purity of the mother idiom within...

... 37 might consider being a psychologist or a teacher. If you have a sense of beauty and of geometry you might consider archit... ...h Africa, establishing a number of military posts. By 698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzant... ... ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Archit... ... that is supposed to be a masculine imperative. We stress that when secrets are shared they must be held in strictest confidence. It breaks a sacred... ...dels did you kill?‘‖ 103 —―But the Koran also says that life is sacred...