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...pare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall...

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..., as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Mid... ...a dying person, determined the celebrated tragic author Werner to become a Catholic. Almost the same effect was produced upon the dreamer when he look... ...ity of life, he dreamed awake, he saw with his eyes the fantastic world of romances he had read in his idle hours. Any Parisian leaving, as he did, th... ...t the matter. “How old is she?” he began to ask himself; and a vision of a romance in the rue Chanoinesse came to him. “She certainly has an air of no... ... in its entirety. He grew impatient to enter the inner lives of these pure Catholics. In that small company of faithful souls, the majesty of practica... ... “Imitation of Jesus Christ,” which is to dogma what action is to thought. Catholicism vibrates in it, pulses, breathes, and lives, body to body, with... ...h can be expected to show an absolute devotion in this matter. If it sends missionaries to heathen or savage nations, with how much greater joy 64 Th...

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...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...gious purposes have furnished any working motive, unless where, as express missionaries, they have prepared their readers to expect such a bias to the... ...n secretly foremost in the recent outbreak of fanaticism against the Roman Catholics; but unfortunately it happened that, although not hating the Low ... ...ric sketches of society, even where the direct object may happen to have a catholic intelligibility, there is much amongst the allusions that surround... ...at name, has been chiefly culti- 159 Thomas de Quincey vated by the Roman Catholic Church, we Protestants, with our ridiculous prudery, find a stumbl...

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...e out of the ship’ s crew whom I took up at sea. It is true this man was a Roman, and perhaps it may give offence to some hereafter if I leave anythin... ...ring all the souls I can to the knowledge of the truth, and to embrace the Catholic doc- trine; but as I am here under your permission, and in your 9... ...e we were such people as they call heretics, but that he was not the first Catholic I had con- versed with without falling into inconveniences, or car... ... sir, the essence of the sacrament of matrimony” (so he called it, being a Roman) “consists not only in the mutual consent of the parties to take one ... ...d on all possible occasions. It is on this principle that our Church sends missionaries into Per- sia, India, and China; and that our clergy , even of... ...mfort you, while these people are, in your account, out of the pale of the Catholic Church, without which you believe there is no salvation? so that y... ...he answered, with abundance of candour, thus: “Sir, I am a Catholic of the Roman Church, and a priest of the order of St. Benedict, and I embrace all ... ...nd pious intentions; and I am firmly of opinion, if the rest of the Popish missionaries were like him, they would strive to visit even the poor T arta... ...and the like; yet it must be confessed that the religionists, whom we call missionaries, have a firm belief that these people will be saved, and that ...

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...f duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episode... ...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ...alists? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quake... ...? And why were the Congregationalists not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, an... ...; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And wh... ...i can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you... ...m. Both of these men have been Presbyterians, Uni versalists, Methodists, Catholics—then Presbyterians again, What Is Man and Other Essays 74 then M... ...lf. Charlemagne was that kind of a walking delegate. Yes, there were great missionaries in those days, for the methods were sure and the rewards great... ...ose days, for the methods were sure and the rewards great. We have no such missionaries now, and no such methods. But to continue the history of the f...

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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... ...lages, by German bars and stores and the German con- sulate; and reach the Catholic mission and cathedral stand- ing by the mouth of a small river. Th... ...any varieties of whites, – sailors, merchants, clerks, priests, Protestant missionaries in their pith helmets, and the nondescript hangers-on of any i... ...ed his colours, abjured the errors of reform, and, with the support of the Catholics, rose to the chief power. In a very brief interval he had thus ru... ... the Vaisingano. As he passed, he de- tached a messenger to Mataafa at the Catholic mission. Mataafa followed by the same road, and the pair met at th... ...menace us with their results. The missions may perhaps have been to blame. Missionaries are perhaps apt to meddle overmuch outside their discipline; i...

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...el is, for a boy of twelve, to change heavens; to cross the Atlantic, for a man of twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped ou... ... person who has a tincture of one or two may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others. And again, not only is Polynesian easy to smatter, bu... ...ins pre-eminent authority; the king be- comes his Mairedupalais; he can proscribe, he can com- mand; and the temptation is ever towards too much. Thus... ...y decent women of Samoa prostituted themselves in public to the French; and bear in mind how it was the custom of the adventurers, and we may almost s... ...seven hundred or a thousand feet above the beach, a Virgin looks insignificantly down, like a poor lost doll, forgotten there by a giant child. This l... ...e strong and benign influence of the late bishop, extended his influence in the group, was for a while joint ruler with the prelate, and died at last ... ...r pleasure elsewhere than in my pages. Whether Catholic or Protestant, with all their gross blots, with all their deficiency of candour, of humour, an... ...the foot of the ravine. Two roads divided it, and met in the midst. Save for this intersection the amphitheatre was strangely perfect, and had a certa... .... Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi. And for either shore of it at closer quarters, con- ceiv...

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...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...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. 150, he t... ...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. 150, he t... ... State Papers,” vol. i. p. 630. ****By the penal law of Massachusetts, any Catholic priest who should set foot in the colony after having been once dr... ...en who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the ... ...ch has never been dissolved. About fifty years ago Ireland began to pour a Catholic population into the United States; on the other hand, the Catholic... ... one motive of their devotion to the cause; and if you converse with these missionaries of Chris- tian civilization, you will be surprised to find how... ...uca- tion, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; and in this manner they found hospitals, pri...

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...s ministry, not to his own praise but to the praise of God. Writing to the Romans, he declares, “Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magni... ... predominate. They go where the Christians are. Why do they not invade the Catholic provinces and preach their doc- trine to godless princes, bishops,... ... not their destruction but their salvation. Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like... ...or else they could not be saved. When we consider the obstinacy with which Romanists cling to their traditions, we can very well understand the zealou... ... thy destruction,” Hosea 13:14. “And for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,” Romans 8:3. Here Paul plays the Law against the Law , as if to say: “The La...

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...their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner. Within a few years past, missionaries from the Society group have settled among the Leeward Islands,... ...yages. The journals of its first visitors, con- taining, as they did, such romantic descriptions of a country and people before unheard of, produced a... ... to the pagans of Tahiti that the first regu- larly constituted Protestant missionaries were sent; and from their shores also, have sailed successive ... ...what reason I do not know. Origi- nally planned for the convenience of the missionaries jour- neying from one station to another, it almost completely... ...h it from similar places in and about Papeetee. 100 Omoo Though extremely romantic in appearance, on a near ap- proach it proved hut ill adapted to d... ...back the French had been mak- ing repeated ineffectual attempts to plant a Roman Catholic mission here. But, invariably treated with contumely, they s... ...he French had been mak- ing repeated ineffectual attempts to plant a Roman Catholic mission here. But, invariably treated with contumely, they sometim... ...ryman, was very serviceable to the rest of us; especially as we all turned Catholics, and went to mass every morning, much to Captain Bob’s consternat...

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...ot only more celebrated but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with... ...elf. Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances which had been my mother’s. My father’s design was only to improve... ... retard the future efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never b... ... young proselyte; for that instant I was hers!—a religion preached by such missionaries must lead to paradise! My letter was presented with a tremblin... ...n to lament. The king, who was fond of appearing a zealous promoter of the Catholic faith, took her under his protection, and complimented her with a ... ...former faith, but no inclination to return to it. She not only died a good Catholic, but truly lived one; nay, I dare affirm (and I think I have had t... ...ly scrutinized, and that such advice would be thought high treason against Catholicism, but she spoke so feelingly of the affliction I must give her(m...

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... the round-hand of a boy of seven years old, and finished off with the big Roman capitals Finis, Amen, and ending with the uncompleted sheets, bearing... ...general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I d... ...ition of Rome at that time, and arrived at conclusions strongly adverse to Roman Catholicism as such, though he retained uninjured the Catholic tone o... ...of Rome at that time, and arrived at conclusions strongly adverse to Roman Catholicism as such, though he retained uninjured the Catholic tone of his ... ...that a sectarian char- acter, as of fixing him with party names. His was a catholic mind. What distinguished him was his open-mindedness, his essentia... ...ning him. After that fam- ily prayers were never read without a clause for Missionaries, ‘especially the absent member of this family.’ He went up to ... ...Wesleyan chapel. On the rising ground on the east of the cove is the Roman Catholic chapel, and on 108 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the west side ... ...Columbanus and Boniface, and his pupil Gregory, and others (all the German Missionaries, almost) just went on the plan the Bishop wants to work out he... ... kind of Protestant Propaganda College for the education of teach- ers and missionaries from among the islanders, but this is all uncertain. ‘Now good...

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...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ...o had, he said, many difficulties to contend with, he con- tinued with the Romans, passed to England and the right method, which speedily became the w... ... out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at ma... ...rt a society for broad- ening the minds of the young—much more useful than missionaries, Hester! Oh, I’d forgotten there’s a dreadful little thing cal... ...iting and asking to be caught. I’m not exactly a Protestant, and I’m not a Catholic, but I could almost pray for the days of popery to come again—beca... ...ar tone of voice, “I’m sure Miss Vinrace, now, has secret leanings towards Catholicism,” she had no idea what to answer, and Helen could not help laug... ...conceive why, if people must have a religion, they didn’t all become Roman Catholics. They had made several expeditions though none of any length. It ...

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ... age. Magnificabo apostolatum meum is a language almost as becoming to the missionaries and ministers of knowledge, as to the ambassa- dors of religio... ...ced already to the south in the third and fourth centuries by the torch of missionaries,—though already at that time illuminated by the immortal Gothi... ... rolls of chivalry,—were not excluded, though it was pretty evident that a Catholic zeal had pre- sided in forming the collection. For, together with ... ...lory of his short career was proclaimed in the ungen- erous exultations of Catholic Rome from Vienna to Madrid, and the individual heroism in the lame... ...und to the interests of the emperor. Both the city and the university were Catholic. Princes of the imperial family, and Papal commissioners, who had ...

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...ous point of view alone, how could you ever think of uniting yourself to a Catholic, unless she was amazingly rich? You ought to be so very Protestant... ... sheet of paper, if she would reflect upon the voluntary sacrifices of the missionaries in foreign parts who lived chiefly on salads. The proceedings ... ...sibly stand by, and suffer her to throw herself away (although she IS of a Catholic family), upon a young fellow who, as yet, has no heart at all? It ... ...ioning Parliament not to pass an act for abolishing the penal laws against Roman Catholic priests, the penalty of perpetual imprisonment denounced aga... ... Parliament not to pass an act for abolishing the penal laws against Roman Catholic priests, the penalty of perpetual imprisonment denounced against t... ...are the most Protestant fellows in the world, give our worst wishes to the Roman Catholic cause; and to Saville, who introduces their bill, I have a p... ...gh bred bulldog. If it hadn’t been for me to day, he’d have had that ‘ere Roman down, and made a riot of it, in another minute.’ ‘And why not?’ cried...

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... This old stone tower was very massive — and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashio... ...cept pedigree and lordship. There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted ... ...edigree and lordship. There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. In two or three little centuries it had converted a nati... ...f industries under way — nuclei of future vast factories, the iron and steel missionaries of my future civilization. In these were gathered together t... ... could not have stood it; and, moreover, I should have had the Estab lished Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute. No, I had been going cautio... ... not have stood it; and, moreover, I should have had the Estab lished Roman Catholic Church on my back in a minute. No, I had been going cautiously a... ... begin to look ridiculous because he was out of the fashion. Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and with out creating suspicion or excitin... ...s and dishonored consciences to shore up an Established Anachronism with. My missionaries were taught to spell out the gilt signs on their tabards — t... ...it of this belonged entirely to the Church. Although I was no friend to that Catholic Church, I was obliged to admit this. And often, in spite of me, ...

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...ut of a warm bed to run them. I began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as I had imagined it was; there was something very real and work... ...like,” and so I began to take heart once more to believe that piloting was a romantic sort of occupation after all. The moment we were under way I beg... ...through this blind place at night without the friendly old landmark. No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any fe... ...ll paved yet; but the reproach of ill lighting cannot be repeated, now. The ‘Catholic New Church’ was the only notable building then, and Mr. Murray w... ...he telegraph mutilated them. It can not be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestant... ...ram, only 26,362 attended church and Sunday school, while out of the 150,000 Catholics, 116,188 went to church and Sunday school. Chapter 52 A Burning... ...ir. My friend came back from the woods, and he and other clergy men and lay missionaries began once more to inundate au diences with their tears and...

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...res to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element... ...ill reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as on... ... of character, not unworthy a Scandina- vian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural for... ...Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied. “I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Cap- tain Peleg there, and Queequeg... ...r the missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive missionaries to their first destinations. If that double-bolted land, Japan...

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...I sent the diva, with excuses and compliments, a nuptial present-necklace, Roman goldwork, locket-pendant, containing sunny curl, and below a fine pea... ... has the oldest in the kingdom. But he will have the best of everything. A Romanee! A Musigny! Sip, my friend, you embrace the Goddess of your choice ... ...we’ll hope, you will be sitting with us over a mag- num of Victor Radnor’s Romance Conti aged thirty-one: a wine, you’ll say at the second glass, High... ...tonished them with a Provencal or Cevennes air, Hugue- not, though she was Catholic; but it suited her mezzo-so- prano tones; and it rang massively of... ...he Fate of Princes! The Paths of Glory! St. Louis was a very distant Roman Catholic mon- arch; and the young gentleman of Evangelical education could ... ... of Mr. Semhians. Proceeding at once to the com- ments of these high-class missionaries on the really curious inquisitiveness of certain of the foreig... ...or the servants, with the remark: ‘It would give us a nightmare of a Roman Catholic Cathedral!’ A bit of the window was lifted by Dorothea, cautiously...

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...cond hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nu... ...s of his own. As he reached the years of indiscretion, he learned to avoid missionaries and white men of serious aspect who asked who he was, and what... ...dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights, but missionaries and secretaries of charitable societ ies could not see the be... ...nd his neck. I thought perhaps you might help me.’ Between himself and the Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Irish contingent lay, as Bennett believed, a... ... neck. I thought perhaps you might help me.’ Between himself and the Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Irish contingent lay, as Bennett believed, an unbr... ...se I can’t touch the subscription money if I intend, as I do, to make ye a Catholic. If he doesn’t, ye’ll go to the Military Orphan age at the Regime... ...ancy I ought to sometimes. But I’m hop ing he’ll be brought up as a good Catholic. All that troubles me is what’ll happen if the old beggar man ’ ... ... almost on her shadow rolled in the Babu, robed as to the shoulders like a Roman emperor, jowled like Titus, bare headed, with new patent leather sho...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...man Melville A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsy... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Typee: A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville PREFACE More than three years ... ...passages reflecting with con- siderable severity on the methods pursued by missionaries in the South Seas. The manuscript was printed in a complete fo... ...at both these books have ever since been of the greatest value to outgoing missionaries on account of the exact information contained in them with res... ...l continues to be tenanted by beings as strange and barbarous as ever. The missionaries sent on a heavenly errand, had sailed by their lovely shores, ... ...at the Marquesas Islands have been converted to Christianity! and this the Catholic world will doubtless consider as a glorious event. Heaven help the...