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...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...s of years. 5 Let the reader, who is disposed to regard as exaggerated or romantic the pure fiendishness imputed to Williams, recol- lect that, excep... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ...d, upon principles of fidelity under political suffer- ing, with the Roman Catholics, to say little in his own de- fence. That defence, and any revers... ... at the age of twenty-four. Except that he favored the claims of the Irish Catholics, his policy was pretty uniformly that of Mr. Pitt. He supported t... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...of stones roughly piled. He thought this prospect, from a city house, almost romantic; and he turned from it back to the interior (illuminated now by ... ... the relaxation of many European despotisms, for in former years much of the romance of her life had been in smoothing the pillow of exile for banishe... ...herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in h... .... She wished to work in another field; she had long been preoccupied with the romance of the people. She had an immense desire to know intimately some ... ...and helpless miseries grow greater all the while? I am only a girl, a simple American girl, and of course I haven’t seen much, and there is a great de... ... an idea that in leaving them simply planted face to face (the terror of the American heart) she had so high a warrant; and presently Basil Ransom fel... ...y, without Verena’s tender notes, her crusade would lack sweetness, what the Catholics call unction; and, on the other hand, how weak Verena would be ...

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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... ...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 ... ... the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you,” he said to Helen, “he’s capable of being move... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...arth might become such, did mankind them- selves consent. The charm of the Roman climate helped to clothe his thoughts in greater beauty than they had... ...erest; and that the feel- ings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the hor- ribl... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ... ... _130 412 V olume One To see what was romantic there. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. And all this, though quite ideal,— Read... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous... ...r the worshipped father of our common country, With contributions from the catholics, Will make Rebellion pale in our excess. Be these the expedients ...

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...ryman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle. He would become an American or Australian Phase the Third — The Rally 103 Abraham, commanding... ...a last jaunt in her company while they were yet mere lover and mistress; a romantic day, in circumstances that would never be repeated; with that othe... ...It is the only safeguard for us poor human beings. “Integer vitae,” says a Roman poet, who is strange company for St. Paul — The man of upright life, ... ...ir own vaults to this day, but done out of his property in the time o’ the Romans. However, Sir John, as we call’n now, kept up the wedding day as wel... ...rry because I’ve decided to go to Brazil.’ ‘Brazil! Why they are all Roman Catholics there surely!’ ‘Are they? I hadn’t thought of that.’ But even the... ...om the back of a mule which was bearing him from the interior of the South American Continent towards the coast. His experiences of this strange land ...

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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... ... general, are better instructed in the prin- ciples of their religion than Catholics; the reason is obvious; 67 Rousseau the doctrine of the former r... ...e two leagues distant from Lausanne, and generally in com- pany with other Catholics, particularly a Parisian embroi- derer, whose name I have forgott... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...s determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were b... ...hese things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagination, these dissensions made the on... ...ught up against the railroad, that stubborn iron barrier against which his romance shattered itself to froth and disintegrated, flying spume. His hear... ... Well, with you it is different,” he answered. “But there are a great many Catholics in the county—some on your ranch. And so few come to the Mission.... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers...

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...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the ma...

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... Mannering by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. THE NOVEL OR ROMANCE of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first,... ... over the general mind sufficient even to con- stitute the mainspring of a romance. Besides, it occurred, that to do justice to such a subject would h... ... worthy Dominie, upon which is founded the part which he per- forms in the romance, and which, for certain particular rea- sons, must be expressed ver... ...omas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those that Catholics have, and a flag that’s up yonder in the garret—if they had been ... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

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...leration in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinar... ...on in matters of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinary life... ...ty. I don’t want him to sell his country to Germany, or to turn it into an American republic in order that he may be president. But when he gets the r... ...liser was the last man from whom the Duke of St Bungay would have expected romance at any time, and, least of all, at such a time as this. ‘Aid from h... ... certainly.’ ‘ And yet,’ said Phineas, ‘the bulk of the people are staunch Catholics. Of course the same attempt to maintain a tempo- ral influence, w... ...e who believe all England to be Romish at heart, because here in England a Roman Catholic can say what he will, and print what he will.’ ‘And yet,’ sa... ...r,—the result of which was, that he had gone rather deep into two or three American mines before the end of July. But he had already made some money o... ...rds, has not yet given it a name. I am a good deal at present in the South American trade.’ She listened, but received no glimmering of an idea from h...

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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...he had heard in the servants’ hall? Again, had my title borne ‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profl... ...te knowledge of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scor... ...readers under- stand, that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry, nor a tale of modern manners; that my hero will neithe... ...ion, perhaps,’ said Fergus, ‘may make obstacles, though we are not bigoted Catholics.’ ‘My grandmother was of the Church of Rome, and her religion was... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss...

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...up without any clear traces about it or near it, like the brazen castle of romance round which the sea-tide flows. My father must have borne me miles ... ...I remem- bered of my mother. The ladies observed that it was clear I was a romantic child. I noticed that the old gentleman said ‘Humph,’ very often, ... ...he spoke of his exposure to the risk of marrying again; it added a curious romantic tenderness to my adoration of him, and made me feel that he and I ... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ...f faith, and it was found refractory. Hence our many divisions. ‘The Roman Catholics admit reason?’ said Janet, who had too strong a turn for showing ...

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...rawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia?s son...

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...eenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessari... ...nger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth’ wil... ... decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at the angles, and cabinets with gems and antiques ... ...magined that the Huguenots were on the point of rising and slaying all the Catholics, and, with the savagery of alarmed cowardice, the citizens and th... ...bound to the French Reformers who would gladly have come to terms with the Catholics at the Conference of Plassy, and regretted the more decided Calvi... ...tics. De Mericour consulted spiritual advisers, who told him that none but Catholics could be truly holy, and that what he admired were merely heathen... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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...gh-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poe... ...n, sir? Is not the foundation of our municipal law the ancient code of the Roman Empire, devised at a time when it was so much re- nowned for its civi... ...thee, and thou hadst not, as now, conceived thyself to be the hero of some romantic history, and converted, in thy vain imagi- nations, honest Griffit... ...edgauntlet, much stronger amongst the country gentlemen, many of whom were Catholics as well as Jacobites, and most others unwilling to quarrel with k... ...sed in a low tone the suspicions of old maids and the churlish scruples of Catholics, that made so many obstacles to helping a fellow creature, and wi... ... dead flesh, or spirits, all is one to me; and 325 Sir W alter Scott your Catholics have such d—d large hoods, with pardon, ma’am, that they can some... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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... moved by the new picture of a girl, as if it had been a frontispiece of a romantic story some day to be read. She looked compelled to look, but conse... ... as the men have it; and when their wor- shipped figure of manliness, in a romantic sombrero, is a threadbare giant, showing bruises, they sink on the... ...ike a pestilence! This young Weyburn would touch the fancy of a woman of a romantic turn. Supposing her enthusiastic in her wor- ship of the hero, aft... ...plained; “I said, America. Y ou would be among Prot- estants in America.” “Catholics and Protestants are both welcome to us, accord- ing to our scheme... ...he work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manage to keep my head... ...is boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all em...

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...nsen- sibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances. Ah! once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance! ... ...ed Nucingen, a banker of German extraction, who became a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. Goriot remained a vermicelli maker as be- fore. His daughters... ... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ... ...erks in the employ of the Government, as the Pope is infal- lible for good Catholics. Something of this peculiar radiance invests everything he does o... ... entrancing than the noblest deeds done for love’s sake in the most famous romances. This plain-song of love, to use the pretty expression of our fore...

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...des Logis in the royal house- hold: he arrived at that office by a perfect romance. He was one of the best made men in France, and was much in favour ... ...ed no anger. He wrote in return to me, and said, I was not ignorant that a Roman Emperor had said, “I love treason but not traitors;” but that, as for... ...pon coming down again, she said it could only be that of Orondat. Now that romances are happily no longer read, it is necessary to say that Orondat is... ... would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his s... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...dals of his life. He heard nothing but eulo- gies, while the good and true Catholics and the true bishops, groaned in spirit to see the orthodox act t... ...ts and Jacobites of that country. For very different reasons, not only the Catholics and Protes- tants, enemies of the government, were ravished at it...

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...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ...he ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented th... ...elief in God; how then? Is this belief special to Prot- estants? Are Roman Catholics, are those of the Greek, the Armenian, and other Christian church... ...the Ponteficii, as the more learned of our fathers always called the Roman Catholics, Mariolatry; they pay undue honors, say we, to the Virgin. They i... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten...

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........... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN...

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............................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41—418 ............................................... ... He could not bear that there should be any place that his own people, the Romans, did not know and subdue. So he commanded the ships to be prepared, ... ...hese. He only made the natives give him some of their pearls, and call the Romans their masters, and then he went back to his ships, and none of the s... ...ver the Church, held with him and Mary of Scotland. They were called Roman Catholics, while Elizabeth and her friends were the real Catholics, for the... ...ficult to judge was, that the kings of France and Spain, and all the Roman Catholics at home, thought Mary ought to be queen instead of Elizabeth, and... ...t up in different castles. There she managed to interest the English Roman Catholics in her, and get them to lay plots, which always were found 84 Yo... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu...

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...reacher and patriot. In addition to his moral stature, he was a man of great physical bearing as well, standing six feet four inches tall. During the American Civil War he upheld the cause of the North and opposed slavery, and his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. He was asked to be the full-time chaplain at Har...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two consider...

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...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions; and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze about the Lost Tribes wh... ...g the city, but without disturbance, old La Marmora being a commander of a Roman sternness. With the return of quiet, and the reopening of the univer-... ...re notable, as the girl really derived from the Enfields; whose high-flown romantic temper, I wish I could find space to illustrate. She was but seven... ...ard Dr. – expound in a remarkable way a prophecy of St. Paul’s about Roman Catholics, which mutatis mutandis would do very well for Protestants in som... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort...