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Page 456 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire , Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea.
Page 183 - That burst into existence from the froth Of ever-varying ocean : what is best Then becomes worst ; what loveliest, most deformed. The heart is hardest in the softest climes, The passions flourish, the affections die.
Page 188 - For some considerable (it cannot but be an '•"""•'• undefinable) part of the three first centuries, the Church of Rome, and most, if not all the churches of the West, were, if we may so speak, Greek religious colonies.
Page 94 - The walls covered with the decrees of the legislature, engraved on bronze, or sculptured on marble ; the triumphal arches, crowned by the statues of the princes who governed the province from the distant Quirinal ; the tesselated floor, pictured with the mythology of the State, whose sovereign was its pontiff — all contributed to act upon the feelings of the people, and to impress them with respect and submission. The conquered shared in the fame, and were exalted by the splendour of the victors."...
Page 438 - Ibid. examination and deliberation of the nobles .... and, in virtue of the orders of the king, the articles of the law named capitula, which the king himself had drawn up by the inspiration of God, or the necessity of which had been made manifest to him in the interval between the meetings.
Page 42 - 3. By mutual rights of succession to property. 4. By reciprocal obligations of help, defense, and redress of injuries. 5. By mutual right and obligation to intermarry in certain determinate cases, especially...
Page 34 - ... destructive processes and foreign graftings, is still so manifest in the modern Frenchman, that the above sentences fit him precisely. Mr. Godwin gives the amusing testimony of an old Roman soldier : All the Gauls are tall, fair-skinned, golden-haired, and terrible for the fierceness of their eyes. They are greedy of quarrels, great braggarts, and insolent. A whole troop of strangers could scarcely resist a single one of them in a brawl, and particularly if he were assisted by his stalwart, blue-eyed...
Page 183 - But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled fairies, when the sun goes down, Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day.
Page 439 - ... great men, as well as prelates, were present. Hincmar, in an important document at the close of the ninth century (Guizot, Lect. 20), gives some account of these assemblies, and says that it was in the option of the lay and ecclesiastical lords to sit together or separately, according to the affairs of which they had to treat — ecclesiastical, secular, or both.
Page 188 - ... He heard complaints, adjusted differences, performed the office of a justice of the peace. He afterwards repaired to the church, performed service, preached, taught, sometimes many hours consecutively. Returned home, he took his repast, and while this lasted he heard some pious reading ; or else he dictated, and the people often entered freely, and listened. He also performed manual labor, sometimes spinning for the poor, sometimes cultivating the fields of his church.