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Page xi
... councils of the Almighty , and watches over terrestrial destinies , thus caressing the democratical tendencies of a people who have ever aspired and still aspire to political emancipation ; it promotes indolence by indulgences and ...
... councils of the Almighty , and watches over terrestrial destinies , thus caressing the democratical tendencies of a people who have ever aspired and still aspire to political emancipation ; it promotes indolence by indulgences and ...
Page xiii
... council with its oppressors , and favouring or at least not opposing tyranny . These reflections have thrown into the ways of rationalism many clear intellects , to whom love of coun- try is the guide towards a better future . It does ...
... council with its oppressors , and favouring or at least not opposing tyranny . These reflections have thrown into the ways of rationalism many clear intellects , to whom love of coun- try is the guide towards a better future . It does ...
Page xx
... council of Trent , which per- petuity reduced families to despair and introduced worse customs . Some reform was hoped for in the augmentation of the paternal authority which may be said to have been annihilated in the French code , but ...
... council of Trent , which per- petuity reduced families to despair and introduced worse customs . Some reform was hoped for in the augmentation of the paternal authority which may be said to have been annihilated in the French code , but ...
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... council of state and is dependent on the ministry . The council of intendency in each of the provinces takes up in the first instance causes connected with the administration , and , in case of appeals being made , they are submitted to ...
... council of state and is dependent on the ministry . The council of intendency in each of the provinces takes up in the first instance causes connected with the administration , and , in case of appeals being made , they are submitted to ...
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... courts for con- spiracies , and courts martial for insurrections . The municipal administration is directed by a syndic and the decurionato or communal council , In this varying in number , from ten to thirty XXVIII REFLECTIONS ON ITALY .
... courts for con- spiracies , and courts martial for insurrections . The municipal administration is directed by a syndic and the decurionato or communal council , In this varying in number , from ten to thirty XXVIII REFLECTIONS ON ITALY .
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Page 87 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 87 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Page 110 - And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli...
Page 34 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
Page 53 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale: — Look -back! Lo! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful!
Page 110 - THEY stand between the mountains and the sea ; *" Awful memorials, but of whom we know not ! The seaman, passing, gazes from the deck. The buffalo-driver, in his shaggy cloak, Points to the work of magic and moves on. Time was they stood along the crowded street, Temples of gods ! and on their ample steps What various habits, various tongues, beset The brazen gates for prayer and sacrifice...
Page 65 - Reigned absolute, the mistress of the world ; The mighty vision that the prophets saw, And trembled ; that from nothing, from the least, The lowliest village (what but here and there A reed-roofed cabin by a river side ?) Grew into every thing : and, year by year, Patiently, fearlessly working her way O'er brook and field, o'er continent and sea...
Page 22 - Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt, Thy throne had still been thine, or never been; For Daring made thy rise as fall: thou seek'st Even now to re-assume the imperial mien, And shake again the world, the Thunderer of the scene!
Page 87 - The garland forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head ; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread.
Page 107 - To he the scorn of them that knew him not, Trampling alike the giver and his gift, The gift a pearl precious, inestimable, A lay divine, a lay of love and war, To charm, ennoble, and, from age to age, Sweeten the labour, when the oar was plied Or on the ADRIAN or the TUSCAN sea.