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It follows, then, that the authority of the Church depends, not on traditions, but traditions on the Church."] 1020 (return) 1021 (return) 1022 (return) 111 (return) 112 (return) 113 (return) 114 (return) 115 (return) 116 (return) 117 (return) 118 (return) 119 (return) 1110 (return) 1111 (return) 1112 (return) 1113 (return) 1114 (return) 1115 (return) 1116 (return) 1117 (return) 1118 (return) 1119 (return) 1120 (return) 1121 (return) 1122 (return) 1123 (return) 121 (return) 123 (return) 124 (return) 125 (return) 126 (return) 127 (return) 128 (return) 129 (return) 1210 (return) 1211 (return) 131 (return) 132 (return) 133 (return) 134 (return) 135 (return) 136 (return) 137 (return) 138 (return) 139 (return) 1310 (return) 1311 (return) 1312 (return) 1313 (return) 1314 (return) 1315 (return) 1316 (return) 1317 (return) 1318 (return) 1319 (return) 1320 (return) 1321 (return) 1322 (return) 1323 (return) 1324 (return) 141 (return) 142 (return) 143 (return) 144 (return) 145 (return) 146 (return) 147 (return) 148 (return) 149 (return) 1410 (return) "My father explained that he could not mend the bowl, but the trouble he could, by the gift of a sixpence to buy another. However, on opening his purse it was empty of silver, and he had to make amends by promising to meet his little friend in the same spot at the same hour next day, and to bring the sixpence with him, bidding her, meanwhile, tell her mother she had seen a gentleman who would bring her the money for the bowl next day. The child, entirely trusting him, went on her way comforted. On his return home he found an invitation awaiting him to dine in Bath the following evening, to meet some one whom he specially wished to see. He hesitated for some little time, trying to calculate the possibility of giving the meeting to his little friend of the broken bowl and of still being in time for the dinner-party in Bath; but finding this could not be, he wrote to decline accepting the invitation on the plea of 'a pre-engagement,' saying to us, 'I cannot disappoint her, she trusted me so implicitly.'"] 1411 (return) In the same letter, Miss Nightingale says: "England, from her grand mercantile and commercial successes, has been called sordid; God knows she is not. The simple courage, the enduring patience, the good sense, the strength to suffer in silence—what nation shows more of this in war than is shown by her commonest soldier? I have seen men dying of dysentery, but scorning to report themselves sick lest they should thereby throw more labour on their comrades, go down to the trenches and make the trenches their deathbed. There is nothing in history to compare with it...."] "Say what men will, there is something more truly Christian in the man who gives his time, his strength, his life, if need be, for something not himself—whether he call it his Queen, his country, or his colours—than in all the asceticism, the fasts, the humiliations, and confessions which have ever been made: and this spirit of giving one's life, without calling it a sacrifice, is found nowhere so truly as in England."] 1412 (return) 1413 (return) 151 (return) 152 (return) 153 (return) 154 (return) 155 (return) 156 (return) 157 (return) 158 (return) 159 (return) 1510 (return) 1511 (return) 1512 (return) 1513 (return) 1514 (return) 1515 (return) 1516 (return) 1517 (return) 1518 (return) 1519 (return) 161 (return) 162 (return) 163 (return) 164 (return) 165 (return) 166 (return) 167 (return) "I am afraid that these opinions will not be relished in France. However correct, they differ too much from what is usually said and asserted at home. I should wish some enlightened and unprejudiced Frenchmen to come to Prussia and make this country their study. They would soon discover that they were living in the midst of a strong, earnest, and intelligent nation, entirely destitute, it is true, of noble and delicate feelings, of all fascinating charms, but endowed with every solid virtue, and alike distinguished for untiring industry, order, and economy, as well as for patriotism, a strong sense of duty, and that consciousness of personal dignity which in their case is so happily blended with respect for authority and obedience to the law. They would see a country with firm, sound, and moral institutions, whose upper classes are worthy of their rank, and, by possessing the highest degree of culture, devoting themselves to the service of the State, setting an example of patriotism, and knowing how to preserve the influence legitimately their own. They would find a State with an excellent administration where everything is in its right place, and where the most admirable order prevails in every branch of the social and political system. Prussia may be well compared to a massive structure of lofty proportions and astounding solidity, which, though it has nothing to delight the eye or speak to the heart, cannot but impress us with its grand symmetry, equally observable in its broad foundations as in its strong and sheltering roof. "And what is France? What is French society in these latter days? A hurly-burly of disorderly elements, all mixed and jumbled together; a country in which everybody claims the right to occupy the highest posts, yet few remember that a man to be employed in a responsible position ought to have a well-balanced mind, ought to be strictly moral, to know something of the world, and possess certain intellectual powers; a country in which the highest offices are frequently held by ignorant and uneducated persons, who either boast some special talent, or whose only claim is social position and some versatility and address. What a baneful and degrading state of things! And how natural that, while it lasts, France should be full of a people without a position, without a calling, who do not know what to do with themselves, but are none the less eager to envy and malign every one who does.... "The French do not possess in any very marked degree the qualities required to render general conscription acceptable, or to turn it to account. Conceited and egotistic as they are, the people would object to an innovation whose invigorating force they are unable to comprehend, and which cannot be carried out without virtues which they do not possess—self-abnegation, conscientious recognition of duty, and a willingness to sacrifice personal interests to the loftier demands of the country. As the character of individuals is only improved by experience, most nations require a chastisement before they set about reorganising their political institutions. So Prussia wanted a Jena to make her the strong and healthy country she is."] 168 (return) 169 (return) 1610 (return) 1611 (return) 1612 (return) 1613 (return) In the case of George Wilson, the bleeding was in the first instance from the stomach, though he afterwards suffered from lung haemorrhage like Keats. Wilson afterwards, speaking of the Lives of Lamb and Keats, which had just appeared, said he had been reading them with great sadness. "There is," said he, "something in the noble brotherly love of Charles to brighten, and hallow, and relieve that sadness; but Keats's deathbed is the blackness of midnight, unmitigated by one ray of light!"] 1614 (return) "Here lies George Wilson, Overtaken by Nemesis; He died not of Haemoptysis, But of Haematemesis."] 1615 (return) 171 (return) 172 (return) 173 (return) 174 (return) 175 (return) 176 (return) 177 (return) 178 (return) 179 (return) 181 (return) 182 (return) 183 (return) 184 (return) 185 (return) 186 (return) 187 (return) "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beween my outcast state, And troubled deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate; WISHING ME LIKE TO ONE MORE RICH IN HOPE, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy, contented least; Yet in these thoughts, MYSELF ALMOST DESPISING, Haply I think on thee," &c.—SONNET XXIX. "So I, MADE LAME by sorrow's dearest spite," &c.—SONNET XXXVI] 188 (return) "Speak of MY LAMENESS, and I straight will halt."—SONNET LXXXIX.] 189 (return) "Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there, And MADE MYSELF A MOTLEY TO THE VIEW, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new," &c.—SONNET CX. "Oh, for my sake do you with fortune chide! The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, THAN PUBLIC MEANS, WHICH PUBLIC MANNERS BREED; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued, To what it works in like the dyer's hand," &c.—SONNET CXI.] 1810 (return) "In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our loves a separable spite, Which though it alter not loves sole effect; Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight, I may not evermore acknowledge thee, Lest MY BEWAILED GUILT SHOULD DO THEE SHAME."—SONNET XXXVI.] 1811 (return) 1812 (return) 1813 (return) 1814 (return) 1815 (return) All this is perfectly true, and it explains why the comparatively unsociable Germans, English, and Americans, are spreading over the earth, while the intensely sociable Frenchmen, unable to enjoy life without each other's society, prefer to stay at home, and France fails to extend itself beyond France.] 1816 (return) 1817 (return) 1818 (return) 1819 (return) 191 (return) 192 (return) 193 (return) 194 (return) 195 (return) 196 (return) 197 (return) 198 (return) 199 (return) 1910 (return) 1911 (return) 1912 (return) Cousin also says of Spinoza:—"The author whom this pretended atheist most resembles is the unknown author of 'The Imitation of Jesus Christ.'"] 1913 (return) 1914 (return) "In hollow cube Training his devilish engin'ry, impal'd On every side WITH SHADOWING SQUADRONS DEEP TO HIDE THE FRAUD." "The indubitable fact," says Mr. Edwards, in his book 'On Libraries,' "that these lines have a certain appositeness to an important manoeuvre at Austerlitz, gives an independent interest to the story; but it is highly imaginative to ascribe the victory to that manoeuvre. And for the other preliminaries of the tale, it is unfortunate that Napoleon had learned a good deal about war long before he had learned anything about Milton."] 1915 (return) 1916 (return) 1917 (return) 1918 (return) 201 (return) 202 (return) 203 (return) 204 (return) 205 (return) 206 (return) 207 (return) 208 (return) 209 (return) 2010 (return) 2011 (return) 2012 (return) 2013 (return) 2014 (return) 2015 (return) 2016 (return) 2017 (return) 2018 (return) 2019 (return) 2020 (return) 2021 (return) 211 (return) 212 (return) 213 (return) 214 (return) 215 (return) 216 (return) 217 (return) 218 (return) 219 (return) 2110 (return) 2111 (return) 2112 (return) 2113 (return) 2114 (return) 2115 (return) 2116 (return) 2117 (return) 2118 (return)
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