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... felt themselves out - argued ; and , as they felt ashamed to act contrary to conclusions reached by rigid logic , it was agreed by the gentlemen that they would accept Lord and Lady Di.'s invitation . When this was settled , the ...
... felt themselves out - argued ; and , as they felt ashamed to act contrary to conclusions reached by rigid logic , it was agreed by the gentlemen that they would accept Lord and Lady Di.'s invitation . When this was settled , the ...
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... felt like a man in a pillory . Oliver was saved by the tact of Lady Di. , who at once enlisted him in a colloquy behind her fan , which lasted ten minutes . His was the safety of an ostrich , when closed around by a cloud of hunters ...
... felt like a man in a pillory . Oliver was saved by the tact of Lady Di. , who at once enlisted him in a colloquy behind her fan , which lasted ten minutes . His was the safety of an ostrich , when closed around by a cloud of hunters ...
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... felt were all about him . And the supper proceeded as all suppers do . At first there was here and there a pop of champagne - corks , until there was a scattering fire of musketry , resembling a regiment of militia after breaking up of ...
... felt were all about him . And the supper proceeded as all suppers do . At first there was here and there a pop of champagne - corks , until there was a scattering fire of musketry , resembling a regiment of militia after breaking up of ...
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... felt queerly ; but he was , uncon- sciously to himself , under the influence of singular and superior fascinations ... felt it ; and felt he might as well try to get out of a dungeon as out of that recess , until he was led out by Lady ...
... felt queerly ; but he was , uncon- sciously to himself , under the influence of singular and superior fascinations ... felt it ; and felt he might as well try to get out of a dungeon as out of that recess , until he was led out by Lady ...
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... felt himself a culprit , far more of a culprit than he was , in fact . But in this , as in all things else , when in a false position , everything is exaggerated , and the mind is not so much a broken bow as a bow which drives home the ...
... felt himself a culprit , far more of a culprit than he was , in fact . But in this , as in all things else , when in a false position , everything is exaggerated , and the mind is not so much a broken bow as a bow which drives home the ...
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Page 80 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 101 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 377 - And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Page 172 - Peter elicited a spring of water for his jailor's baptism in the Mamertine. St. Francis Xavier turned salt water into fresh for five hundred travellers; St. Raymond was transported over the sea on his cloak ; St. Andrew shone brightly in the dark; St. Scholastica gained by her prayers a pouring rain; St. Paul was fed by ravens; and St. Frances saw her guardian angel.
Page 172 - I firmly believe that the relics of the saints are doing innumerable miracles and graces daily, and that it needs only for a Catholic to show devotion to any saint in order to receive special benefits from his intercession. I firmly believe that saints in their life-time have before now raised the dead to life, crossed the sea without vessels, multiplied grain and bread, cured incurable diseases, and superseded the operation of the laws of the universe in a multitude of ways.
Page 389 - Its very atmosphere seems holy, and its scrupulous and excessive cleanness makes all profane dwellings appear dirty by comparison. We were accompanied by a Bishop, Senor Madrid, the same who assisted at the Archbishop's consecration; a good-looking man, young and tall, and very splendidly dressed. His robes were of purple satin, covered with fine point lace, with a large cross of diamonds and amethysts.
Page 211 - And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Page 389 - s hand, and feel something human beside me, I could have fancied myself transported into a congregation of evil spirits. Now and then, but very seldom, a suppressed groan was heard, and occasionally the voice of the monk encouraging them by ejaculations, or by short passages from Scripture. Sometimes the organ struck up, and the poor wretches, in a faint voice, tried to join in the Miserere.
Page 172 - Certainly the Catholic Church, from east to west, from north to south, is, according to our conceptions, hung with miracles. The store of relics is inexhaustible; they are multiplied through all lands, and each particle of each has in it at least a dormant, perhaps an energetic virtue of supernatural operation.
Page 172 - Dei, blest medals, the scapular, the cord of St. Francis, all are the medium of divine manifestations and graces. Crucifixes have bowed the head to the suppliant, and Madonnas have bent their eyes upon assembled crowds. St. Januarius's blood liquefies periodically at Naples, and St. Winifred's well is the scene of wonders even in an unbelieving country. Women...