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Page xix - in numberless ways she provided for the worship of God and the welfare of the sisters," and that " she so conducted herself with regard to exterior affairs, that she seemed to have the spirit of a man rather than of a woman.
Page 116 - ... nodes of the planets by figures and numbers ; there Paul reveals the mysteries ; there his neighbour Dionysius arranges and distinguishes the hierarchies ; there the virgin Carmentis reproduces in Latin characters all that Cadmus collected in Phoenician letters ; there indeed opening our treasuries and unfastening our purse-strings we scattered money with joyous heart and purchased inestimable books with mud and sand.
Page 144 - Maid of God ! O Joan ! O Virgin rare ! Mark me this portent ! strange beyond all telling ! How this despoiled Kingdom stricken lay, And no man raised his hand to guard his dwelling, Until a Woman came to show the way. Until a Woman (since no man dare try) Rallied the land and bade the traitors fly. Honour to Womankind ! It needs must be That God loves Woman, since He fashioned Thee ! O strange ! This little maid sixteen years old On whom no harness weigheth overmuch.
Page 73 - Lord! I bring you my treasure; It is greater than the mountains, Wider than the world, Deeper than the sea, Higher than the clouds More glorious than the sun, More manifold than the stars, It outweighs the whole earth!
Page 30 - Folks tell them to the harp and the rote, and the music is sweet to hear." Doubtless it was this sweet music which both soothed and thrilled even before the words were understood, for on sad and festive days alike, the sweet lays of Brittany were always to be heard. La reine chante doucement, La voiz acorde a 1'estrument : Les mains sont belles, li lais bons, Douce la voiz et has li tons.
Page 73 - ... mountains, wider than the world, deeper than the sea, higher than the clouds, more beautiful than the sun, more manifold than the stars, and outweighs the riches of the earth.
Page 72 - ... heart strong, a blind heart seeing, a cold heart burning. It draws the great God down into the small heart, it drives the hungry soul out to the full God, it brings together the two lovers, God and the soul, into a blissful place, where they speak much of love." Again, in a spirit of self- examination, she writes : " What most of all hinders the spiritually-minded from full perfection is, that they pay so little heed to small sins. I tell you, of a truth, that when I abstain from a laugh that...