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... gallery , hung round with speci- mens of their work . Before the revolution there were forty - two con- vents and thirty - three churches in this city . There are at present but five convents and twenty churches . Thirteen of the ...
... gallery , hung round with speci- mens of their work . Before the revolution there were forty - two con- vents and thirty - three churches in this city . There are at present but five convents and twenty churches . Thirteen of the ...
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... gallery , which is approached by a staircase within , and the whole was surmounted by the statue of their , then victorious , leader . This offensive object has , however , been removed by the present possessor of the throne ; and the ...
... gallery , which is approached by a staircase within , and the whole was surmounted by the statue of their , then victorious , leader . This offensive object has , however , been removed by the present possessor of the throne ; and the ...
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... have at home . There is not one of the palaces at Rome whose en- trance is comparable to this of the Louvre ; for which we are obliged to Perrault , whom Boileau has attempted to turn into ridicule . " The gallery is 32 FARIS .
... have at home . There is not one of the palaces at Rome whose en- trance is comparable to this of the Louvre ; for which we are obliged to Perrault , whom Boileau has attempted to turn into ridicule . " The gallery is 32 FARIS .
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... gallery , the court above described , and the palace of the Thuileries , already form three sides of an immense parallelogram , which Buona- parte had intended to complete , by carrying out a line of building uniform with the gallery ...
... gallery , the court above described , and the palace of the Thuileries , already form three sides of an immense parallelogram , which Buona- parte had intended to complete , by carrying out a line of building uniform with the gallery ...
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... gallery to gallery , filled with these noblest efforts of the human genius , wrested from the oblivion of long departed years . As you enter every apartment , a new era in the history of the world seems to dawn upon you - and you find ...
... gallery to gallery , filled with these noblest efforts of the human genius , wrested from the oblivion of long departed years . As you enter every apartment , a new era in the history of the world seems to dawn upon you - and you find ...
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Page 126 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 147 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 236 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 287 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him.
Page 176 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 223 - That there actually existed an immense treasure of merit, composed of the pious deeds, and virtuous actions, which the saints had performed beyond what was necessary for their own salvation, and which were therefore applicable to the benefit of others ; that the guardian and dispenser of this precious treasure was the Roman pontiff"; and that of consequence he was empowered to assign to such as he thought proper, a...
Page 79 - Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly ; whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.'1 I wish there were 1 Phil.
Page 44 - The guards insisted. They raised their voices, and seemed to wish to call on others to assist them. " Perhaps this was the most terrible moment of this most dreadful morning. Another instant, and the best of Kings would have received from his rebellious subjects indignities too horrid to mention — indignities that would have been to him more insupportable than death. Such was the feeling expressed on his countenance. Turning towards me, he looked at me steadily, as if to ask my advice. Alas ! it...
Page 45 - I heard him pronounce distinctly these memorable words, ' I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge ; I pardon those who have occasioned my death ; and I pray to "God, the blood you are now going to shed may never be visited on France.
Page 43 - My silence answered that we were. One of the guards came to open the carriage door, and the gendarmes would have jumped out, but the king stopped them, and leaning his arm on my knee, "Gentlemen," said he, with the tone of majesty, "I recommend to you this good man. Take care that after my death no insult be offered to him — I charge you to prevent it.