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Two guards entered the apartment of De Thou, and led him forth. He advanced, and bowed gravely, while an angelical smile played upon his lips. Embracing Cinq-Mars, "Here at last is our day of glory," said he. "We are about to gain heaven and eternal happiness."
There was no feebleness of step as at other times; his frame was not bent, nor did his hand rest ominously upon his heart. Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body. It might be spiritual and imparted to him by angelical ministrations.
"She succeeded in making us poor," Rebecca said with an air of angelical patience; "but how can I be angry with a woman who has given me one of the best husbands in the world? And has not her own avarice been sufficiently punished by the ruin of her own hopes and the loss of the property by which she set so much store? Poor!" she cried. "Dear Lady Jane, what care we for poverty?
Let this become matter of traditional belief, as a thing possible in epilepsy, i.e., in 'diabolical, or 'angelical possession'. Add the honest but hallucinatory persuasion of the patient that he was so levitated, and let him be a person of honour and of sanctity, say St. Theresa, St. Francis, or St. Joseph of Cupertino.
'A woman, says Crashaw, 'for angelical height of speculation: for masculine courage of performance, more than a woman; who, while yet a child, outran maturity, and durst plot a martyrdom. Scarce had she learnt to lisp the name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so long sport with that breath, Which, spent, can buy so brave a death.
What I here aim at is, that the youth should be made sensible, that words are not otherwise valuable than as they are images and copies of what passes in the hidden man of the heart; especially considering that a great many, who appear very angelical in their devotions, if we take our measures of them from their voice and tone, do soon, after these intervals of seeming seriousness are over, return with the dog to the vomit, and give palpable evidences of their earthliness and sensuality; their passion and their pride."
"Our stone angelical whereby All secret potencies to light are brought has itself suffered a transmutation! A transmutation do I say! Rather an eclipse, a darkening! He, whom matrons for their maidens fear, has come, has seen, has conquered! And we poor mortals bow before him." Still Claude, his face burning, his ears tingling, put force upon himself and sat mute, his eyes on the board.
"He had read some ultra-book or other," said Sheffield; "or had seen some beautiful nun sculptured on a chancel-screen, and was carried away by romance as others have been and are." "Don't you suppose," said Carlton, "that those good fellows who now are so full of 'sacerdotal purity, 'angelical blessedness, and so on, will one and all be married by this time ten years?"
The radical point in the new philosophy, as it applies to the human nature in particular, is the pivot on which all turns here, here as elsewhere in the writings of this school, the distinction of 'the double self, the distinction between the particular and private nature, with its unenlightened instincts of passion, humour, will, caprice, that self which is changeful, at war with itself, self-inconsistent, and, therefore, truly, no SELF, since the true self is the principle of identity and immutability, the distinction between that 'private' nature when it is developed instinctively as 'selfishness, and that rational immutable self which is constitutionally present though latent, in all men, and one in them all; that noble special human form which embraces and reconciles in its intention, the private good with the good of that worthier whole whereof we are individually parts and members; 'this is the distinction on which all turns here. For this philosophy refuses, on philosophical grounds, to accept this low, instinctive private nature, in any dressing up of accidental power as the god of its idolatry, in place of that 'divine or angelical nature, which is the perfection of the human form, and the true sovereignty.
And that qualities finer and more susceptible underlie an exterior more polished and an ease more complete," he bowed, "than our poor Tissot could boast! But here is Our stone angelical whereby All secret potencies to light are brought! Doubtless" with a wave of the hand he indicated the girl who had that moment entered "you have met before?"
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