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Those practices in which we most widely depart from the broad and recognised morality of all civilised ages and countries are to us the Palladiums of our jurisprudence. Modes of proceeding which, if now first proposed to us, would be thought to come direct from the devil, have been made so sacred by time that they have lost all the horror of their falseness in the holiness of their age.
Yet some way we surmised that if our towns could have better bookstores and fewer bathtubs we might have felt easier in our minds for the palladiums of our liberties. And it can't be laid to the picture shows this slump in the American book reading average; for the French towns are just as full of picture shows as American towns.
This day was from henceforth marked as unlucky in their calendar, and called Allien'sis. Among others, the Vestals fled from the city, carrying with them the two Palladiums and the sacred fire. They took shelter at Cære, a town of Etru'ria, where they continued to celebrate their religious rites; from this circumstance religious rites acquired the name of ceremonies.
They're giddy palladiums of public schools." "They did, too by the time they'd finished," said McTurk. "As nice a pair of conscientious, well-meanin', upright, pure-souled boys as you'd ever want to meet, Padre. They turned the house upside down Harrison and Craye -with the best motives in the world." "They said so. 'They said it very loud and clear.
My father kept his newspapers also carefully filed away in the garret, but we made sad havoc among the "Palladiums" and other journals that we ought to have kept as antiquarian treasures. We valued the anecdote column and the poet's corner only; these we clipped unsparingly for our scrap-books.
The gregarious club-forming habit, as we have seen, began as far as the University is concerned almost with the admission of the first class. A list of such organizations might be compiled from old Palladiums and Michiganensians, but it would be to little purpose.
In abbeys the law was studied; abbeys were the palladiums of the public liberty by the custody of the royal charters and most of the records.
From the open space in front of the Mansion House diverge streets running to all parts of London and the great bridges over the Thames. The four Inns of Court in London have been described as the palladiums of English liberty the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.
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