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But he had his feet on the ground, and was soaked through, willy nilly, with its forces; he lived in touch with realities, with the seasons and the days and nights, how we do forget those great, simple, life-giving, cleansing things! and his mind was molded to what he owed to the soil, to the realities, to Dea Roma; and Duty became a great thing in his life.
The "Servant of the servants of God" chides and corrects the would-be "ecumenical patriarch," who has risen since Constantine from the suffragan of a Thracian city to be bishop of Nova Roma and right hand of the emperor; who has deposed Alexandria from the second place and Antioch from the third, but cannot take the first place from the See of Peter.
Under his own name he wrote Earth's Voices, Sospiri di Roma, Sospiri d'Italia, poems, and books on Rossetti, Shelley, Browning, and Heine; also a few novels. Humorist, b. in Massachusetts. After working on steam-boats and farming, he became an auctioneer, and settled at Poughkeepsie.
Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art, Machiavelli's works, Petrarch's Letters, Casa Guidi Windows, Buhle's History of Modern Philosophy, Story's Roba di Roma, Liddell's Rome, Gibbon, Mosheim, and one might almost say the whole range of Italian literature in the original.
The massacre of countless people of less consequence, the plunder of the rest, and all the horrors of torture and traffic in human life, show clearly enough what was possible in the 'Sacco di Roma.
His lenity was far from procuring him indulgence in the opinions of his countrymen; on the contrary, the inhabitants of Granada, when they learnt from the liberated garrison the stratagem by which Roma had been captured, cursed Cid Hiaya for a traitor, and the garrison joined in the malediction.* * Pulgar, Cron., part 3, cap. 130; Cura de los Palacios, cap. 90.
I smiled, eager to lift the gloom plainly visible on her face, in contrast to her usual calm and cheerful expression. Roma and I sat awhile in silent prayer for guidance. A year earlier, my sister had asked me to initiate her into KRIYA YOGA, in which she was making notable progress. An inspiration seized me. "Tomorrow," I said, "I am going to the Dakshineswar temple.
It was a coin of Vitiges, showing a helmeted bust of the goddess of the city, with legend 'Invicta Roma. 'Invicta Roma, muttered Basil sadly, with head bent. Meanwhile, out of earshot of their masters, the two servants conversed with not less intimacy. At a glance these men were seen to be of different races.
Byzantium worked woe to the elder sister of whom she was jealous. Under the infamous treasons of Rufinus and Eutropius, the words might have been uttered with even fuller truth than in their original application "Suis et ipsa Roma viribus ruit". Thus Alaric first took Rome. But he did not take the Primacy.
It was to him alone, as both judge and patron, that Blondus could dedicate his 'Roma Triumphans, the first great attempt at a complete exposition of Roman antiquity. Nor was the enthusiasm for the classical past of Italy confined at this period to the capital.
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