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My hurried journey was like a dream, the dream of a ruined gambler; I was in despair at having received no news. Had the confessor pushed austerity so far as to exclude me from Clochegourde? I accused Madeleine, Jacques, the Abbe Dominis, all, even Monsieur de Mortsauf.
Finally, the several discoveries which Sir Isaac Newton has made on light are equal to the boldest things which the curiosity of man could expect after so many philosophical novelties. Till Antonio de Dominis the rainbow was considered as an inexplicable miracle. This philosopher guessed that it was a necessary effect of the sun and rain.
I saw them behind the grave face of the Abbe Dominis, Jacques' tutor. "No," I replied, "and in future I am to have six months' leave, which will always be spent here Why, what is the matter?" I said to the countess, putting my arm round her waist and holding her up in presence of them all. "Oh, don't!" she said, springing away from me; "it is nothing."
The plebeians are looked upon almost as slaves, having no share in public affairs. Many among them, loaded with debt, heavily taxed, or oppressed by the higher class, give themselves in servitude to the nobility, and then, in hos eadem omnia sunt jura quoe dominis in servos, the nobles lord it over them as, with us, masters over their slaves."
"He was well named De Dominis in the plural," says Crakanthorp, "for he could serve two masters, or twenty, if they paid him wages." Our author now proceeded to finish his great work, which he published in 1617 in three large folios De Republica Ecclesiastica, of which the original still exists among the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
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