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No doubt that, in the city-life of later periods, this ideal broke down on both sides: household worship was neglected and family life became less dutiful. But it was still, especially in the country, the true backbone of Roman society, and no one can read the opening odes of Horace's third book without feeling the strength of Augustus' appeal to it.
After the business matters of the estate were all in order, he went away, intending, I believe, to stay a year or two. But he came back before many months were over, and settled down into the routine of business life, which now seemed to have become necessary to him. Travel was only a weariness to him in his state of mind; and work, and city-life, seemed the panacea.
The scene introduced by the poet as a striking and characteristic, but still only occasional, feature of city-life in the heroic age has stiffened, at the opening of the history of civil process, into the regular, ordinary formalities of a lawsuit.
In the present instance, it had all at once occurred to her that her sister would not be likely to care half so much about the gayeties of fashionable watering-places and city-life as she did, and might therefore treat with indifference what was to her an affair of the greatest moment; and a snub being one of those things which Cornelia found it most difficult, even in the mildest form, to endure, she had resolved, on the spur of the moment, to approach the topic of her proposed departure with the same coolness which she expected Sophie to manifest when she heard about it.
If it is so there is wide suffering deep, for it, must be silent. Cornelia suggests one comfort for them that they will think less of poverty. "Why was Brookfield ever bought? Our old peaceful City-life the vacant Sundays! my ears are haunted by their bells for Evening Service. I said 'There they go, the dowdy population of heaven! I remember it now.
Fortune had left her, sorrow had baptized her; the routine of labor and the loneliness of almost friendless city-life were before her.
It is the concrete presentation of this city-life that lends so peculiar a charm to the dialogues of Plato. The spirit of metaphysics puts on the human form; and Dialectic walks the streets and contends in the palaestra.
As to the management of estates, no material difference is perceptible between the Catonian system formerly set forth and that described to us by Varro, except that the latter shows the traces for better and for worse of the progress of city-life on a great scale in Rome. "Formerly," says Varro, "the barn on the estate was larger than the manor-house; now it is wont to be the reverse."
The presence that can bring shame to a San Francisco hoodlum must indeed be kingly, or in some way impressive. In that genus the beastliness and devilishness of American city-life reach their lowest denomination when the brutality of the savage and the lowest forms of civilized vice are combined, human nature touches bottom. The Emperor never spoke of his early life.
I would quite as soon trust her with him as with mammy." But aunt Emily, and mother too, had forgotten to take into account the captain's deficiency of a sense of the fitness of things, at least, of matters appertaining to a city-life.
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