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J. A. Symonds: The Renaissance in Italy; the Revival of Learning, 1877, p. 52. Everywhere throughout the Middle Ages learning was the handmaid of theology. Even Roger Bacon with his strong appeal for a new method accepted the dominant mediaeval conviction that all the sciences did but minister to their queen, Theology.
John Addington Symonds an intimate friend of mine had brought out a book of essays, which were not very good and caused no sensation. One night, after dinner, I was sitting in a circle of fashionable men and women none of them particularly intimate with me when Lady Londonderry opened the talk about books. Hardly knowing her, I entered with an innocent zest into the conversation.
The victims received the promised money and died, but I refer readers to Mr. Symonds' work for the story as horrible as any in the horrible history of the sovereigns of the Vatican. Doubtless the walls of this outwardly imposing papal palace here could tell others as ghastly. I had not the slightest inclination to cross the threshold.
She always carried it with her in a voluminous pocket as she hated to be idle. Nancy, busy with her own thoughts, sat gazing abstractedly at the dingy wall. The tread of the sentries could be distinctly heard as they tramped back and forth before the windows and door. The sergeant and Symonds sat by the entrance, watching their prisoners closely.
Lane's boarding house, I went directly up to the captain's sitting room. I rapped and rapped on his door, but could get no response." Symonds paused impressively, and five pairs of eyes watched him almost without blinking. "The captain had told me he was a heavy sleeper; so, thinking I would have to shake him awake, I tried the door knob. It turned, and I entered.
It was published at Oxford in 1612, from two to three years after Smith's return to England. The appendix contains the narratives of several of Smith's companions in Virginia, edited by Dr. Symonds and overlooked by Smith. In one of these is a brief reference to the above-quoted incident.
"Would you recognize the handwriting if you saw it again?" "I think I would, sir," but Symonds looked dubious. The judge advocate picked up several sheets of paper, apparently torn from a notebook, and handed them to the Secret Service agent. "Did the writing of the despatch resemble any of these specimens of the prisoner's handwriting?" he asked.
Many times she walked between them a little way in the wood, whilst they carried the dolls, and in these walks she often told them stories, so that they loved her more and more every day, and tried more and more to please her. "All this time Mrs. Symonds had been so busy with the work of the farm that she had not found time to come herself to thank Mrs.
If it's just the same to you, dear girl, we'll let Symonds buy his own cigars, for the present. The dog-show game is almost the only one I know of where a judge is practically always on the square. People doubt his judgment, sometimes, but there is practically never any doubt of his honesty. Besides, we want to get the exact dope on Bruce. If nobody buys him there, I'm going "
The Symonds girls at Davos told me that you smoked!!! at which I am shocked, because it is not the manner of ladies in England. I always imagine you with a long hookah puffing, puffing, since I heard this; give it up, my dear Margaret it will get you a bad name. Please do observe that I am always serious when I try to make fun.
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