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He receives many novices Instructs and models them Sends them to different provinces of Italy What he says on this occasion He departs for Tuscany, and passes by Perugia, where he makes a prediction which is accomplished Many young men enter his Order They build a house for him near Cortona His miraculous fast during Lent He commands the devils, and they obey him He cures many miraculously He preaches at Florence Makes a prediction Preaches in various places in Tuscany What his friars are doing in other places He preaches the Lent at Assisi, with great fruit He consecrates, to Jesus Christ, Clare, and, Agnes, her sister Establishes Clare and Agnes in the Church of S. Damian He erects a monastery there, the first one of his second Order, which he then instituted He is troubled by a serious doubt, on which he consults his brethren His doubt is cleared up by an oracle from heaven He goes out to preach Restores a blind girl to sight, and converts many worldly people He sighs for martyrdom Asks permission of the Pope to preach to the infidels Makes conversions at Rome, and establishes his Order there Returns to Assisi and leaves for the Levant Embarks, but is obliged to put into a harbor in Sclavonia Goes by sea to Ancona A miracle which God performs in his favor He converts a celebrated poet Returns to Tuscany, and to S. Mary of the Angels He falls sick Wonderfully humbles himself Tries a vocation Falls sick again and writes to all Christians Departs for Spain and Africa, in search of martyrdom His miracles and other particulars of his journey His profound humility He raises the dead Count Orlando gives him Mount Alverna God miraculously protects him He preaches in Piedmont and passes into Spain Works a miraculous cure there The king, Alphonso IX, permits him to establish his Order there He receives houses there A violent sickness prevents him going to Morocco His actions whilst he is delayed in Spain He returns to Italy His route thither He arrives at S. Mary of the Angels, and disapproves a building there He goes to Mount Alverna Is beaten by devils Mortifies his sense, and taste Makes water spring from a rock Visits the mountain Converts there a celebrated brigand Leaves for Rome Discovers some relics by revelation Makes predictions, and performs miracles and conversions Arrives at Rome whilst the Council of Lateran is sitting The Pope declares to the Council that he has approved the Rule He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, whither he returns He holds the chapter and sends his friars to various countries He thinks of going to Paris Reunites an illustrious family that had been divided Rejoices in his poverty and asks of God a greater love of holy poverty SS. Peter and Paul appear to him at Rome His alliance with S. Dominic He goes to Florence, where Cardinal Hugolin dissuades him from going to Paris He returns to the Valley of Spoleto, and sends three of his disciples to France A celestial vision induces him to ask of the Pope a cardinal protector for his Order What he says on this subject He preaches before the Pope What happened to him in the pulpit The Pope gives him Cardinal Hugolin, as protector of the Order He preaches in the Valley of Rieti Delivers the country from two plagues, and makes some conversions there The houses he builds there He appoints a general chapter at S. Mary of the Angels, for the year 1219 What he did during the year 1218 Efficacy of his prayers He wishes to pull down a new house which he found at S. Mary of the Angels
She rejoices that her friend has taken to work, and hopes that his friends will keep him to recording his own adventures; but she strongly dissuades him from writing a life of Shelley, for how could that be done without bringing her into publicity? which she shrinks from fearfully, though she is forced by her hard situation to meet it in a thousand ways; or as she expresses it, "I will tell you what I am, a silly goose, who, far from wishing to stand forward to assert myself in any way, now that I am alone in the world have but the desire to wrap night and the obscurity of insignificance around me.
When they are divided, it may be feared that law becomes a mere technicality, if not a mere bread-study, and that history is at once thin and vague. But Clio must have made interest with Nemesis; for, but a page or two afterwards, this disregard of history leads Mr Arnold into a very odd blunder. His French friend, M. Fontanès, had thought of writing about Godwin, but Mr Arnold dissuades him.
I am an artist with a way to make for my art: you are a working woman with a career, odd as it is," he smiled whimsically, "that you have chosen, and that you will pursue faithfully until some stalwart young man dissuades you from it, when you will take your place in your niche as wife and mother, and leave me one more beautiful memory." "Surely," Nancy said, "you know it isn't like that."
But this was not his manner of reasoning with Hastings, whose fidelity to his master's sons was without suspect: and yet the Devil, who never dissuades by impossibility, taught him to try him. And so he did.
Idly the children stray in the verger dissuades them and another and another ... man, woman, man, woman, boy ... casting their eyes up, pursing their lips, the same shadow brushing the same faces; the leathern curtain of the heart flaps wide. Nothing could appear more certain from the steps of St.
His birth Prediction of his future greatness His studies He applies himself to commerce His purity, and affection for the poor He is taken prisoner He falls sick His charity increases towards the poor He has a mysterious dream He wishes to go to the war Jesus Christ dissuades him He is rapt in spirit His conversion He kisses a leper Jesus Christ crucified appears to him Salutary effects of this apparition He goes to Rome Mingles with the poor Is tempted by the devil A voice from heaven commands him to restore the Church of S. Peter Damian His devotion to the passion of Jesus Christ He takes some pieces of cloth from his father's house, and sells them, to restore the Church of S. Damian He escapes from the anger of his father, and retires to a cave He appears in Assisi, where he is ill-treated His father confines him His mother delivers him, and he returns to S. Damian He manifests his intention to his father, who appeals to justice, and cites him before the Bishop of Assisi He renounces his inheritance, and gives back his clothes to his father The poverty of his clothing He is beaten by robbers Retires to a monastery They give him a hermit's habit He devotes himself to the leprous Receives the gift of healing, and returns to Assisi, where he searches for stone to restore the Church of Assisi He toils at building as a laborer He lives on alms His father and brother exercise his patience The victories he gains over himself People begin to esteem and honor him He predicts something which is fulfilled He restores the Church of S. Peter and that of S. Mary of the Angels, or the Portiuncula Dwells at S. Mary of the Angels, and is favored there with heavenly apparitions He is called to the apostolical life Renounces money and goes discalced His poor and humble habit God inspires him to preach He weeps bitterly over the sufferings of Jesus Christ Receives three disciples, and retires with them to a deserted cottage He goes on a mission, and his disciples accompany him the way they are treated He receives three other disciples He makes them beg for alms What he said to the Bishop of Assisi, on renouncing all his possessions He predicts to the Emperor Otho the short duration of his glory It is revealed to him that his sins are remitted He is rapt in ecstasy, and predicts the extension of his Order He makes several other predictions, and receives a seventh disciple He proposes a new mission to them The address he makes them on their preparation for, and conduct during, the mission He returns near to Assisi, where he receives four more disciples He assembles all his disciples Composes a Rule, and goes to obtain the Pope's approval He makes a marvellous conversion He knows miraculously what will happen to him at Rome He is at first repulsed by Pope Innocent III., but is afterwards received favorably Difficulties on the approbation of his Rule He overcomes them by an address he makes the Pope The Pope approves his Rule, and accumulates favors on it He leaves Rome with his friars for the valley of Spoleto God provides for his necessities He stops at a deserted church Consults God on his mission, and returns to the cottage of Rivo-torto His sufferings there The instructions he gives God shows him to his brethren under a most marvellous aspect The church of S. Mary of the Angels is given to him He establishes himself there with his Friars
At any rate, Bagnacavallo is high and in a healthy position, quite different from the dirty canals of Venice, which might injure any child's health. Mary thus tries to console Claire, who is planning, in her imagination, various ways of getting at her child, and corresponding with and seeing Shelley on the subject. Mary dissuades Claire from attempting anything in the spring their unlucky time.
Saint Paul earnestly dissuades from it. So do the saints. So do the philosophers of ancient times. Think a while. What a ridiculous association, the philosopher and the chambermaids, writing-desks and cradles, books and distaffs, pens and spindles!
For there is not only pleasure, but, moreover, glory, in conquering and debauching that soft sweetness and that childish modesty, and to reduce a cold and matronlike gravity to the mercy of our ardent desires: 'tis a glory, say they, to triumph over modesty, chastity, and temperance; and whoever dissuades ladies from those qualities, betrays both them and himself.
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