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I see them now, and hewing away like men too. They are all on foot but two; and we have not a cohort of infantry left for many a mile round. 'I know who they are! cried Raphael, suddenly striking spurs into his horse. 'I will swear to that armour among a thousand. And there is a litter in the midst of them. On! and fight, men, if you ever fought in your lives! 'Softly! cried Synesius.
One of a pair of fleet bloodhounds which were ever leashed together was named Nich, and the other Syn, in memory that he had been betrothed on the festival of Saint Nicodemus and wedded on Saint Synesius' day.
'The reality of philosophy has died long ago, but the great ones find it still worth their while to worship its shadow. 'Some of them worship more than a shadow, when they haunt her house, said Peter. 'Do you think Orestes goes thither only for philosophy? 'We must not judge harsh judgments, said the old priest; 'Synesius of Cyrene is a holy man, and yet he loves Hypatia well.
And the ostriches, unable, as Synesius said, to keep their pace against the breeze, turned sharp on their pursuers, and beating the air with outspread wings, came down the wind again, at a rate even more wonderful than before. 'Ride at him, Raphael ride at him, and turn him into those bushes! cried Synesius, fitting an arrow to his bow.
After a fruitless attempt to reclaim the haughty magistrate by mild and religious admonition, Synesius proceeds to inflict the last sentence of ecclesiastical justice, which devotes Andronicus, with his associates and their families, to the abhorrence of earth and heaven.
His poems strike me as standing in the very first class of the productions of the Christian centuries. Synesius and John of Euchaita! I shall always think of those two together not by their similarity, but their dignity. I return you the books you lent me with true thanks, and also those which Mrs. Smith, I believe, left in your hands for me.
'Baby that I am still! cried Synesius, tears of excitement glittering in his eyes;.... while Raphael gave himself up to the joy, and forgot even Victoria, in the breathless rush over rock and bush, sandhill and watercourse. 'Take care of that dry torrent-bed! Hold up, old horse! This will not last two minutes more.
He flourished in the third century, and wrote a defence of Christianity, in dialogue form, entitled, "Octavius." Synesius, who had too much learning and too little zeal for a saint, was for some time a great freethinker; he could not believe the resurrection till he was made a bishop, and then pretended to be convinced by a lying miracle. He also prefers atheism before superstition. Mr.
Speculative philosophers do not usually covet the crown of martyrdom, and are seldom unwilling to fling down a few religious sops to the Cerberus of popular bigotry. It was the boast of Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, that when communing with himself, he was always a philosopher, but when dealing with the mass of mankind, he was always a priest.
'Synesius is himself still, I see, and not unworthy of his ancestor Hercules; and though he shrinks from cleansing the Augean stable of my soul, paws like the war-horse in the valley at the hope of undertaking any lesser labours in my behalf. But, my dear generous bishop, this matter is more serious, and I, the subject of it, have become more serious also, than you fancy.
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