His lion, however, looks as if his face and velvet paws were covered with calf’s skin, or leather gloves pulled carefully over them. Who would not fling himself back to this period of idle enchantment? This fine race of hillmen were inveterate…
Adhibitis tamen uiris mathematicis pingendique arte peritissimis, Michaele Wolgemut et Wilhelmo Pleydenwurff, quorum solerti acuratissimaque animaduersione tum ciuitatum tum illustrium uirorum figure inserte sunt. An exception might be made for walking of the racing type–the kind of thing which begins on Westminster…
_E. All Greek philosophy, except where it drifted into pantheism or pure materialism, was more or less influenced by this tendency. There was not an indifferent company in this brigade. We think that a familiarity with great names and great works is…
Gif man ?one man ofsl?h? He had in this picture attempted the style of Raphael, and has succeeded and even failed—to admiration. · xxi · d · ? There may have been little difficulties at times: when one of you was guiding,…
But if my thoughts were veering to this cheerless, attenuated speculation of nothingness and vanity, they were called back by the sight of the Farnese Theatre—the noblest and most striking monument I have seen of the golden age of Italy. Let us…
Speech guide impromptu. No man can bear in mind every contingency to which he may be exposed. The ‘curve of facility’ (v. The gradations of human life are marked with characteristic felicity, and the landscape, which is thrown in, adds a pastoral…
Justice, if we understand it as the equality of all living men before the laws of creation–and how else can we understand it?–never occupied any one’s attention. In our calmest moments we shall find it no easy thing to give a precise…
And in all ages men have approached truth with this criterion, as though they knew beforehand that truth must be of use and able to protect them. _L. The Normans too, as is shown by the so-called Laws of Henry I., found…
No. scillinga gebete. Perhaps these stories are only circulated to degrade her; or, perhaps, a scheme may have been laid to degrade her in reality, by the persons nearest to her, and most interested in, but most jealous of, her honour! And…
[Sidenote: The ceorlisc and the gesithcund classes.] We have seen how severe a penalty was attached to the crime against the king’s peace of letting a thief once seized escape. But this forgiveness was shown by means of Israel’s suffering; therefore Israel’s…