Italy and the Italians, Volume 1Henry Colburn, publisher, 1840 |
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Page 183 - ... the views of their legislators. Still but few of the lowest classes can be made to understand and value the blessings of education, and the rest must be guided to their own good by the argument of force. Now,
Page 258 - The students are not only under strict scientific superintendence, but also under the close surveillance of the police. No student is allowed to choose his dwelling or leave it without permission of the prefect, who appoints the place where he is to lodge and board. " Whoever wishes to receive students into his house must undertake the responsibility for their observance of the laws which regulate their going to mass and confession, fasting, and even their clothing and their beards. Neglect of these...
Page 117 - The Coptic, Maronite, and Catholic Armenian Churches, although differing in every thing outward from the Church of Rome, are in unity, since they acknowledge her supreme authority. The Anglican Church, even brought back to the most Catholic externals, can never be in unity as long as she denies her...
Page 258 - They are forbidden to swim, to frequent theatres, balls, coflee or gaming-houses ; to perform in private plays and the like ; and it is the business of the police to see these prohibitions attended to. " The students are not only under strict scientific superintendence, but also under the close surveillance of the police. No student is allowed to choose his dwelling or leave it without permission of the prefect, who appoints the place where he is to lodge and board. " Whoever wishes to receive students...
Page 256 - Laudate pueri' and a prayer for the king. In the afternoon : 1, a quarter of an hour of religious reading; 2, hymn and prayer ; 3, three quarters of an hour explanation of the catechism, (namely, dissertations on the importance of fasting, confessing, and otherwise observing the five commandments of the Church). The schools last three and a half hours in the forenoon, and two and a half hours in the afternoon, &c., &c.
Page 120 - ... and such a clamour of tongues ! All that with us would be deemed most extravagant in this respect is a mere trifle in comparison with what is here the order of the day."— Vol.
Page 99 - In the latter every thing reminds you of the past, as the great and important period ; here, on the contrary, the present is full of life, and all that belongs to antiquity, not excepting even the glorious cathedral, is thrown into the back-ground. The last-named building stands more detached than the Venetian St. Mark's, and appears to belong to the present quite as much as to a bygone period. Besides, F 2 •V.
Page 109 - ... Manzoni replied in the affirmative, and reminded me of Gbthe's reproach, that there was too marked a distinction between the historical and the personal in the Promessi Sposi ; whereas it had been his wish throughout to keep them asunder, so that there might be no possibility of confounding then'. To this I replied that, viewed with an artist's eye, and treated by an artist's hand, history and fiction both became truth, and that to me Don Abbondio was a much more living character than thousands...
Page 110 - Abbondio was a much more living character than thousands of priests who might be seen running about. Shakspeare's Caesar, I said, was more historical to me than the Caesar of many manuals of history ; and Homer I should be sorry to exchange for the historical osteology of all his works. These, Manzoni said, were minds of so superior an order, that, with respect to them, he was ready to concede the point. He expatiated particularly on the unexampled impartiality of Shakspeare, and on his power to...
Page 246 - The Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion is the only religion of the State. The other forms of worship now existing are tolerated in conformity with the laws.