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Page 45 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 38 - For the prayers and righteous deeds of the blessed Mary, ever Virgin, of the blessed Michael the Archangel, of the blessed John the Baptist, of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, Almighty God have mercy upon you, and Jesus Christ absolve you from all your sins, and bring you to life everlasting. Amen.
Page 38 - May the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in whose power and authority we place confidence, intercede for us with the Lord. Amen." "We ask through the prayers and merits of the blessed Mary ever virgin, of the blessed John the Baptist, of the...
Page 108 - Mr. Gary exhibited to the Academy a large photograph •which he had lately brought from Milan, taken recently from the celebrated painting of the Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Dominican Convent in that city. He exhibited at the same time the well-known engraving of the same picture by Raphael Morghen, to show, by comparison of the two, that the engraving is not a close copy of the original, there being marked differences in the features of several of the figures ; and...
Page 38 - Paul, aud all Saints, may the Omnipotent God have mercy upon you, may all your sins be remitted, and Jesus Christ lead you to eternal life. Amen. Indulgence, absolution, and remission of all your sins...
Page 38 - Saints, may the Omnipotent God have mercy upon you, may all your sins be remitted, and Jesus Christ lead you to eternal life. Amen. Indulgence, absolution, and remission of all your sins, space for true and faithful repentance, hearts ever contrite, and amendment of life, may the Omnipotent and merciful God afford you. Amen. And may the blessing of the Omnipotent God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, descend upon you and remain with you ever. Amen...
Page 105 - are carried hither in coffins ; but this is only out of regard for public decency, for the coffins have hinged lids, and being cleared of their contents, are returned for further use. Sometimes, as an additional point of decorum, the bodies are in shrouds, or some other species of covering; more frequently, however, they are naked, in which state they are let fall one by one, feet foremost, into the pit, making n fresh layer over every previous year's mortality.
Page 43 - I should not have expected to /nul the lottery flourishing so conspicuously, and on so mean a scale, under its patronage. The sale of the tickets takes place at shops throughout the town, and at a price so small as to accommodate the poorer inhabitants. The corrupting effects of this universal gambling may be said to degenerate into superstition. At a humble class of stalls, ' Keys to fortune,' or a kind of dream-books, arc sold at a trifling cost.
Page 125 - ... were planted by nobody; they existed before the present gardens were made, and of themselves had taken root in the rocks. It is said that in one of the Italian campaigns, Bonaparte, when at Isola Bella, engraved the word Battaglia, on the largest of these laurels.
Page 7 - ... of a few pence a day, was probably prized as the only available means of honest livelihood. Ordinarily, in constructing our railways, the reasonable plan is pursued of running off truck-loads from the heights to fill up the hollows, but here every spot is made to depend on itself ; the material from the excavations is piled mountain high, along the sides of the line, by that dreary basket-carrying process ; and to form the embankments, acres of the adjoining fields are mercilessly...