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33896	[ 188] And therefore God said to David in his sin,What hast thou to do to declare my statutes?"
33896	And John says of him, that, when Christ wished to wash his feet, Peter answered and said:"Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"
33896	And continuing His discourse with them, He came to this:"When I sent you, without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye anything?
33896	And further, that she had it not from the consent of all, or even of the greater part of mankind, who can doubt?
33896	And if it is so, is not God in the midst of them, for He Himself promises us this in the Gospel?
33896	And if single combat can not fail to secure justice, is not what is gained in single combat gained as of right?
33896	And thirdly, does the authority of Monarchy come from God directly, or only from some other minister or vicar of God?
33896	But that in practice the Monarch is most disposed to work Justice, who can doubt, except indeed a man who understands not the meaning of the word?
33896	E se l''infimo grado in sè raccoglie Sì grande lume, quant''è la larghezza Di questa rosa nell''estreme foglie?
33896	First, there is the doubt and the question, is it necessary for the welfare of the world?
33896	For what does it profit to labour, even in speaking truth, unless we start from a principle?
33896	For what fruit can he be said to bear who should go about to demonstrate again some theorem of Euclid?
33896	Has not Camillus left us a memorable example of obeying the laws instead of seeking our private advantage?
33896	I.--"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
33896	Lastly, John tells that when Peter saw John, he said unto Jesus:"Lord, and what shall this man do?"
33896	Lives he yet to breathe this air?
33896	Matthew writes that when Jesus had asked His disciples:"Whom say ye that I am?"
33896	PAGE I.--Introduction 177 II.--What is the end of the civil order of mankind?
33896	Secondly, did the Roman people take to itself by right the office of Monarchy?
33896	WHAT ARE THEY?
33896	WHETHER A TEMPORAL MONARCHY IS NECESSARY FOR THE WELL- BEING OF THE WORLD?
33896	WHETHER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MONARCH COMES DIRECTLY FROM GOD, OR FROM SOME VICAR OF GOD?
33896	WHETHER THE ROMAN PEOPLE ASSUMED TO ITSELF BY RIGHT THE DIGNITY OF EMPIRE?
33896	Was not Brutus the first to teach that our sons, that all others, are second in importance to the liberty of our country?
33896	What shall we say to shepherds like these?
33896	What shall we say when the substance of the Church is wasted, while the private estates of their own kindred are enlarged?
33896	Who can fail to see the divine predestination shown forth by the double meeting of blood from every part of the world in the veins of one man?
33896	Who then is so dull of understanding as not to see that this glorious people has won the crown of all the world, by the decision of combat?
33896	Who will not marvel at thee here?
33896	Why should we seek to reason with these, when they are led astray by their evil desires, and so can not see even our first principle?
33896	[ 109][ Footnote 109: Chi crederebbe giù nel mondo errante, Che Rifèo Trojano[A] in questo tondo Fosse la quinta delle luci sante?
33896	[ 180] But if this is so, who will say that human kind is not in its best state, when it can most use this principle?
33896	[ 274] Therefore the Israelites said unto Moses:"Who made thee a judge over us?"
33896	[ Footnote 254: Witte only gives a query(?).
33896	or when Aristotle has shown us what happiness is, should show it to us once more?
33896	or when Cicero has been the apologist of old age, should a second time undertake its defence?
36479	''If I go, who shall stay?
36479	''Then,''he continues,''God''s angel came and took me, and Hell''s angel shrieked,"O thou of Heaven, wherefore dost thou rob me?
36479	''What things are these?''
36479	''[ 47] who can help feeling that Dante was not far from the thought that all souls are dear to God?
36479	''[ 51] Who can fail to recognise the utter truth of Dante''s teaching here?
36479	= Salvator Mundi=; or, Is Christ the Saviour of all Men?
36479	And how was he delivered?
36479	And is this the poem that has enthralled and still enthrals so many a heart?
36479	And what of Beatrice?
36479	But how could one who so well knew what an eternal Hell of sin and suffering meant, believe it to be founded on eternal love?
36479	But were Dante''s hopes all concentrated on the advent of that political Messiah who was not to come in truth till our own day?
36479	But what did this involve?
36479	Can we wonder that sometimes the lonely exile felt as if his own sorrow- laden heart were the sole refuge upon earth of love and temperance?
36479	Could he save them, as he was saved, from the meanness, from the blindness, from the delusions of the life they led?
36479	Could he show others what he himself had seen?
36479	How could he have followed the false semblances of good that never hold their word?
36479	How then could a poor mortal hope to scan the ways of God?
36479	How was it possible that he should have let all the richness of his life run wild?
36479	How would pope and cardinal and monarch brook to be told by the powerless exile what he had heard from souls in Heaven, in Purgatory, and in Hell?
36479	If I stay, who shall go?''
36479	Is his portrayal of the true conditions of blessedness as antiquated as his philosophy, his religion as strange to modern thought as his theology?
36479	Is this what innocence well known to all, is this what the heavy toil of unbroken study, has deserved?
36479	Might he not tame this wild but beauteous beast?
36479	Of what avail Justinian''s curb of law, with none to stride the saddle of command, except to shame thee more?
36479	Or has he still a power, wielded by no other poet, of taking us into the very presence of God and tuning our hearts to the harmonies of Heaven?
36479	Or in the depth of counsel dost Thou work for some good end, clean cut off from our ken?
36479	Their answer is essentially the same as Paul''s:''Nay, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?''
36479	Was he to cry aloud to all the world that these loved ones were amongst the damned, instead of tenderly hiding their infirmities?
36479	What can stand between a man''s own conscience and his duty?
36479	What does justice demand with regard to such sin?
36479	What negligence and what delay is here?
36479	What new charm had those lower things of earth obtained to draw him to them?
36479	What obstacle had baffled or appalled him?
36479	What wonder if men glory in it here?
36479	When could he, when could his Italy, rise from this chaos and be at peace?
36479	When would the Righteous One again be wroth, and purge His temple of the traffickers-- His temple walled by miracles and martyrdoms?
36479	Where is his fault in not believing?''
36479	Where is that justice which condemns him?
36479	Who can grudge him his rest?
36479	Who that has ever sinned and repented will accept for a moment such a thought?
36479	Why did not Dante''s heart in the very strength of that eternal love rebel against the hideous belief in eternal sin and punishment?
36479	Why had he deserted his first purposes?
36479	Will it have it washed out?
36479	Will it, in virtue of the sinner''s penitence, interpose between him and the wretched results and consequences of his deeds?
36479	[ 19] Did the exile''s hopes revive again at the Court of Verona?
36479	can I not gaze, wherever I may be, upon the spectacle of sun and stars?
36479	how did I shudder then, for he laid hold of me, and with the cry,"Haply thou knew''st not I was a logician?"
16978	''But tell me, ye who in this place are happy, Are you desirous of a higher place, To see more or to make yourselves more friends?'' 16978 ''Master,''I said,''what is so grievous to them which makes them complain so loud?''
16978	Didst thou behold, that old enchantress Who sole above us henceforth is lamented? 16978 The Guide therefore:''Now say, of the other sinners knowest thou any that is a Latian, beneath the pitch?''
16978	Weeping it cried out to me:''Why tramplest thou on me? 16978 What meant the spirit from Romagna by mentioning exclusion and partnership?"
16978	''Can you not help me, father?''
16978	''How,''said he, and meantime we met sturdily,''If ye are shades that God deigns not above, who hath escorted you so far by his stairs''?
16978	''Lord, have I not hated them that hate thee and pined away because of thy enemies?
16978	''Master,''I said,''are spirits those I hear?''
16978	''O Virgil, Virgil, who is this?''
16978	And I, whose head was hooded with horror, exclaimed:''Master, what is it I hear?
16978	And are ye here?
16978	And he:''O brother, what''s the use of climbing?
16978	And if I stay, who goes?"
16978	And if this greatest of charms so forsook thee at my death, what mortal thing should thereafter have led thee to desire it?
16978	And''She, where is she?''
16978	But where is Hell?
16978	Didst thou behold how man is free from her?
16978	Does Dante place the happiness of Heaven in the bliss and glorification of family reunion?
16978	Does not Dante by his own words show himself deep- dyed in hatred and cruelty?
16978	Hast thou then condescended to come to the mountain?''
16978	He shook his forehead; and,''How long,''he said,''Linger we now''?
16978	How will the poet bring home those incomprehensible truths to his readers?
16978	How will the poet, while still in the flesh, endure this vision of the Infinite, Incomprehensible Eternal God?
16978	I said:''What art thou who thus reproachest others?''
16978	If this thou feel not, what can make thee feel?
16978	If thou comest not to increase the vengeance for Montaperti, why dost thou molest me?''
16978	Is that because the poet thinks that if forgiveness is finally won by sorrow and suffering, expiation for the offence is still to be made?
16978	Is there not genuine pathos in these lines?
16978	May I conclude this chapter by giving you another view of Dante''s environment?
16978	Or has thy usual habit seized upon thee?''
16978	Remember thee, remember thee, if I Safe e''en on Geryon brought thee; now I come More near to God, wilt thou not trust me now?
16978	Say, what have they done?''
16978	The Church has never answered the question: Where is Heaven?
16978	The great Bishop of Hippo becomes the spokesman of humanity when he answers his own question by proposing another:"Am I immortal or not?"
16978	The question here presents itself: In what does Dante place the happiness of Heaven?
16978	The question now arises: Did Beatrice know of Dante''s love and did she reciprocate his passion?
16978	To me the Master good:''Thou dost not ask What spirits these may be, which thou beholdest?
16978	Waitest thou an escort?
16978	What feature is lacking?
16978	What is the meaning of this symbolic procession so common to Dante''s day, so alien to ours?
16978	What is the new marvel?
16978	What kind of people is it that seems so vanquished by grief?
16978	What manner of man then was he?
16978	What negligence, what standing still is this?
16978	When he had uncovered his great mouth, he said to his companions:''Have ye perceived that the one behind( Dante) moves what he touches?
16978	Where is his fault, if he do not believe?''"
16978	Who floats aloft your spirit high in air?
16978	Who is now concerned with the Ptolomaic system of astronomy, which is so often the subject of Dante''s thought?
16978	Will he not defeat his purpose by employing a symbol circumscribing Him who is beyond circumscription?"
16978	in what store thou heap''st New pains, new troubles, as I here beheld, Wherefore doth fault of ours bring us to this?
16978	why hast thou Dealt with us thus?
16978	you may exclaim,"will Dante be audacious enough to attempt to picture the Invisible Himself?
8509	But say, what was it? 8509 Is this then the glorious return of Dante Alighieri to his country after nearly three lustres of suffering and exile?
8509	Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the starry Cassiopeia''s chair; or this?
8509	What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature? 8509 [ 114] Did Dante believe himself to be one of these?
8509	[ 190] Who are they? 8509 [ 319] Is there any passage in any poet that so ripples and sparkles with simple delight as this?
8509	213, 214):"And the angel answered and said,''Wherefore dost thou weep?
8509	And doth not he depart from the use of reason who doth not reason out the object of his life?"
8509	And here is a passage which Milton had read and remembered:--"And is there care in Heaven?
8509	And of such a one some might say, how is he dead and yet goes about?
8509	And what proof does Mr. Masson bring to confirm his theory?
8509	And why is even_ hug''st_ worse than Shakespeare''s"_ Young''st_ follower of thy drum"?
8509	And why?
8509	Anselmuccio''s_ Tu guardi si, padre, che hai_?
8509	But does the dislike of the double sibilant account for the dropping of the_ s_ in these cases?
8509	But how if it bore us, which after all is the fatal question?
8509	But how is it about Milton himself?
8509	But is not the_ riliero_ precisely the bridge by which the one art passes over into the territory of the other?
8509	But undervalued by whom?
8509	But what Scripture?
8509	But what does Mr. Masson mean by"continuous"?
8509	But what gives motion to the crystalline heaven( moral philosophy) itself?
8509	But who can doubt that he read with a bitter exultation, and applied to himself passages like these which follow?
8509	Can I not everywhere behold the mirrors of the sun and stars?
8509	Can these dry bones live?
8509	Could not the Muse defend her son?
8509	Did Milton write_ shoals_?
8509	Did an innocence, patent to all, merit this?--this, the perpetual sweat and toil of study?
8509	For example, does Hall profess to have traced Milton from the University to a"suburb sink"of London?
8509	For example, what profits a discussion of Milton''s[ Greek: hapax legomena], a matter in which accident is far more influential than choice?
8509	For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word:--"And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue?
8509	Has Mr. Masson made him alive to us again?
8509	How could one do that for a tomb or the framework over it?
8509	How do such words differ from_ hilltop, townend, candlelight, rushlight, cityman_, and the like, where no double_ s_ can be made the scapegoat?
8509	If he ever wished to we d the real Beatrice Portinari, and was disappointed, might not this be the time when his thoughts took that direction?
8509	If so, did she live near Oxford?"
8509	Is an adjective, then, at the base of_ growth_,_ earth_,_ birth_,_ truth_, and other words of this kind?
8509	Is it a world that ever was, or shall be, or can be, or but a delusion?
8509	Is it because they feel themselves incapable of the one and not of the other?
8509	Is it his feeling?
8509	Is it his thought?
8509	Is the first half of these words a possessive?
8509	Is there another life?
8509	It is but another way of spelling_ sheen_, and if Mr. Masson never heard a shoeblack in the street say,"Shall I give you a shine, sir?"
8509	It is the tradition that he said in setting forth:"If I go, who remains?
8509	Know''st thou not that my rising is thy fall, And my promotion thy destruction?"
8509	Lord Burleigh was of this way of thinking, undoubtedly, but how could poor Clarion help it?
8509	Might he, too, deserve from posterity the love and reverence which he paid to those antique glories?
8509	Mr. Masson forthwith breaks forth in a paroxysm of what we suppose to be picturesqueness in this wise:"What have we here?
8509	My dear Brown, what am I to do?
8509	O, think ye not my heart was sair When my love dropt down and spake na mair?"
8509	Or is it Mr. Masson who has scotched Time''s wheels?
8509	Or is it not rather a noun impressed into the service as an adjective?
8509	Or stubborn spirit doomed to yell, In solitary ward or cell, Ten thousand miles from all his brethren?"
8509	Perhaps we should read"lost"?
8509	Shall I awake and find all this a dream?
8509	Spenser, in one of his letters to Harvey, had said,"Why, a God''s name, may not we, as else the Greeks, have the kingdom of our own language?"
8509	Suppose that even in the latter she signified Theology, or at least some influence that turned his thoughts to God?
8509	Surely he does not mean to imply that these are peculiar to Milton?
8509	Swiftly the politic goes: is it dark?
8509	The City Artillery Ground was near.... Did Milton among others make a habit of going there of mornings?
8509	The one unto the other did say, Where shall we gang dine to- day?
8509	The very greatest poets( and is there, after all, more than one of them?)
8509	The walls were hung round with family pictures, and I said to my brother,''Dare you strike your whip through that old lady''s petticoat?''
8509	There is, then, some hope for the man born on the bank of Indus who has never heard of Christ?
8509	To reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye?
8509	Was there already any young maiden in whose bosom, had such an advertisement come in her way, it would have raised a conscious flutter?
8509	Were I in health it would make me ill, and how can I bear it in my state?
8509	What practical man ever left such an heirloom to his countrymen as the"Faery Queen"?
8509	What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with accents that are ours?"
8509	When did his soul catch a glimpse of that certainty in which"the mind that museth upon many things"can find assured rest?
8509	Where can I look for consolation or ease?
8509	Who can help it?
8509	Who else could have written such English as many passages in this Epistle?
8509	Who would prefer the plain time of day to this?
8509	Why did he not say at once, after the good old fashion, that she"set her ten commandments in his face"?
8509	Why hath he me abhorred?
8509	Why more unusual than"As being the contrary to his high will"?
8509	Why_ curly_?
8509	Worse than all, does not his brush linger more lovingly along the rosy contours of his sirens than on the modest wimples of the Wise Virgins?
8509	Would he have us feel the brightness of an angel?
8509	Would it not rather have been surprising that they should not?
8509	[ 182] But how to put this theory of his into a poetic form which might charm while it was teaching?
8509	[ 244] But were they altogether without hope?
8509	[ 259] For example, Cavalcanti''s_ Come dicesti egli ebbe_?
8509	[ 301] Was not this picture painted by Paul Veronese, for example?
8509	[ 37] If these be not the words of Dante, what is internal evidence worth?
8509	[ 383] Should we refuse to say_ obleeged_ with Pope because the fashion has changed?
8509	and did baptism mean an immersion of the body or a purification of the soul?
8509	and if I stay, who goes?"
8509	and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move?
8509	art thou more merciful than God?''
8509	speculate on sweetest truths under any sky without first giving myself up inglorious, nay, ignominious, to the populace and city of Florence?
8509	to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores?