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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
ost all the students had their copies of the Corpus Juris resting on their knees, and followed the professor as he read, besides taking notes of his exposition. Pellat I have met at the Baron de Gerando's. He is apparently about forty or forty-five, and is modest in his manner. He did not produce the impression of remarkable talent. After Pellat, I heard, at the Sorbonne, a part of the lecture of Geruzez Nicolas Eugene Geruzez, 1799-1865. He was, from 1833 to 1852, the substitute of Villemain in the chair of Literature. His writings related mostly to the history of literature and eloquence. on some French author,—I could not catch the name; and after this, at the École de Droit, heard Ducaurroy, on the Institutes. I have already spoken of his manner. He was more animated than Pellat; he had his copy of the Institutes before him, and read and expounded. From the scene of lectures I went to the Musee d'artillerie, which in one respect corresponds to the Tower of London. H
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
rom a very superficial acquaintance, and that only with the Inferno, probably from Rivarol's version. Genie du Christianisme, Cap. IV. Since then there have been four or five French versions in prose or verse, including one by Lamennais. But the austerity of Dante will not condescend to the conventional elegance which makes the charm of French, and the most virile of poets cannot be adequately rendered in the most feminine of languages. Yet in the works of Fauriel, Ozanam, Ampere, and Villemain, France has given a greater impulse to the study of Dante than any other country except Germany. Into Germany the Commedia penetrated later. How utterly Dante was unknown there in the sixteenth century is plain from a passage in the Vanity of the Arts and Sciences of Cornelius Agrippa, where he is spoken of among the authors of lascivious stories: There have been many of these historical pandars, of which some of obscure fame, as Aeneas Sylvius, Dantes, and Petrarch, Boccace, Pontanus,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
Italy. The pope of the day, who was his dependent and his beneficiary, made to him the sign of adora- Chap. II.} tion. Dollinger, Das Kaiserthum Karls des Grossen und seiner Nachfolger in Munchener Historisches Jahrbuch fur 1865, 364. The old Roman emperor was the highest pontiff: with the charge of universal monarchy, Charlemagne, who held the keys of the grave of St. Peter, took to himself the supreme direction of the church. Von Sybel, Deutsche Nation und das Kaiserreich, 60. Villemain, Histoire de Gregoire VII., un maitre qui dominai't également et laeglise et le monde, i. 140. Orthodox Christendom saw in this new Roman empire the eternal ordinance of God which was to endure to the end of time, so that every prophecy might be fulfilled and Christ become the lord of the whole earth. Leo the Third recognised in him the sovereignty over every temporal authority; but the line of the emperors was hardly acknowledged at Rome to be by a fixed rule entitled evermore to unq