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Article EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. ← Page 2 of 4 →
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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
MATERNAL AFFECTION . WHAT pen can describe all the emotions of joy and sorrow which at times agitate a mother ' s bosom ; the tender solicitudes for the object of her affection ; her alarms and dread , when in danger of losing it ; and her despair , when it is gone for ever ? A noble Venetian lady , having lost her only son , became a prey fo excessive confessor
grief . Her endeavoured to console her ; he told her to think of Abraham , whom the Almighty commanded to sacrifice his son , and which he obeyed without murmuring . ' Ah ! my father , ' she replied , with much vehemence , ' God would never havs commanded such a sacrifice to a mother , ' COURT ETIQUETTE .
( From Bielfeld ' s Political Institutes . J THE etiquette ( or rules to be observed in the royal palaces ) is necessary for keeping order at court . In Spain it was carried such lengths as to make martyrs of the kings . Philip III . being gravely seated by a chimney , where the fire-maker of the court had kindled so great a quality of woodthat the monarch had like to have been
, suffocated with heat , his grandeur would not suffer him to rise from the chair , to call for help : the officers in waiting were not within call , and the domestics could not presume to enter the apartment , became it was against the etiquette . At last , the Marquis de Pobat appeared , and the king ordered him to damp the fire ; but he excused himself ) ailedingthat he was forbidden bthe etiquette to perform
g , y such a function , for which the Duke d'Usseda ought to be called upon , as it was his business . The duke was gone out , the fire burned fiercer , and the king endured it , rather than derogate from his dignity : but his blood was heated to such a degree , that an erysipelas broke out in his head the next day , which , being succeeded by a Violent fever , carried him off in 1621 , and in the 24 th year of his age .
SPANISH PRIDE . IN Rome it is common to see an innumerable quantity of poor persons of all nations , to whom , at certain hours , some of the monasteries give soup daily . A Castilian , who had just arrived , and did not know at what time the distribution was made , applied to a French ecclesiastic for information . The vanity of the Spaniard would not permit him to ask
plainly at whose house they gave the soup ; it was a species of question that appeared too mean . After endeavouring , for some time , to find a mode of expression not quite so low , he thought it was better to ask the Frenchman , if he had taken his chocolate ? ' My chocolate ! ' replied the ecclesiastic , ' how do you suppose I am to pay for it ? I live on charity , and am waiting for the distribution of the soup
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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
MATERNAL AFFECTION . WHAT pen can describe all the emotions of joy and sorrow which at times agitate a mother ' s bosom ; the tender solicitudes for the object of her affection ; her alarms and dread , when in danger of losing it ; and her despair , when it is gone for ever ? A noble Venetian lady , having lost her only son , became a prey fo excessive confessor
grief . Her endeavoured to console her ; he told her to think of Abraham , whom the Almighty commanded to sacrifice his son , and which he obeyed without murmuring . ' Ah ! my father , ' she replied , with much vehemence , ' God would never havs commanded such a sacrifice to a mother , ' COURT ETIQUETTE .
( From Bielfeld ' s Political Institutes . J THE etiquette ( or rules to be observed in the royal palaces ) is necessary for keeping order at court . In Spain it was carried such lengths as to make martyrs of the kings . Philip III . being gravely seated by a chimney , where the fire-maker of the court had kindled so great a quality of woodthat the monarch had like to have been
, suffocated with heat , his grandeur would not suffer him to rise from the chair , to call for help : the officers in waiting were not within call , and the domestics could not presume to enter the apartment , became it was against the etiquette . At last , the Marquis de Pobat appeared , and the king ordered him to damp the fire ; but he excused himself ) ailedingthat he was forbidden bthe etiquette to perform
g , y such a function , for which the Duke d'Usseda ought to be called upon , as it was his business . The duke was gone out , the fire burned fiercer , and the king endured it , rather than derogate from his dignity : but his blood was heated to such a degree , that an erysipelas broke out in his head the next day , which , being succeeded by a Violent fever , carried him off in 1621 , and in the 24 th year of his age .
SPANISH PRIDE . IN Rome it is common to see an innumerable quantity of poor persons of all nations , to whom , at certain hours , some of the monasteries give soup daily . A Castilian , who had just arrived , and did not know at what time the distribution was made , applied to a French ecclesiastic for information . The vanity of the Spaniard would not permit him to ask
plainly at whose house they gave the soup ; it was a species of question that appeared too mean . After endeavouring , for some time , to find a mode of expression not quite so low , he thought it was better to ask the Frenchman , if he had taken his chocolate ? ' My chocolate ! ' replied the ecclesiastic , ' how do you suppose I am to pay for it ? I live on charity , and am waiting for the distribution of the soup