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The Dean And The Magician;
caitiff ! ^ AVhen 1 sought lessons from you , it was only to fathom the abyss of your crimes , that I might make you undergo punishment in proportion to their enormity ; nevertheless , in compassion for your years , I will not make an example of you , but solel y on condition that you quit my sight for ever . Go , conceal where you can , your shame and guilt ; and if , on the lapse of an hour , you are found within the walls of the palace , the gates of the Inquisition shall close on you for ever !
Trembling , his wrinkled cheeks channeled with tears , Don Illan implored permission to add but a word . " I am very poor , Holy Father ; rel ying on your patronage , I have given up all my prospects , and have not as much left as will carry me back to Spain . " " Begone , I say , " was his Holiness ' s answer , "if rr . y excess of bounty has allowed you to live in idleness , I shall no longer continue to indulge your negligence and prodigality . Poverty is but a light punishment compared with what you merit . "
" But , Holy Father , " said Don Illan , " my wants demand prompt succour ; I am starving ; give me in charity some money to buy tonight ' s supper ; to-morrow I depart—a beggar . " " Heaven keep me , " said the Pope , "from the sin of furnishing aid to the ally of the prince of darkness . Begone , —quit my presence , or I shall call in my guards . " " Well , then , " replied Don Illan , rising , and fixing a furious look on
the Pope , " sooner than perish of famine at Rome , I will go baek to my supper at Toledo . " Whilst he spoke he sounded a bell which was on the table beside his Holiness . The door speedily opened , and the little Moorish girl appeared . The Pope , looking round , found himself again in the subterraneous chamber washed by the Tagus .
" Tell the cook / ' said Don Ulan , " to put down only one of the partridges ; I am not such a fool as to give the other to the Dean of Santiago . " ALCIPHRON .
How TO KNOW A coon BOOK . —That book does not deserve to be read which does not impose upon us the duty of frequent pauses , much reflecting , and inward debate ; or require that we should often go back , compare one observation and statement with another , and does not call upon us to combine and knit together the disjecta membra . It is an observation which has often been repeatedthatwhen we come to read
, , an excellent author a second and a third time , we find in him a multitude of things that we did not in the slightest degree perceive in the first reading . A careful first reading ivould have a tendency , in a considerable degree , to anticipate the following ctop . : ; " * There is a doggrel couplet , which I have met with in a book on elocution : — " I . earn to speak slow : all other graces Will follow i . i their proper places . " '
I could wish to recommend a similar process to the student in the course of his reading . —Godtcin ' s Thoughts mi Man . VOL . iv . 3 Q
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The Dean And The Magician;
caitiff ! ^ AVhen 1 sought lessons from you , it was only to fathom the abyss of your crimes , that I might make you undergo punishment in proportion to their enormity ; nevertheless , in compassion for your years , I will not make an example of you , but solel y on condition that you quit my sight for ever . Go , conceal where you can , your shame and guilt ; and if , on the lapse of an hour , you are found within the walls of the palace , the gates of the Inquisition shall close on you for ever !
Trembling , his wrinkled cheeks channeled with tears , Don Illan implored permission to add but a word . " I am very poor , Holy Father ; rel ying on your patronage , I have given up all my prospects , and have not as much left as will carry me back to Spain . " " Begone , I say , " was his Holiness ' s answer , "if rr . y excess of bounty has allowed you to live in idleness , I shall no longer continue to indulge your negligence and prodigality . Poverty is but a light punishment compared with what you merit . "
" But , Holy Father , " said Don Illan , " my wants demand prompt succour ; I am starving ; give me in charity some money to buy tonight ' s supper ; to-morrow I depart—a beggar . " " Heaven keep me , " said the Pope , "from the sin of furnishing aid to the ally of the prince of darkness . Begone , —quit my presence , or I shall call in my guards . " " Well , then , " replied Don Illan , rising , and fixing a furious look on
the Pope , " sooner than perish of famine at Rome , I will go baek to my supper at Toledo . " Whilst he spoke he sounded a bell which was on the table beside his Holiness . The door speedily opened , and the little Moorish girl appeared . The Pope , looking round , found himself again in the subterraneous chamber washed by the Tagus .
" Tell the cook / ' said Don Ulan , " to put down only one of the partridges ; I am not such a fool as to give the other to the Dean of Santiago . " ALCIPHRON .
How TO KNOW A coon BOOK . —That book does not deserve to be read which does not impose upon us the duty of frequent pauses , much reflecting , and inward debate ; or require that we should often go back , compare one observation and statement with another , and does not call upon us to combine and knit together the disjecta membra . It is an observation which has often been repeatedthatwhen we come to read
, , an excellent author a second and a third time , we find in him a multitude of things that we did not in the slightest degree perceive in the first reading . A careful first reading ivould have a tendency , in a considerable degree , to anticipate the following ctop . : ; " * There is a doggrel couplet , which I have met with in a book on elocution : — " I . earn to speak slow : all other graces Will follow i . i their proper places . " '
I could wish to recommend a similar process to the student in the course of his reading . —Godtcin ' s Thoughts mi Man . VOL . iv . 3 Q