Priests, women and families. A new tr., with additional notes, and the third preface, ed. by J. Crookes1846 |
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Strona 47 - Such is the first word ; such is the literal copy. The authority is accepted as infinite and absolute, without any bargaining as to measure. "'But you tremble ; you dare not tell this terrible God your weakness and childishness : well, tell them to your father ; a father has a right to know the secrets of his...
Strona 10 - Punchinello. It is strange, that the author of Telemachus and the frigid loves of Eucharis, should have said in his " Maxims of Saints," after the blessed Francis de Sales, — " I have scarcely any desires ; but, were I to be born again, I should not have any at all. If God came to me, I would also go to him ; if it were not his will to come to me, I would stay where I was, and not go to him.
Strona 47 - And this man now knows of this woman what the husband has not known in all the long effusion of his heart by day and night, what even her own mother does not know, who thinks she knows her entirely, having had her so many times a naked infant upon her knees. "This man knows, and will know — don't be afraid of his forgetting it.
Strona 51 - EL mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Che la diritta via era smarrita; E quanto a dir qual...
Strona 59 - Let it wallow through the mire (says another) ; what matters it to the soul which stands aloft pure and sublime, and deigns not to look down ?" Then comes the worst refinement of the Quietists — " If the inferior part do not sin, the superior becomes uplifted, which is the greatest of all sins; therefore the flesh must sin to preserve this humility of the soul : as sin produces this humility, it becomes a ladder to ascend to heaven.
Strona 58 - ... severity. His humble Griselda recognised in him the right of the paternal rod. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, knew him by this token for her lord and husband. Who has this right in our age ? The husband has not preserved it — the priest has it and uses it: he ever holds over woman the rod of authority ; he beats her submissive and docile with spiritual rods. But he who can punish, can also pardon; the only one who can be severe, he alone has also what with a...
Strona 10 - ... to calm her sufferings: time, while wearing her away, brought no relief to her internal struggle. On her death-bed she makes this avowal : " All that I have suffered in the whole course of my life is not to be compared with the torments which I now endure : I am reduced to such a miserable state, that nothing can give me ease ; my only hope of consolation is comprised in one single word — Death.
Strona 59 - The poor and secluded monks were dangerous confessors ; those monks who enjoyed greater liberty, and the secular priests, scarcely ever had recourse to the dangerous means of the confessional, because they found better opportunities elsewhere. Those who in their directorial capacity see women alone at their own houses, need not be at the trouble of corrupting them at the altar.
Strona 56 - We were just now speaking of influence, dominion, and royalty ; but is not this greater than any royalty ? It is divinity ; it is being the god of another. If there be in this world a situation liable to create insanity, it is this ; for the secret thought of him who has attained to this giddy height, however great his semblance of humility, must naturally be that of the pagan...
Strona viii - It is in truth my woman-nature which rouses sympathy for past ages, that tender remembrance of all that exists no more. What then, advanced as I am in life, can I give her in return for all I owe her ? One thing for which she would have thanked me — this appeal for women and for mothers.