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distrust: whatever the wishes of the mind, I love to train, to ripen their minds—to unfold
the animal frame was
heir hidden passions,
them; the wiry
tuit to my taste. I
broad chest, the
•lude and ripened courte-
gaunt arms, which
'Ind unconscious prQg.
elbow, betokened a i
:sire that I find the
great; active exertion
is thus that I defy
Calenus," said the
. plating the freshness
cinatin« Ramen, you have improved the of others, I sustain the freshness of my own
voice of the statue much by attending to my sensations. From the young hearts of my
suggestion; and your verses are excellent. victims I draw the ingredients of the caldron
Always prophesy good fortune, unless there in which I re-youth myself. But enough of
is an absolute impossibility
HAVE
t before us. You know,
Besides," added
_il)ulis some time since I eti-
does come, and if it doe
and Apæcides, brother and
accursed ships, have we
n Of Athenians had
and are the bnrks not bles•
t,polis. The death of their
for rest prays the mariner
- and esteemed me, consti-
or at least so says Horace;-
•dian. I was not unmind-
be more at rest in the sea than when he is aL
of the trust. The youth, docile and mild,
the bottom of it ? "
yielded Jeadily to the impression I sought to
Right, my Calemts; I wish Apæcides stamp upon him. Next to woman, 1 love the
would take a lesson from your wisdom. But old recollections of my ancestral land; I love
I desire to confer with yu
'agate on distant shores
and to other matters: yon
: ic•s perchance yet people),
one of your less sacred apa
tic creeds. It may be that
Assuredly," replied
cle mankind, while I thus
the way to one of the smal
To Apæcides I taught the
surrounded the open gate.
I unfolded to him
themselves l:efore a small
Liblime allegories which
dishes containing fruit and eggs, and various are couched beneath her worship. I excited
cold meats, with vases of excellent wine, of in a soul peculiarly alive to religious fervor
which while the companions partook, a cur-
that enthusiasm which imagination begets on
tain, drawn across the cntrance opening to faith.
I have placed him amongst you: he
the court, concealed them fro:
FUN
admonished them by the thinnes
said Calenus: but in thus
tition to speak low, or to speak
faith, you have robbed him
they chose the former
Ile is horror-struck that he is
T hotl said Arbace
:ped; our sage delusions, our
thav scarcely stirred the air, so
and secret staircases, dis-
ward was its sound, that it ha
Olt him; he pines; he wastes
my maxim to attach myself to the young.
From their flexile and unformed minds I can
carve out my fittest tools. I weave—I warp
—I mould them at my will. Of the men I
make merely
Of the
away; he mutters to himself; he refuses to
share our ceremonies. He has been known
to frequent the company of men suspected
of adherence to that new and atheistical creed
women
Mistresses
distorted his
"Yes, I
main object, tll._
As you feed the
love to rear the
a livid grin
sJL1ise it; woman
htt appetite, of my sty
for the slaughter.
ries of my pleasure.
which denies all on;'
oracles the insp-
spirit of which e:e.
oracles
me
is what I feared,"
i', from various repro:
•n I last saw him.
and terms our
'"alevolent
ks. Our
I nsptra-
A rbaces,
_•s he made
.te he hath
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