The Council of Trent remains the principal monument of the Catholic Revival, and that Revival is certainly the most important event for Italy in the period immediately following the Renaissance.
A greatevent in his life was a trip to Rome with Donatello; there the two examined all the classical remains in the city and in the country round about, taking measurements and learning all they could.
Their first flight was an event in my life as well as in theirs; for the interests of kindred are scarcely stronger than those which we take in the single living thing, however mean, whose feelings we can make our own.
If an attachment is fortunate, it is to be supposed that theevent will soon publish it; if not, the confession is a degradation to which no human being has a right to subject another.
I entreated that the anxiety of the parents might not be aggravated by a knowledge of this circumstance; and undertook myself to watch the event of the critical hour.
At that time it became infested with a lawless band of depredators, whose fortunes had been rendered desperate by the event of 1745, and whose habits had become incompatible with a life of sobriety and honesty.
No sooner had I acquiesced in the arrangements for that event which was to seal my destiny, than a confused feeling of regret came upon me.
This must appear an event in the highest degree interesting, not only to the Artist, but to the whole nation.
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.
We could never for a moment believe anevent of that kind as likely to happen.
What is most feared at such moments of susceptibility is the destruction of credit; and if any grave failure or bad eventhappens at such moments, the public fancy seizes on it, there is a general run, and credit is suspended.
Any sudden eventwhich creates a great demand for actual cash may cause, and will tend to cause, a panic in a country where cash is much economised, and where debts payable on demand are large.
Such an event would have something like the effect of the failure of Overend, Gurney and Co.
After informing him of her marriage, and of the birth and whereabouts of her child, she confided to his care certain important documents, to be sent, in the event of her death, to her family in America.
Shortly before Margaret's arrival this event had been celebrated by a grand public festival, preceded by a general reconciliation of public and private differences, and culminating in a general embracing, and exchanging of banners.
The most important public event of the winter in Rome seems to have been the inauguration of a new Council, with some show of popular election, said to have been on the whole satisfactory.
As Margaret gave much time and thought to art matters, and as the Allston exhibition was really an event of historic interest, some consideration of this paper will not be inappropriate in this place.
In the 'flush times' of steamboating, a race between two notoriously fleet steamers was an event of vast importance.
Chapter 46 Enchantments and Enchanters THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to sample--the Mardi-Gras festivities.
No event of this kind has been witnessed since man began to record his experiences.
The great geographical event of the century, as regards that continent, was the measurement of an arc of the meridian.
This great eventwas preceded by the general utilization in Europe of the polarity of the magnetic needle in the construction of the mariner's compass.
A devoted Parisian, Mme Geoffrin rarely left the city, so that her journey to Poland in 1766 to visit the king, Stanislas Poniatowski, whom she had known in his early days in Paris, was a great event in her life.
It must come on the demise of Louis Philippe, which event cannot be long delayed, and it may be precipitated before.
There was always some subject for conversation, some startling event continually occurring to form a theme for discussion.
After we had congratulated her, we inquired how soon the event was to take place.
But an event soon occurred which caused the Ruby Seal to sink into comparative insignificance.
Hephzibah Malling had gathered her friends together, and all had driven over for the happy event amidst the wildest enthusiasm and excited anticipation.
To journey to Winnipeg, a distance of a hundred and twenty-six miles, was anevent which required two days' preparation and as many weeks of consideration.
An event was about to happen which disturbed her to a degree.
It was a more significant event in her life even than when she went into Winnipeg to choose the monument which was to be erected over the grave of her departed Silas.
This event directly led to the conquest of Canada.
Perhaps the most stirring event of his life was his imprisonment on the suspicion of a design to restore the Stuart dynasty, the story of which is as follows.
We shall conclude these pages by again referring to our theory of the weather, in connection with an event which every friend of humanity and every lover of natural science is bound deeply to deplore.
For there on that spot an event had just occurred, which, take it altogether, was perhaps without a parallel in the history of mankind, and may remain so to the end of time.
He then took his aim with some deliberation, and the multitude awaited the event in breathless silence.
I was somewhat afflicted," he said, "to see the grief of the Queen of Love and Beauty, whose sovereignty of a day this event has changed into mourning.
Besides, the approach of two knights, for such their dress bespoke them, was a rare event at a Saxon solemnity, and could not but be regarded as a sort of honour to the deceased and his family.
Tremendous as these sounds were, and yet more terrible from the awful event which they presaged, there was a sublimity mixed with them, which Rebecca's high-toned mind could feel even in that moment of terror.
He paused for the night at a small hostelry lying out of the ordinary route, where, however, he obtained from a wandering minstrel news of the event of the tourney.
The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility, by the event of the battle of Hastings, and it had been used, as our histories assure us, with no moderate hand.
For a time she was so dazed, so emotionally exhausted by the event of the last hour, that she stood on, fixed, unseeing, one hand pressed against her side as if she stopped with it the mouth of a wound.
About this time an event happened which changed his whole life.
This visit to New Orleans was a great event in his life.
Toward the close of his five years' service a great event happened.
The next important event in the history of the Lincoln family was their removal from Indiana to Illinois in 1830.
There the first great event in his life took place.
I shall first detail the circumstances under which this singular event took place; afterwards attempt to give some idea of the effects produced by it on the multitude.
The latter, immediately after the battle, was promoted to the situation which he had so ardently desired; but his enjoyment of it was long and visibly embittered by the recollection of the event to which he owed his appointment.
The idea so current in France, that this event will only occasion a civil war, is unworthy of a moment's attention.
At this time there also occurred important changes in the calendar system, an event symbolized in the Chronicles by the phrase "Pop was set in order.
According to Chronicle V the use of the name Itza dates from the founding of Chichen Itza, an event which took place about 510.
There are numerous hints of their formidableness during this period, and the event of which we shall soon learn shows that they were not without a certain grim humor.
A wonderful event which I relate for the greater confusion of me and my audacity and for the greater glory of the humility and prompt obedience of my Father, San Diego.
To no one did the event give pleasure but to John Knox.
An event still more strange was produced by the spell of his presence,--the clansmen of Athol deserted their chief, and joined his standard.
He also took prominent part in the last charity ball, which is the social event of the season in this city.
The first distressfulevent came into Robert's life when, at the age of nine, some seven years after the family had moved from New Bloomfield to Huntingdon, on the Juniata River, his father died.
The eventof the trial came, however, when Peter summed up.
Spain was so sickly as to make his early death probable, was prepared to assert his wife's claim whenever that event took place.
As long as William lived he was to administer the government, Mary only attaining to actual power in the event of her surviving her husband.
The hatred is but exasperated; the glory is won by and for the dregs of mankind; the riches are in the most prosperous event swallowed up ten times over.
But the other great event of the same period, the invention and diffusion of the art of printing, had created a new European commonwealth of the mind.
We should forfeit our policy in theevent of being lost or damaged.
So far, at least, I can insure your safety, my love, in theevent of anything happening to me before his return.
But what is the event ye allude to, freend, and what is't ye propose to do in this matter that'll produce the effect ye speak o'?
The confusion which followed this sudden and as yet unexpected event drowned for a time the effect resulting from the extraordinary exclamation.
The night terminated, as it usually did with those boon companions, in a deep debauch; but it was ultimately marked by an event for which the reader will be as little prepared as Wellwood was.
These successes seemed to promise a more happy eventthan that which followed them.
Having been unsuccessful in his attempt by open force, he made use of the arts of negotiation, but with an event not more to his satisfaction.
The event was not agreeable to the happy beginning of our negotiation, for we soon began to find that our habitation was not likely to be very pleasant.
