Many of his comments on current events are preserved in the notes or in the memories of his friends.
The namepreserved all its prestige, but did not delegate it.
His answer is said to have been, that those who saw the first French Revolution, and who lived through this crisis, would bless God for having preserved them to be witnesses of the great triumph of His Church.
By this time a large portion of the company, oppressed by the heat, had unmasked, but he knew none of the faces he saw around him, whilst of those who had preserved their vizards he could fix on none as object of suspicion.
Still some works are preserved which give us an insight into their tendencies.
Many sects existed in it from the earliest times[60] four of which preserved the title of orthodox.
Although Avicenna's reputation in the Muhammedan world has always been high, his mystical treatises have generally been regarded as heretical, and many have only been preserved in Hebrew translations.
We do not know if the impression he made on his contemporaries was as great as the zeal with which he pleads the cause of mysticism, but up to the present day his memory is religiously preserved at Cairo, where a mosque still bears his name.
Of the last Suyuti haspreserved a psychologically detailed description.
Suhrawardy's writings werepreserved from entire destruction by the Persians and Turks.
His tomb is still preserved in Aleppo, where the memory of him as "the murdered Suhrawardy" has by no means faded.
While thus engaged, I came in contact with active Intelligence (the old man), the salutary effects of which I had long experienced and which had preserved my vigour unabated.
A complete history of the business was recently placed in my hands,--a history partly compiled from old documents, and partly from traditions preserved in the families of several noted insect-merchants of the present day.
Fearful on the brink of an ecstatic bliss, she could scarcely believe that from the enticements of a thousand woman this paragon had been preserved for her.
Many round-games, which invariably comprised singing or kissing, being thus annually resuscitated by elderly people from the deeps of memory, were preserved for a posterity which otherwise would never have known them.
Of all which were preserved delineations in the temple of Belus at Babylon.
Thus was this beautiful and unique specimen of Transitional Norman architecture preserved to us.
Some portions of the inner coffin, with the stole, two maniples, the girdle and bracelets and fragments of the robes are now carefully preservedin the Dean and Chapter Library.
Whatever may be the truth of this, his body was placed in a wooden coffin, portions of which are still preserved in the chapter library at Durham.
The contracts (the first dated 1398) for building the cloister are still preserved in the treasury.
Some coins and a ring which were found at this time are preserved in the Dean and Chapter Library.
It was shortly afterwards found on the coast in a comparatively uninjured condition; and is now preserved in the British Museum.
By accident one town has been preserved to us in its entirety.
They still stand in ruins like the old castles, for repairs are no longer made; but enough is preserved to enable us to comprehend their former condition.
Many peoples of Italy, it was said, had originated in these colonies of emigrants and still preserved the name of the animal which had led their ancestors.
As they marry only among themselves, better than the other Hindoos they have preserved the Aryan type and have a clearer resemblance to Europeans.
Of these mountain bands the most renowned came from a little canton called Doris and preserved the name Dorians.
They have not been so well preserved as the bronze, as iron is rapidly eaten away by rust.
Tragedy and comedy preserved some traces of their origin.
It was in the basilicas that the assemblies of the Christians were later held, and for several centuries the Christian churches preserved the name and form of basilicas.
The law of citizens, derived from the superstitious and strict rules of the old Romans, had preserved from this rude origin troublesome formulas and barbarous regulations.
They preserved them from the evils that menaced them, sending signs which men interpreted.
When he reappeared on the tribune, he was master of his voice, and, as he preserved the habit of carefully preparing all his orations, he became the most finished and most potent orator of Greece.
It carefully preserved a collection of prophecies, the Sibylline Books.
Many works in Sanscrit are preserved from this time, which, with the Vedas, form the sacred literature of the Hindoos.
The fusion was so complete that we have preserved the custom of designating the Greek gods by their Latin names; we still call Artemis Diana, and Pallas Minerva.
Words fail to describe the horrors we have seen, and in the midst of which Providence has preserved us.
Southwestern Russia, or Galitch, had, more than any other section, preserved the old Slav character.
These ancient deities are preserved under the names of St. John, who displaced Perun; Voloss who became St. Vlaise, etc.
An interval of near three years here occurs in the Author's correspondence, during which he preserved only memoranda of the contents of the letters written by him.
The original of the above was in cipher; though, as in the case of most of the Author's letters in cipher, he prepared and preserved a literal copy of it.
Or, perhaps, some of the careful old people of Pennsylvania or New Jersey may have preserved a copy.
From the time of Canute to that of the Magna Charta, you know, the text of our statutes is preserved to us in Latin only, and some old French.
The same remarks are applicable to the Debates in the same Congress, preserved in the same manner, on two of the original Articles of Confederation.
Annexed to the several articles, are explanatory and other remarks of the Author, worthy of being preserved by the aid of the press.
At that time guilds and town councils wanted the portraits of their members preserved in some way, and it was the habit of painters like Holbein to form picturesque groups and give to such dramatic groupings the features of townsmen.
In the South Kensington Museum in London will be found carefully preserved a description, written out fairly in Leonardo's own hand, to guide him in painting the Last Supper.
Major Hartmann, whose self-possession had been admirably preserved during the whole evolution, was the first of the party that gained his feet and his voice.
A slight gesture with his spear indicated the way in which Leather-Stocking wished to go, and a profound silence waspreserved by the whole party, as the precaution necessary to the success of their fishery.
Considering the precious materials which their industry has preserved for us, we should rather admire these diligent and erudite authors than complain of their inability to break away from the established mode.
Pre-islamic poetry, therefore, was preserved by oral tradition alone, and the question arises, How was this possible?
The sayings of a¸¤asan which he cites are of the same character as those preserved in the KAimil.
Of the Annals, as it left the author's hands, no entire copy exists anywhere, but many odd volumes are preserved in different parts of the world.
So far as I am aware, the report that copies are preserved in the great mosque at Tunis has not been confirmed.
No complete copy of the work is known to exist, but considerable portions of it are preservedin the British Museum and in the Berlin Royal Library.
Poems and fragments of verse, which though not written down at the time were preserved by oral tradition and committed to writing, for the most part, two or three hundred years afterwards.
I have therefore selected from the copious material preserved in the Book of Songs a characteristic story which tells how Qays b.
The ancient spindle and loom of the East, singularly enough, are still preserved and used for special purposes in modern Rome, just as they were thirty or forty centuries ago.
She had still preserved the few gold pieces which Leonard had taken back to her on his first visit to Miss Starke's.
The sand from the desert has in great measure preserved the monument which has been so long abandoned to its fate.
We were shown a beautiful specimen of Siamese horns, which, on account of their extraordinary dimensions, had beenpreserved and polished.
The flesh tints, the red, the purple, and the white are well preserved in the copy.
Mr. Poletiss, therefore, whenever they jolted through ruts or brooks, held on to his hay hassock, and preserved his equilibrium as best he could.
Her gratitude, she considered, ought to be very great to one who had, at so great a venture, preserved her from so horrible a death.
After breakfast, which made another inroad on our preserved meats, we proceeded up the river in a light canoe, to visit the salt springs, leaving a party behind to attend the nets.
They assured us, however, of their being duly sensible of these tokens of our regard, and that they should be preserved during their lives with the utmost care.
It keeps in this state, if not allowed to get wet, very well for one year, and with great care it may be preserved good for two.
We saved the canoe, out of which two guns and a case of preservedmeats had been thrown into the rapid[17].
The wolf soon died of its wounds, and the body was brought to the house, where a drawing of it was taken by Mr. Hood, and the skin preserved by Dr.
The food was prepared by the chief's wife, and consisted of marrow pemmican, berries boiled with fat, and various other delicacies that had been preserved for the occasion.
These were examined in the evening, but to our mortification we obtained only four small trout, and were compelled to issue part of our preserved meats for supper.
The issue of dried meat for breakfast this morning had exhausted all our stock; and no other provision remained but the portable soups, and a few pounds of preserved meat.
The tree itself had been originally brought, it was said, from the country of the Hyperboreans, by Hercules, and planted in Olympia, where it was sacredly preserved to furnish garlands for the victors in the games.
Agrippina was greatly terrified, but she preserved some degree of outward composure, and raising herself in her bed, she looked steadily upon her assassins.
He had a knife, he said, which he had found in a certain temple a long time before, and which he had preserved and carried about his person constantly ever since, for some such deed.
The knife or dagger which Milichus had produced as the one by which Nero was to have been slain, was preserved as a sacred relic.
We give an extempore translation of this sonnet, in which the meaning is preserved so far as is possible where the grace is left out.
And since its being depends on God and is preserved thereby it naturally desires and wills to be united with God in order to fortify its being.
No more I did at that time, Cross; but when we are so wonderfully preserved, we cannot think but that we are preserved for better things; and as Providence has interfered, it points out to us that it is our duty to live.
A legend is still preserved in the valleys of Joux and Les Rousses, to the following effect.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, through the merits of her Divine Son, was preserved free from the guilt of original sin, and this privilege is called her Immaculate Conception.
All appears so human and real, so inspiringly animated by the extreme of vital motion, to use an oriental expression, the individuality of the figures being always preserved in minutest personal detail without the least affectation.
Sooltan Tingkir appointed one of his trusted servants, Kiahi Ageng Pamanahan, governor of the tract of land which had preserved the name of Mataram.
Sivaitic in aspect, however, as it stands now, it is the only one of the monuments in Kediri sufficiently preserved to determine its religious origin.
The name Mataram has been preserved on a copper plate, dating from about 900, which agrees in this respect with four other records, discovered in East Java; the capital of the Maharaja i Mataram is called Medang.
On the road to Toompang stands the chandi Kidal, one of the best preserved in Java, only the upper part of the roof having fallen down.
Many other manuscripts he left behind him, (as evidences of his indefatigable labour) which if yet preserved in safe custody, might be of no small benefit to the public, as it appears that they have not hitherto been published.
Shameful frauds were perpetrated in filling the contracts for preserved meats.
His name has been preserved likewise in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, the negro free state in Africa, which was founded under his auspices.
Napoleon called the rising sculptor to France, and he there executed the famous nude portrait of Napoleon now preserved in Milan.
One of the glories of Marilhat was that he preserved his originality in presence of Decamps.
Then France and Europe will be preserved from anarchy, obstacles will be removed, rivalries will have disappeared, for all will respect, in the decision of the People, the decree of Providence.
