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...Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about it. He, Gorgona, Titian, and Tintoretto, are the illumination of Venetian...
...soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations that have thrilled the world for so many centuries. All through the Gospels this strength shines out again and again. The power is vast through His long temptation and in His ministry, carried on without any of the pomp that might have seemed indespensable among the turbusence and distraction of men's minds when He appeared. His words were simple but at the same time showed when they were they were gentlest a reserve of strength that astonished his hearers. But there were times when this strength broke...
Yesterday was celebrated with great pomp and general rejoicing the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the city of New Haven. The governor, members of the State Legislature, and other civic dignitaries thronged the streets during the day. Nearly every male inhabitant who has the use of his legs took part in the procession so that the line was hours in passing. Laborers of all descriptions were given a holiday, and in honor of the occasion all Yale men were released from their duties. The old citizens were in great requisition to recount the memories of their earlier days...
Thus Cardinal Newman upon the clerical pomps and vanities at Oxford: "I can not bear the pomp and pretense which I see everywhere. I am not speaking against individuals, but I speak of the system. There are ministers of Christ with large incomes, living in finely furnished houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white...
Among the most curious of the fantastic celebrations, burials and burnings which college undergraduates are wont to disport themselves with after the completion of some dreaded course in the curriculum, none is more worthy of notice than the "Burial of Legendre" which the Columbia sophomores perform annually with great pomp and circumstance. Not one of the least peculiar circumstances connected with the burial is the fact that it takes place in the great city of New York amid the bustle and hurry of Metropolitan life, while the people look on and wonder at the strange doings of the jolly...