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...clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures, Hoffmann revels in the sweetness and sensitivity of kind and imaginative children. His careful touch in relating the wonders of things as majestic as first love is something akin to a perfectly crafted music...
...Roman Catholic formula: "May our Lord Jesus Christ absolve thee; and I, by His authority, absolve thee . . . inasmuch as in my power lieth, and thou standest in need. Finally, I absolve thee from thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen...
...past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain of the Lord's host spoke unto Joshua: 'Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy.'" When the joint session adjourned, the Legislature passed a bill permitting it to sit once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair...
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