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CHAPTER III.

THE ROAD OF STRANGERS.

P. 23, line 19. The nature of trees also, as of men, is greedy of

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newness and pilgrimage.

25, 1. For those are properly called nations which exhibit themselves such as nature has formed them, and are not distinguished from others by the character of circumcision or of baptism; but a people is an aggregation of men who have come together into one place in order to live under law.

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25. Of this thing all Latinity is witness.
27. Behold! the tongue of Britain, which knew nothing
else but to gnash barbarism, already has long
begun in the divine praises to resound the Hebrew
Alleluja.

31. That persons of different nations are regarded by

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each other as hardly men.

God ev'rywhere the nations

To bow the head has taught 'neath the same laws ;
A common right has made, and equals tied
With the same name, subject to brothers' bonds.
They're spread thro' ev'ry land, not otherwise
Than a paternal town closes its walls

On kindred citizens: distant spots are join'd
By hearths ancestral; and the shores, by sea
Divided, come together.

31. Because as it is natural that unity should be made
out of many, so it is faulty to decline the sweet-
ness of brotherhood.

41. Thou'st made one country of each diff'ring race:

Unconquer'd erst, they profit by thy yoke.

27, 1. Triumphant he in glory rides :

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The country of the soil and skies
Into one commonwealth he ties.

10. O thou who hast denied to none

Assistance asking, Poland's sons
And those without, request of thee
Thy fathers' realm from ills to free.

17. Direct us to that fatherland

To which our journeying footsteps tend.

33. I do not dread the powers worshipped here ;

For they've not fed, nor nursed me into age.

28, 35. Putting on that new man who is renewed unto

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knowledge, according to the image of Him who created him; where is not Gentile and Jew, Bar

barian and Scythian, but all and in all Christ.

P. 28, last line. When fatherland I've lost, then think me dead.

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O call ye to our Father's home.

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24. May He with life which knows no end
Invest us in our fatherland.

36. The devil is drawing him with worldly delight, for
too desirable is to him the land of his birth after
the worldly manner.

30, 5. It is good no one hear reports about his country

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more than he can help.

6. Thou hast not here an abiding citizenship, and wherever thou mayst be thou art a stranger and a pilgrim.

9. Wherever thou mayst sit, say constantly, I am a

pilgrim.

11. Know that thou art on pilgrimage in the world;

nor hast here a fatherland, but in heaven.

15. For one country rather than another he cared not.

17. A pilgrim neither rests in his own home, nor is sub

ject to the dominion of his own master.

20. The day of the pilgrimage of my life.

33. We must fly to the most illustrious fatherland, and

there is the Father, and there are all things.

37. That wholly he forget his fatherland.

31, 1. The brazen sky can ne'er be trod by them.

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9. Where they were nursed and born.

14. I know not by what sweetness natal soil

Leads all, nor suffers them it to forget.

18. The fatherland, as seems, men sweetest hold.

21. Hailing his paternal earth.

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but 'tis of force that all

Love fatherland: who otherwise pretends,

May say farewell, but yet his heart is there.

32. Sweet is't for fatherland to die.

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29. Into sweet France.

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18. To the men whom God loves He gives home and

subsistence in Seville.

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27. That they should chiefly care for the whole body of

the commonwealth; lest while they look to any part they neglect the rest.

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35. Without Gerardmer and in a small degree Nancy,

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P. 35, line 13. Countries by trees divided.

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22. Not because we hate our kindred and paternal fields

do we remove from them. Far be it!

O country's depth of hearth,

and race with me brought up,

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And founts, and rivers here!

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growth. (Cowper.)

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commodious ports,

Heaven - climbing rocks, and trees of amplest

28. On piety towards our fatherland.

29. Piety has satisfied the strictest bonds of blood: it

remains now to be shown to fatherland.

33. Catullus my fellow-countryman.

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citizens me justly hate:

Neighbours example dread. We've shut up th' orb

16. Ungrateful fatherland; not even my bones hast

thou!

18. And what of life was over, there without any long

ing after an ungrateful fatherland he spent.

25. Love of fatherland is in judgment

greatest, but love and conjunction of will certainly

has more sweetness.

33. Let praise to this Pelasgian town

Its tribute pay, nor longer own

Our hymns the streams of Nile.

39, 4. That it is patriotic before everything.

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20. For who can wisely be angry with the Roman

people?

27. But promises to teach much good, and make you

happy be,

Not flattering, nor holding bribes, nor practising deceit,

Nor hiding guilt, nor feeding it, but teaching what is best.

32. O God, who hast united the diversity of nations in confession of Thy name.

34. Christian people.

37. Better is brotherhood of Christ than brotherhood of blood: brotherhood of blood is sometimes un

friendly to itself, but Christ's brotherhood is without intermission peaceful.

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34. This the word that's dreadful now, and will our

heart the most disturb,

If thou'lt venture in behalf of th' enemy to us to speak.

41, 1. Greece then might e'en by Priam mourned be.

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P. 41, line 13. Unfriendly and envious the eye of neighbours.

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21. This was only a flash of anger on the part of this captain, who was fed with a biscuit made of iron and steel, among the waves and billows of the sea, and was accustomed to hear nothing softer than the wind.

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27. The Saxons' nature fierce and bosoms hard. 44, 38. That at once both to the Athenians and to the

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Platæans good things had happened. 45, 29. Namely, it is the custom of both nations, though they be hostile in their own regions, yet in distant parts as brothers to assist, and mutually observe inviolable fidelity.

last line. But it behoves us never to account it a small thing to appear, or not, to be good in the eyes of others.

46, 7. Having an anger of three days.

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11. This fault, inasmuch as it is more concealed, is so

much the more dangerous.

18. Reckoning themselves to be of men by far in all

things the best.

26. All wish to quit the execrable land,

Leave the polluted place, and northward sail.

32. In the fulness of the saints, not in the fulness of the

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impious, is the detention of Mary.

'tis enough the race accurst t' have shunn'd.

22. A certain reverence is to be shown towards men. 31. And Britain with her painted car.

36. It is a nation to which nature has given bodies and

minds great rather than firm.

last line. How much Gauls in manliness the rest of mortals

excelled.

48, 3. But Gauls, I think, do not need applauders, who

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for them at home, as the saying is, are born.

16. Th' English are angels who deserve no trust:

When they say Hail, then look out for some ail.

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17. Following his fathers, moved by love of lore,

He went to th' Irish, much for wisdom famed. 24. The bodies and minds of the natives with rare and extraordinary endowments of nature furnished. (Flourishing in worth of Christian religion; almost equalling the number of the stars in patronages of saints.

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32. Excelling all faith of neighbouring nations.

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33. Full of holy and wonderful men.

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34. A place holy and fruitful in holy men, and as it

were inundating the world with swarms of such.

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36. Excelling all neighbouring nations in faith.

P. 49, last line. The whole island as it is than all the globe of earth more fertile, so in the glorious simplicity of saints more blessed.

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14. Let Britain therefore boast, to its everlasting praise and glory, that, as among all nations of the Christian world it first acknowledged the Christian king Lucius, so it produced the first Christian emperor, Constantine, out of most holy Helen, and first saluted him as Augustus.

27. O happy Spain, which has in heaven so many holy

intercessors and martyrs !

32. O country, O race, with so great patron blest,

Thro' whom the life doth come, O country, O race! 40. It hath seemed good to us and to all our soldiers and rustics.

52, 13. By all He would be acknowledged who vouchsafed

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for all to be born.

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17. All nations shall come from far, bringing their gifts. 53, 32. Apply with your whole strength to praise, sup

port your fatherland.

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34. Naught is good, naught is great, naught of value possessed,

But with thought, deed, and birth, in our Paris is blessed;

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Blot out for me Paris, thou blottest the world, Roses, lilies, and light, into nothing are hurl'd. 1. Gives thanks, and kisses on the foreign earth

Fastens, and th' unknown mounts and fields salutes. 12. Far from us, however, all enmity against the stranger as such: we do not hate him, we only prefer to him our fellow-citizens.

57, 1. But from us the refined suspicions drive

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With which we chatter 'gainst each other.
9. In short, not to treat of particulars, we ought to
cultivate, cherish, and preserve a common agree-
ment and communion of the whole race of men.

27. Trojan and Tyrian shall no diff'rence find.
29. O France, already thou wert named,

Each where, treasure of nobleness;
For ev'ry one might find thee famed
For goodness, honour, gentleness,
Loyalty, sense, and courteousness.
36. Thine advocate make Humbleness,
Who'll very glad be thee to heal
Entire: in him place confidence.
The court of Rome has had thee named
Her dexter arm, in feebleness
Oft found her stay; and thou art famed
By Popes, who thee in singleness
Place at their right: thy claim possess,
But let it move thee grief to feel

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