DIALOGUE VII.-Primitive Episcopacy; Persecution; The Sign of the Cross; The Happy Life Corinth Imagination; The Fall DIALOGUE VIII.-Paganism; Pagan View of Nature; Animals; P.S. The Materials for Three more Books have been collected,-The Desecrated City (Constantinople)-The Kaiser's Lands—and SIGHTS AND THOUGHTS, &c. BOOK I. PARIS AND AVIGNON. THE traveller in the Middle Ages rose with the religious men, beneath whose roof he had found shelter for the night; with them he sought, first of all, the house, oftentimes the Altar, of God, and joined in the matin service of the Western Church. He went forward on his road with prayer and benediction. Prosperum iter, was the kindly monks' farewell, faciat tibi Deus salutarium nostrorum: utinam dirigantur viæ tuæ ad custodiendas justificationes Dei! and from field, and brook, and bush, the salutation still for miles came forth, haunting his ear, Procedas in pace in nomine Domini! A cloud of good wishes accompanied and guarded him from monastery to monastery, while the courts of bishops and the cloisters of learned men were opened to him, by the commendatory letters of his native prelates. True, B |