Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 401 pages of information about Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold.

Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 401 pages of information about Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold.

[202] Meditations, III, 14.

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203. Antoninus Pius.  Roman Emperor, A.D. 138-161, and foster-father of M. Aurelius.

[204] To become current in men’s speech.

[205] The real name of Voltaire was Francois Marie Arouet.  The name Voltaire was assumed in 1718 and is supposed to be an anagram of Arouet le j(eune).

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[206] See Function of Criticism, Selections, p. 36.[Transcriber’s note:  This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 36 in this e-text.]

[207] Louis IX of France (1215-70), the leader of the crusade of 1248.

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[208] The Saturday Review, begun in 1855, was pronouncedly conservative in politics.  It devoted much space to pure criticism and scholarship, and Arnold’s essays are frequently criticized in its columns.

[209] He died on the 17th of March, A.D. 180.[Arnold.]

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[210] Juvenal’s sixth satire is a scathing arraignment of the vices and follies of the women of Rome during the reign of Domitian.

[211] See Juvenal, Sat. 3, 76.

[212] Because he lacks an inspired poet (to sing his praises).  Horace, Odes, IV, 9, 28.

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[213] Avidius Cassius, a distinguished general, declared himself Emperor in Syria in 176 A.D.  Aurelius proceeded against him, deploring the necessity of taking up arms against a trusted officer.  Cassius was slain by his own officers while M. Aurelius was still in Illyria.

[214] Commodus.  Emperor of Rome, 180-192 A.D.  He was dissolute and tyrannical.

[215] Attalus, a Roman citizen, was put to death with other Christians in A.D. 177.

[216] Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, and one of the Apostolic Fathers, suffered martyrdom in 155 A.D.

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[217] Tacitus, Ab Excessu Augusti, XV, 44.

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[218] Claude Fleury (1640-1723), French ecclesiastical historian, author of the Histoire Ecclesiastique, 20 vols., 1691.

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[219] Med., I, 12.

[220] Ibid., I, 14.

[221] Ibid., IV, 24.

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[222] Ibid., III, 4.

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[223] Ibid., V, 6.

[224] Ibid., IX, 42.

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