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Book IV: The Valley of Humiliation Chapter I: A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet
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Journeying down the Rhone on a summer’s day, you have perhaps felt the sunshine made dreary1 by those ruined villages which stud the banks in certain parts of its course, telling how the swift river once rose, like an angry, destroying god, sweeping2 down the feeble generations whose breath is in their nostrils3, and making their thought, between the effect produced on us by these dismal6 remnants of commonplace houses, which in their best days were but the sign of a sordid7 life, belonging in all its details to our own vulgar era, and the effect produced by those ruins on the castled Rhine, which have crumbled8 and mellowed9 into such harmony with the green and rocky steeps that they seem to have a natural fitness, like the mountain-pine; nay10, even in the day when they were built they must have had this fitness, as if they had been raised by an earth-born race, who had inherited from their mighty11 parent a sublime12 instinct of form. And that was a day of romance; If those robber-barons were somewhat grim and drunken ogres, they had a certain grandeur13 of the wild beast in them — they were forest boars with tusks14, tearing and rending15, not the ordinary domestic grunter; they represented the
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breach
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propriety
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vices
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apparatus
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