and
convents, wheresoever she has any relations."
[33] Sansovino.
[34] English, "Malmsey." The reader will find a most amusing account
of the negotiations between the English and Venetians, touching the
supply of London with this wine, in Mr. Brown's translation of the
Giustiniani papers. See Appendix IX.
[35] "XV. diebus et octo diebus ante festum Mariarum omni
anno."--_Galliciolli._ The same precautions were taken before the
feast of the Ascension.
[36] Casa Vittura.
[37] The keystone of the arch on its western side, facing the canal.
[38] The inscriptions are as follows:
To the left of the reader.
"VINCENTIUS CAPELLUS MARITIMARUM
RERUM PERITISSIMUS ET ANTIQUORUM
LAUDIBUS PAR, TRIREMIUM ONERARIA
RUM PRAEFECTUS, AB HENRICO VII. BRI
TANNIAE REGE INSIGNE DONATUS CLAS
SIS LEGATUS V. IMP. DESIG. TER CLAS
SEM DEDUXIT, COLLAPSAM NAVALEM DIS
CIPLINAM RESTITUIT, AD ZACXINTHUM
AURIAE CAESARIS LEGATO PRISCAM
VENETAM VIRTUTEM OSTENDIT."
To the right of the reader.
"IN AMBRACIO SINU BARBARUSSUM OTTHO
MANICAE CLASSIS DUCEM INCLUSIT
POSTRIDIE AD INTERNITIONEM DELETU
RUS NISI FATA CHRISTIANIS ADVERSA
VETUISSENT. IN RYZONICO SINU CASTRO NOVO
EXPUGNATO DIVI MARCI PROCUR
UNIVERSO REIP CONSENSU CREATUS
IN PATRIA MORITUR TOTIUS CIVITATIS
MOERORE, ANNO AETATIS LXXIV. MDCXLII. XIV. KAL SEPT."
[39] The Love of God is, however, always shown by the predominance,
or greater sum, of good, in the end; but never by the annihilation
of evil. The modern doubts of eternal punishment are not so much the
consequence of benevolence as of feeble powers of reasoning. Every
one admits that God brings finite good out of finite evil. Why not,
therefore, infinite good out of infinite evil?
[40] Let the reader examine, with special reference to this subject,
the general character of the language of Iago.
[41] This opposition of art to inspiration is long and gracefully
dwelt upon by Plato, in his "Phaedrus," using, in the course of his
argument, almost the words of St Paul: [Greek: kallion marturousin
oi palaioi manian sophrosynes ten ek Theou tes par anthropon
gignomenes]: "It is the testimony of the ancients, that _the madness
which is of God is a nobler thing than the wisdom which is of men_;"
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