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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...dying of cruel treatment at the sack of Rome; and there was Eustochium, daughter of Paula, vowed to virginity from her earliest youth. But it was Paula who gradually and unconsciously became the centre of the whole community of attraction. Beauty, fervor of character, the noblest birth, and unbounded wealth were hers; with an intellect clear, just, and graceful, as befitted her Greek descent, and a character, naturally tender, passionate, and indolent, yet capable, as she afterwards proved, of the noblest Roman stoicism--every kind of distinction was concentrated in her. Among her Greek ancestry were numbered the royal houses of Mycena and Lacedaemon; in her Roman were the Scipios and the Gracchi. She had married a Greek said to be descended from Eneas, who remained faithful to the worship of the Olympian gods. When Jerome came from the East to Marcella's Palace, Paula was in the early grief of her widowhood; for a time, her sorrow had imperilled her life. She had five daughters and one son. On the subject of'these daughters raged the fiercest controversies between Jerome, the pagan world, and the worldly Anotias. Eustochium gave the first occasion. She incensed her patrician pagan kindred by assuming the dark veil and golden fillet of the Christian virgin. Trained by Marcella from infancy, her character, naturally of the firm, strong, ancient Roman mould, had been fortified by early discipline. Paula had grown up in Asiatic luxury,; carried everywhere in chariots or dainty litters, her feet had scarcely touched the streets of Rome; and the greater portion of her time, day and night, had been spent reclining on soft couches. Eustochium had grow up in the austere chamber of Marcella; the one great passion of her life was her love for her mother,...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...dying of cruel treatment at the sack of Rome; and there was Eustochium, daughter of Paula, vowed to virginity from her earliest youth. But it was Paula who gradually and unconsciously became the centre of the whole community of attraction. Beauty, fervor of character, the noblest birth, and unbounded wealth were hers; with an intellect clear, just, and graceful, as befitted her Greek descent, and a character, naturally tender, passionate, and indolent, yet capable, as she afterwards proved, of the noblest Roman stoicism--every kind of distinction was concentrated in her. Among her Greek ancestry were numbered the royal houses of Mycena and Lacedaemon; in her Roman were the Scipios and the Gracchi. She had married a Greek said to be descended from Eneas, who remained faithful to the worship of the Olympian gods. When Jerome came from the East to Marcella's Palace, Paula was in the early grief of her widowhood; for a time, her sorrow had imperilled her life. She had five daughters and one son. On the subject of'these daughters raged the fiercest controversies between Jerome, the pagan world, and the worldly Anotias. Eustochium gave the first occasion. She incensed her patrician pagan kindred by assuming the dark veil and golden fillet of the Christian virgin. Trained by Marcella from infancy, her character, naturally of the firm, strong, ancient Roman mould, had been fortified by early discipline. Paula had grown up in Asiatic luxury,; carried everywhere in chariots or dainty litters, her feet had scarcely touched the streets of Rome; and the greater portion of her time, day and night, had been spent reclining on soft couches. Eustochium had grow up in the austere chamber of Marcella; the one great passion of her life was her love for her mother,...
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