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Those who think their affairs too insignificant for God's regard, will justify themselves in lying crushed under their seeming ruin. Either we live in the heart of an eternal thought, or we are the product and sport of that which is lower than we. "It was evil money!" said the chief to himself; "it was the sale of a birthright for a mess of pottage!
And when Esau came fainting from the field at the point to die, it is no wonder that he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.
Jacob had intercepted the birthright, and for this Esau there was not even the réchauffé of a blessing.
The associates I chose were usually grave young women, ten or fifteen years older than myself; but I think I felt older and appeared older than they did. Childhood, however, is not easily defrauded of its birthright, and mine soon reasserted itself. At home I was among children of my own age, for some cousins and other acquaintances had come to live and work with us.
It is but right, before thou comest into thy kingdom, that thou shouldst know thou and thou alone the secret of thy birth, that thou mayst carry with thee into the big world thy birthright the sweetness of a supreme love."
An' thin he must renounce his political ideas, or promise never to mintion thim in public. But, begorra, he'd have to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage by makin' a decoy duck of himself!" In adding this great specimen to the immortal list of memorable mixed metaphors, I feel that my visit to Ireland has not been quite in vain. No. 10. "Burn everything English except English coals."
A love of melody was the birthright of her race, and the boy had a genius for music. He seemed to have but two ideas in life that, and a devotion which almost amounted to idolatry for the older man. They would walk up and down for hours, Vladimir with his hand on Paul's shoulder talking, gesticulating and commanding, while the other, his eyes on the ground, listened and assented.
I should like to put it on record that I understand it and am not inclined to regret the arrangements that have made me possible. My Birthright I had to steal my own birthright. I stole it and was bitterly punished. But I saved my soul alive. Myself I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.
But a part in the world-conflict convinced him that in the hundred and fifty years he had been disassociated from the country of his birthright, he had worked out his destiny along lines essentially Canadian. This view is likewise affecting and influencing the standpoint of those who have settled in the Great Northwest.
I want to see what the little chap 'll do with this rattler; these blamed little bells set up a jinglin' noise every time the hack struck a snag." During this monologue the machine-agent was silent, a dark frown of indecision on his face. As for his wife, she looked as if she had bartered her child's birthright for something that had disagreed with her mental digestion.
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