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His angel name is Sandalphon, one of the greatest and mightiest of the fiery angel host. As such it is his duty to wreathe garlands for God out of the prayers sent aloft by Israel. Besides, he must offer up sacrifices in the invisible sanctuary, for the Temple was destroyed only apparently; in reality, it went on existing, hidden from the sight of ordinary mortals.
Great will be your glory in not falling short of your natural character; and greatest will be hers who is least talked of among the men, whether for good or for bad. "My task is now finished. I have performed it to the best of my ability, and in word, at least, the requirements of the law are now satisfied.
"I do but repeat the words of the Sultana, greatest of Padishahs. She says thou art off to the wars, that thou wilt return no more, and that she will not be the slave-girl of the monarch who shall come after thee and sit upon thy throne." "Wherefore dost thou trouble me with these words?" repeated the Sultan.
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident." "'T is unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket."
He must have been attracted to the subject by its embodying the concentration of tyranny, lawlessness, and brutality in old Cenci, as opposed to, and exercised upon, an ideal loveliness and nobleness in the person of Beatrice. But of all Shelley's works, the Prometheus Unbound is that which combines the greatest amount of individual power and peculiarity.
The greatest part of spurious Christian writings are utterly lost, the rest preserved by some single manuscript. There is weight also in Dr.
In stepped Mike, with an air of the greatest secrecy, handed me a letter and the identical box in which I had sent the flowers to Miss Mayton. What COULD it mean? I hastily opened the envelope, and at the same time Toddie shrieked: "Oh, darsh my dolly's k'adle dare 'tish!" snatched and opened the box, and displayed his doll!
Then Bertram had never been jealous of the favour shown his cousin, but had given him warm friendship, and Blake, who was much the stronger, had now and then stood between the lad and harm. He had done so again in Bertram's greatest need, and now he must not grumble at the consequences.
She delighted in out-door work, and sometimes dug so vigorously in our garden that she brought up pieces of the deck-planking with every shovelful. Our boarder took the greatest interest in her, and sometimes watched her movements so intently that he let his pipe go out. "What a whacking girl that would be to tread out grapes in the vineyards of Italy! She'd make wine cheap," he once remarked.
Such was Alchemy, such was Magic, such was and still is Astrology, and above all, Fortune-telling. But there is a more thorough humbug than any of these enterprises or systems. The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes or pretends to believe that everything and everybody are humbugs.
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