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To what purpose the ineffectual strivings of short-lived humanity? Man's life was but the shadow of a dream, and his work was but the heaping of sand which the next tide would level flat again." Wordsworth's "pathetic fallacy" that the moods of nature correspond with the moods of man has seldom found such eloquent illustration as in Morty's vain imaginings.
This was more than the porter's equanimity could bear. He looked about for a weapon with which to attack the Greek's face through the bars, heaping, upon him a torrent of abuse in the meantime. "Son of dogs and mules!" he cried in a rising growl. "Ill befall the foul souls of thy dead and of their dead before them." "Ahoy oh! Ahoy!" bellowed the Greek, who now thoroughly enjoyed the situation.
And let me tell you that's a very different job from heaping up population." Silence fell on the little group and they became suddenly aware of lapping waters and the sleepy twitter of birds, and even of a long slender thread of pale light that struck across the lake from a low-lying star. Madeline gave a little sigh and pressed her mother's hand.
Lo! another, with lands wider than his greatest ancestors ever possessed, must still go in for The Little More, adding acre to acre, heaping debt upon debt! Lo! a third, whose name, borne by his ancestors, was once the terror of England's foes, the landlord of a hotel! A fourth, but why go on through the list?
Almost, but never entirely. In the heart of every one is music. But often it is deep, deep down, covered by these other things. The older we grow and the more other things we see and think about, the deeper and deeper down does the music get. It is like heaping rocks, and dirt, and sticks on a bubbling spring.
And then, with a start of recollection, I remembered the crown piece that hung by a riband about my neck, and with the thought a flash of inspiration shot through my mind. I ran forward to the spot where Noah was already heaping the sticks for the fire, and, tearing open my shirt, I displayed the silver coin. "Look, Noah," I cried, "you shall have this, and five hundred dollars beside by and by.
He was far richer than he would have it appear. Let us investigate the careers of some of these powerful landed men, the founders of great fortunes, and inquire into their methods and into the conditions under which they succeeded in heaping up their immense accumulations. Livingston's title to his estate being called into question, a suit was brought. The court decision favored him.
To me it is so foolish, heaping up a mound, and erecting a tombstone over what? a dead thing, which, if one could see it, would be dreadful." "You would prefer complete absorption as of the ocean?" I brutally retorted. She appeared not to notice the innuendo. "Yes, what is gone is gone. Graves are idolatry. Gravestones are ghostly.
Manderson delighted too in heaping up wealth; he worked incessantly at it; he was a man of dominant will; he had quite his share of luck; but what made him singular was his brain-power.
It is not the protection of property, but the protection of humanity, that is the aim of the Mosaic code. Its sanctions are not directed to securing the strong in heaping up wealth, so much as to preventing the weak from being crowded to the wall.
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