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Near them stood an overseer with a cane; he wore a stained tunic and a wig made of sheepskin. A little farther on some men held a woman by the arms, while she screamed in a voice which was heaven-piercing. Beating with a stick was as general in the happy kingdom of the pharaoh as eating and sleeping. They beat children and grown people, earth- tillers, artisans, warriors, officers, and officials.
Let us remember that solemn word, 'The pastors have become brutish, and have not sought the Lord, therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. And let us all, brethren, betake ourselves, with penitence and lowly consciousness of our sore need, to prayer, earnest and importunate, believing and persistent, like this heaven-piercing cry which captive Israel sent up from her weary bondage.
Impenetrable mists, clouds, and darkness, impenetrable to any but the eye that seeks also the whole, involve the heaven-piercing peak of this new height of learning, this new summit of a scientific divinity, frowning off warding off, as with the sword of the cherubim, the unbidden invaders of this new Olympus, where sit the gods, restored again, the simple powers of nature, recovered from the Greek abstractions, not 'the idols' not the impersonated abstractions, the false images of the mind of man not the logical forms of those spontaneous abstractions, emptied of their poetic content but the strong gods that make our history, that compose our epics, that conspire for our tragedies, whether we own them and build altars to them or not.
We decided to write a piece for the paper about it, and if the consul ever sees it he will be generous and understand. He will know why, behind the humble façade of his consulate on Washington Square, we see the heaven-piercing summits of Switzerland rising like a dream, blue and silvery and tantalizing. P.S. Since the above we have definitely decided not to go to call on the Swiss consul.
Heaven-piercing! The only way of dealing with the awkward dilemma is to get the woman persuaded to be 'good, and to lay down her weapon of her own accord, and let it rust. How many women have been so persuaded! Not I!" "I know, and I understand how you feel; but oh, Hadria, this is not the way to fight, this will bring no good to anyone.
From two thousand dusty throats came a heaven-piercing, soul-shivering shout, the cry of the Southern hunter in sight of his game, a cry that was destined to ring over many a field of death the fierce, wild "Rebel Yell." They charged McDowell's right flank with resistless onslaught. Kirby Smith fell desperately wounded and Elzey took command.
A couple of times, for instance, the heir noticed that in the evening Tafet sent off to Memphis immense baskets with food, linen, even vessels. Next day she complained in heaven-piercing accents that flour, wine, and even vessels were lacking. Since the heir had come to the villa ten times more of various products had been used there than formerly.
Among them we might imagine the mountain rising with thousands more of feet of heaven-piercing height: there is one degree of sublimity in mystery, as there is another degree in certitude. We lay to in a shady nook, just off Katahdin's reflection in the river, while Iglesias sketched him.
She set up a heaven-piercing wail, evidently overcome with indignation and surprise at the cruel treatment that she had received. What horrid selfishness to take oneself and one's property away, when an engaging innocent enjoys grasping it and stuffing it into its mouth! "Don't you feel a guilty monster?" Hadria enquired, as the lament of the offended infant followed them up the road.
To him, his particular code, surrounded by all the sanctions of custom, law, and religion, appears earth-embracing, hell-deep, and heaven-piercing, and any human creature who follows any other code appears fatally wicked, utterly shameless, and ineluctably lost. And yet there is no such thing as absolute morals.
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