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'The great master of elevated ideal landscape, Mr Ruskin calls Nicolas Poussin, and illustrates his excellence in one respect, after contrasting it with the slovenliness of Sir Joshua Reynolds, by describing the vine in Poussin's 'Nursing of Jupiter, in the Dulwich Gallery, thus:
But in time he had an offer to go up to London to follow his trade at a large house in the City, and got me a job as well, that I might be alongside of him. For we were like brothers. A few days before he went, Joshua happened to be coming out of his father's workshop just as Mr. Grand was passing, driving the neat pair-horse phaeton he had lately bought. "Well, Joshua, and how are you doing?
The path which leads to the Land of Promise is beset with difficulties dryness, sadness, desolation, and faint-hearted fears and would end in bewildering discouragement, did not Faith and Hope, like Joshua and Caleb, show us the fair fruits of this much to be desired country, and thus animate us to perseverance.
She left to Hur to explain to the lover whom she had forever resigned what she had granted him, and when Joshua heard it, he started back as though a gulf yawned at his feet. His lips were bloodless as he stared at the unequally matched pair.
It is all very well for Mademoiselle Susan, but you are not created for a religieuse. And again, it pleases you to spend hours with the stockbroker, who is as lacking in esprit as the bull of Joshua. He is no companion for you." "I am afraid," she said reprovingly, "that you do not understand Mr. Spence." "Par exemple!" cried the Vicomte; "have I not seen hundreds' like him?
"If ever I saw a straightforward man," Mr. Twemlow used to answer, "it was poor Percival Shargeloes. He is gone to a better world, my dear. And if he continued to be amenable to law, this is not a criminal, but a civil case." "A nice case of civility, Joshua! But you always stand up for your sex. Does the coach take people to a better world?
Henceforward the mountains of Ephraim formed the centre and the stronghold of Israelitish power in Palestine, from whence the invading tribes could issue forth to conquest, or to which they could retreat for shelter in case of need. Beyond leading his people into Canaan and establishing them too firmly in its midst to be ever dislodged, Joshua personally did but little.
The bas-reliefs were stripped off and sent to the palace to be melted. A beautiful equestrian statue of great size, representing either Bellerophon and Pegasus or, as the populace believe, Joshua on horseback commanding the sun to stand still, was likewise sent to the furnace. The horse appeared to be neighing at the sound of the trumpet, while every muscle was strained with the ardor of battle.
The names Ayab and Yashua recall Job and Joshua to our minds. The great alacrity shown in this letter was, as we already know, most acceptable to Yanhamu. Another Syrian chief, whose name has been obliterated, complained bitterly that Yanhamu had refused him a passage through his territories, although he showed the royal summons to Court.
Aunt Mary contemplated her in silence for a few seconds, and she suddenly cried out, in a tone that was full of pathos: "I feel like maybe—maybe—the calf’ll make me think it’s horses’ feet on the pavement." Lucinda rushed from the room. "She wants the calf shod!" she cried, bursting in upon Joshua, who was piling wood. For once in his life Joshua was shaken out of his usual placidity.
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