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How could Marcus Curtius saddle up for his terrible leap, and keep the words of the Oracle a secret? At any rate, he could not see her confusion at her own malapropos that was something! She recovered from it to find him saying: "But what I want to know is what happened yesterday? I mean, how came you to know anything you did not know before? Was it anything I did?
This latter temple is supposed, from a bas-relief found in it, representing the Sibyl sitting in the act of delivering an oracle, to be the ancient shrine of the Sibyl Albunea mentioned by Horace, Tibullus, and Lactantius. The earliest bronze statues at Rome were those of the three Sibyls, placed near the Rostra, in the middle of the Forum.
He will be no oracle to them. But a still more marked defect weakens "Émile" as one of the guide-books of the world, great as are its varied excellencies. The author undermines all faith in Christianity as a revelation, or as a means of man's communion with the Divine, for guidance, consolation, or inspiration.
Be quick, now, but don't disturb the Spirit," cried Ham. "Oracle fire, your grandmother," interrupted Phil. "I'm as hungry as a pet lion, and it's breakfast for me, and that right soon; oatmeal, a boiled egg, and some rye bread sounds about right!" "Me, too," chimed in Fat, reaching for his haversack. "Hungry's no name, and I don't believe I brought enough grub, either." "Stop!" shouted Ham.
By fireside fidelity the soul is expanded and our being lifted toward God. View your relative connections as each a Heaven-sent teacher. Incline your ear to them, as if through their lips an oracle uttered its decrees in your hearing. By your Reading, much may be accomplished toward correcting your taste, enlarging your intellectual vision, and sanctifying your spirit.
Affectation displays itself in a thousand different gestures, motions, airs and looks, according to the character which the person affects. Affectation of learning gives a stiff formality to the whole person. The words come stalking out with the pace of a funeral procession, and every sentence has the solemnity of an oracle.
There were few subjects on which she had not thought, and her clear perceptions went at once to the bottom of a subject, so that she solved simply many a question on which astute philosophers had found themselves at fault. I came at last to regard her opinion almost as an oracle.
Josephus, on the other hand, regards the fall of the Temple as a favorable opportunity to give a list of the prodigies and omens that heralded it. For example, he finds a proof of Providence in the fulfilment of the oracle, that the city and the holy house should be taken when the Temple should become foursquare.
"Only silly nonsense." "You have never found the right one; but I I see the meaning of the oracle." "You?" "Ay, I! The stern Balbilla will at last descend from the lofty Olympus of her high-anti-mightiness and no longer disdain that immutable foundation-rock, the adoration of her faithful Verus." "That foundation that rock!" laughed the girl.
I then pointed out the psalms which she was to recite to the moon, and those which she was to say in the face of the rising sun, at a closed window. This last direction filled her with admiration, "for," said she, "the oracle knew that I should catch cold if the window were open.
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