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As examples, I mention that the dead lion will be called to life again if the wanderer marries the woman that he recently took; and that they put the two lovers that they want to punish for incest, after they have carefully removed all the clothes from their bodies, into a prison where these lovingly embrace. So much for the external resemblances of the parable with the dream life.
He who exults at the stake, does not triumph over pain, but because of the fact that he does not feel pain where he expected it. A parable. When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at six or seven great men. Yes, and then to get round them.
We are like children who have mixed all the colors in the paint-box together and lost the paper of instructions. Now this abundance of colors and loss of a color scheme is a pretty perfect parable of all that is wrong with our modern ideals and especially with our modern education. It is the same with ethical education, economic education, every sort of education.
Three men of genius took up their parable about what one of them called the 'Condition of England Question, and in the pages of Carlyle's 'Chartism' and 'Past and Present, Disraeli's 'Sybil, and last, but not least, in Kingsley's 'Alton Locke, the reader of to-day is in possession of sidelights, vivid, picturesque, and dramatic, on English society in the years when the Chartists were coming to their power, and in the year when they lost it.
No good hunter rushes at it in the hope of capturing it during the moment of indecision." "Indeed, Miss Wildmere, if I understand your little parable, I think Mr. Arnault errs egregiously, yet he does not frighten the bird into a very distant flight." "You do not know how distant it is." "No; I only see that he goes straight for the bird the moment he sees her."
The radiant pencil of Paul Veronese was early lost by his birthplace and given to Venice, in illustration of the parable, but even without her most glorious son native art makes a fair show in the picture-gallery and churches.
Ediva, the wife of Edward the Elder, and a generous benefactress to the cathedral, died about 960. From an early list of the subjects represented in the windows of the cathedral, it appears that the north windows of the north-east transept depicted the Parable of the Sower.
When the great German poet describes, in not the least noble of his lyrics, the sudden apparition of some "Monster Fate" in the circles of careless Joy, he assigns to him who teaches the world, through parable or song, the right to invoke the spectre.
Then answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Therefore while persistence is urged in prayer plainly it is not for the reason that required the widow to persist. And if that reason be cut out it leaves only one other, namely, that represented by the adversary. Having purposely put such a man in the parable for God, Jesus takes pains to speak of the real character of God. "And He is long-suffering over them." That is God.
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