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But wickedness lied to itself, to use the words of holy David, and righteousness overcame iniquity, completely overthrowing it, and causing the memorial thereof to perish with sound, as our tale in its sequel shall show. After two days the king visited his son's palace.
"Zephoranim!" she cried, "Hero! ... Warrior! ... King! ... Thou who hast risked thy crown and throne and life for my sake and the love of me! ... Wilt lose me now? ... Wilt let me perish in these raging flames, to satisfy this wanton liar and unbeliever in the gods, to whose disturbance of the Holy Ritual we surely owe this present fiery disaster!
Believe your sons' hearts; they have brought forth the truth; it burns in them; they perish for it. Believe them!" Her voice broke down, she staggered, her strength gone. Somebody seized her under the arms. "She is speaking God's words!" a man shouted hoarsely and excitedly. "God's words, good people! Listen to her!" Another man said in pity of her: "Look how she's hurting herself!"
There must be something greater than the snake. EVE. Yes: it must not be. Adam must not perish. You are very subtle: tell me what to do. THE SERPENT. Think. Will. Eat the dust. Lick the white stone: bite the apple you dread. The sun will give life. EVE. I do not trust the sun. I will give life myself. I will tear. another Adam from my body if I tear my body to pieces in the act. THE SERPENT. Do.
To leave that undone was to be false to his manhood; it was to be no better than the dumb beasts when their young perish. How could he let his boy suffer and die, without an effort, a cry, a prayer? He sank on his knees beside Athenais. "Out of the depths out of the depths we call for pity. The light of our eyes is fading the child is dying. Oh, the child, the child!
It is better to perish in a just and honorable struggle than submit patiently to foreign usurpation." "A very nice phrase, but the practical execution of such ideas is sometimes by far more unpleasant than the theory which they express. I am afraid you will have good reason to regret this day, and but what fearful noise is this again?
And so by these two links God's love of the world is connected with the salvation of the world. IV. The draught. Finally, we have here the draught of living water. Did you ever think why our text puts 'should not perish' first?
I persisted, and determined that a light should be got by one means or another, for I knew that, if I should go to sleep under so dire an omen, I must needs perish. So I ordered him to get a light as best he could. He went away and raked up the ashes, and found a bit of coal about the bigness of a cherry all alight, and caught hold of it with the tongs.
But how does the matter really stand? It is to a great degree the very reverse of this. The natural and experimental philosopher has nothing sacred and indestructible in the language and form in which he delivers truths. New discoveries and experiments come, and his individual terms and phrases and theories perish.
I do not pretend not to have felt ambition. No man should make it his boast, for it often gives to our frail and earth-bound virtue both its weapon and its wings; but when the soil is exhausted its produce fails; and when we have forced our hearts to too great an abundance, whether it be of flowers that perish or of grain that endures, the seeds of after hope bring forth but a languid and scanty harvest.
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