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These were the mountains to which Moses had looked from Pisgah; here Jephthah's daughter had made plaint for her young life; hither had come Mary in the joy of the angel's message; the stones on which he stumbled might have felt the feet of Christ. At the hill called Mount Joy they should have seen Jerusalem; but the air was thick, and they could only make out the Mount of Olives.
After this we returned to the west side of the Rappahannock and encamped at Pisgah Church, overlooking the plains about Brandy Station. As the war was prolonged, Confederate rations proportionately diminished, both in quantity and variety. Consequently, to escape the pangs of hunger, the few opportunities that presented themselves were gladly seized.
And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Sex has at least some definite reference, though when Freud makes sex accountable for everything he as good as makes it accountable for nothing. We refuse any Cause, whether it be Sex or Libido or Elan Vital or ether or unit of force or perpetuum mobile or anything else. But also we feel that we cannot, like Moses, perish on the top of our present ideal Pisgah, or take the next step into thin air.
The grave of the prophet was never known, and Saint- Germain may have insinuated that he began a new avatar in a cleft of Mount Pisgah; he was capable of it. However, a less wild surmise avers that, in 1763, the secrets of his birth and the source of his opulence were known in Holland.
With these words he hurried from the building, and going to the stable of his stopping-place, quickly put saddle and bridle on trusty Bob, and rode like a Jehu in the direction of "Mount Pisgah." Darkness was settling on the river bottom when Jasper Very came along the road passing by Judge LeMonde's plantation.
"You haven't seen this gorgeous view to the southwest, with Mount Pisgah looming in the center like some vast cathedral spire look, isn't it glorious?" "Fine! Fine!" he responded in quick, businesslike tones. "You can look for days and weeks and not begin to realize the changing beauty of these mountains, clothed in eternal green!
"My love," said Pisgah, rubbing his grizzled beard against the madame's fat cheek, "you are not hard-hearted. You will pity the poor old exile. I love you very much, Francine." "Stand off!" cried the madame; "vous m'embate! You say you love me; then marry me!" "Nonsense, my angel!" "I say marry me!" repeated the madame, stamping her foot. "You are rich in America.
I would willingly have studied it deeply, but circumstances prevented: the explorer too frequently must rest satisfied with descrying from his Pisgah the Promised Land of Knowledge, which another more fortunate is destined to conquer. At Zayla, the Hajj sent to me an Abyssinian slave who was cunning in languages: but he, to use the popular phrase, "showed his right ear with his left hand."
Abhor soup. Had forty francs here first day, but debtor with one boot and spectacles won it at picquet. Restaurateur says bound to keep me here a thousand years if I don't sock shall die no mistake! Come see me, toute suite. Fetch pocket-comb, soap, and English Bible. "Yours, in deep waters, FRECKLE." "The whole world is in deep waters," said Pisgah, dismally.
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