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"That's it. Now, then, you sit on his neck, Tom, and then I'll get up. And look here, you, sir," he added to the donkey, "you come any more of your games, and I'll knock your head off!" Solomon's flanks heaved, but he lay quite still, and did not resent Tom's rather rough treatment as he bestrode his neck and sat down.
'The mischievous bastard! exclaimed the Quaker, terrified out of his usual moderation of speech 'the doomed gallows-bird! he will break Solomon's wind to a certainty. I prayed him to be comforted assured, him a brushing gallop would do his favourite no harm and reminded him of the censure he had bestowed on me a minute before, for applying a harsh epithet to the boy.
The only son of David who was ever king in Jerusalem was Solomon; was Solomon the author of this book? This is the apparent claim; the question is whether we have not here, as in the case of Daniel, a book put forth pseudonymously; whether the author does not personate Solomon, and speak his message through Solomon's lips. That this is the fact modern scholars almost unanimously maintain.
But I may particularly mention, on this subject, Bunyan's "Solomon's Temple Spiritualized," and a rare work in folio, by Samuel Lee, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, published at London in 1659, and entitled "Orbis Miraculum, or the Temple of Solomon portrayed by Scripture Light."
'Hah! hah! hah! hah! choice pair, choice pair! We are more ethereal. 'She was a beauty in her way. Her eyes were luminous, though somewhat dank, and her cheek tinged with carnation caught from infant blood. 'Oh! gay; oh! gay; what said they? 'He was a deserter without leave from Solomon's body-guard. The trull wriggled the secret out. 'Tell me, kind brother. 'I'll show, not tell.
Incite them against Jerusalem, and exclaim: 'It is God's will! If only fire can be made to burn within them, they will march like the very devil, overcome the foreigners, and you will instruct them in Solomon's Temple about the Messiah. You can tell them that he is coming, or that you yourself are he, just as you please.
If the news of the capture of Cossimbazar Fort had preceded him, he might be stopped at any of the riverside places without any reference to Coja Solomon's abduction, pending orders from the Nawab.
The gold-laced, audacious company had vanished like a troop of powerful enchanters, leaving behind them a sullen throng of native genii, kept down by a Solomon's Seal which is not always unbreakable. Something stirred in the midst of the great mulberry tree, a tree so vast and leafy that it might have hidden many things.
Perhaps it was very childish, for Dick was a strongly built lad of sixteen, and had his memory served him truly it would have reminded him of that terrible kick in the leg which lamed him for a month of the black-and-yellow bruise upon his arm made by the vicious animal's jaws one day when he bit fiercely of that day when he was pitched over Solomon's head into the black bog ditch, and had to swim out of a dozen mishaps and injuries received from the obstinate beast.
This secular priestly party was called the Sadducees, probably from Zadok, the high-priest in Solomon's time. What theology the Sadducees had was for the most part reactionary and negative. They were opposed to the more earnest spirit and new thought of the scribes, and naturally produced some champions who argued for their theological position; but the mass of them cared for other things.
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