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Real hurried to the Temple in order to interrogate him, and in his first confessions he criminated Moreau, affirming that he had held repeated conferences with Pichegru. Real immediately reported to me this fact, and proposed that Moreau should be arrested, since the rumours against him seemed to be well founded; he had previously made the same proposition.
Under the balcony there was visible the entrance to a dark tunnel-like passage, that evidently communicated with the temple, and a smaller passage, not large enough for a man to pass through, slanted downward to where it opened on the terrace below; which last was to drain the blood away, and also to free the amphitheatre from water in the season of rains.
The earliest form of sacrifice may probably be taken to be the sacrifice of an animal, followed by a sacrificial meal. Later, when the god has a stated place in which he is believed to manifest himself, tree or temple, then the identification may be effected by attaching offerings to the tree or temple.
BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY. When the city and temple of Jerusalem were destroyed by the army of Nebuchadnezzar, and the inhabitants conveyed as captives to Babylon, we have a right to suppose, that is to say, if there be any truth in masonic history, the deduction is legitimate, that among these captives were many of the descendants of the workmen at the temple.
One of my sisters! Not Caroline, I hope?" "No." "Then it must be as I once hoped. But why did you never mention it to me before?" Mr. Temple declared that he had thought there was so little chance of his ever being in circumstances in which he could marry, especially a woman who had not some fortune of her own, that he had scarcely ventured to avow, even to himself, his attachment.
"But," said I, "I always thought that Janus was a god of the ancient Romans, who stood in a temple open in time of war, and shut in time of peace; he was represented with two faces, which which " "He he he!" said the Rabbi, rising from his seat; "he had two faces, had he? And what did those two faces typify?
With a sharp thud, the stone struck Bert on his left temple, just behind the eye, and the poor boy fell to the ground insensible. Instantly the struggle and confusion ceased, but not before Frank, in a passion of fury, had dealt Bert's cowardly assailant a blow that sent him reeling to the ground, and had then sprung to his friend's side.
Perhaps there is one whose rights come before ours, Leather- Stocking, said Miss Temple. If so, we will waive our privilege. If it be me that you have reference to, said the young hunter, I shall decline another chance. My shoulder is yet weak, I find. Elizabeth regarded his manner, and thought that she could discern a tinge on his cheek that spoke the shame of conscious poverty.
This flight was called the "Hegira," and the date of it is very important to the Mohammedans, for their calendar dates from it, and for them is practically the beginning of time. In Yathrib the faith of Mohammed spread quickly and he received attention and reverence wherever he went. And when he had a large following he desired to put up a house of prayer, or a temple which he called a mosque.
Late in the afternoon we came in sight of Haitang, a walled town perched picturesquely on the side of a hill. A temple outside the wall looked attractive, and I should have visited it had it not been for the rain which now set in in good earnest. So, instead, I inspected the inn, which seemed unusually interesting.
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