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'Thank you for that blessing, Master Copperfield!'he interposed. 'I will tell you what I should, under any other circumstances, as soon have thought of telling to Jack Ketch. 'To who, sir? said Uriah, stretching out his neck, and shading his ear with his hand. 'To the hangman, I returned.
He had brought the ark from Kirjath-jearim, and placed it in the tabernacle prepared for it at Jerusalem, and he now reigned over all the people of Israel and Judah. But David did a very wicked thing. He took the wife of Uriah the Hittite for his wife, and caused Uriah to be slain. God was displeased at what he had done, and sent Nathan the prophet to reprove him.
That these matters were not transacted openly, or generally known, maybe inferred from two considerations, namely, from Bathsheba's going into mourning for Uriah, and from Nathan's declaration, when he foretold the evils which would come on David and his family, to punish his sins on this occasion, notwithstanding his repentance.
Traddles, who lived in his house after him, said Mr. Micawber, breaking off from the letter; 'will you? 'The fool himself and lives there now, said Uriah, disdainfully. 'Ask HEEP if he ever kept a pocket-book in that house, said Mr. Micawber; 'will you? I saw Uriah's lank hand stop, involuntarily, in the scraping of his chin. 'Or ask him, said Mr. Micawber,'if he ever burnt one there.
The moment that a man is conscious that he is simple and humble, he is simple and humble no longer. You cannot become humble by reminding people constantly, like Uriah Heep, of your humility; similarly you cannot become simple, by doing elaborately, and making a parade of doing, the things that the simple man would do without thinking about them.
While I remain, I shall pursue in silence the path of right, but in every situation, public or private, I shall be gratified by all occasions of rendering you service, and of convincing you there is no one, to whom your reputation and happiness are dearer than to, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson. LETTER LIX. TO COLONEL URIAH FORREST, October 20, 1784
'Speak up, fellow-partner, urged Uriah. 'I had, at one time, certainly, said Mr. Wickfield. 'I God forgive me I thought YOU had. 'No, no, no! returned the Doctor, in a tone of most pathetic grief. 'I thought, at one time, said Mr. Wickfield, 'that you wished to send Maldon abroad to effect a desirable separation. 'No, no, no! returned the Doctor.
It don't matter whether it's letting the serpent tempt that fool woman in Eden, or Joseph's brethren selling him into Egypt, or Samuel hewing Agag in pieces, or the Israelites smiting the heathen, or David setting Uriah in the forefront of the battle, or Solomon having hundreds of wives; it's all right if God wills it. You'll say it's put right by what happens to them that do wrong.
There are men living to-day on Indian Creek who went to school under Uriah York, and they recall the uniqueness of his discipline as well as his school curriculum. The hickory rod was the enforcer of school rules, but full opportunity to contemplate the delicate distinction between right and wrong was given to all.
Heep, 'it would have been, that he might have known his company this afternoon. I felt embarrassed by these compliments; but I was sensible, too, of being entertained as an honoured guest, and I thought Mrs. Heep an agreeable woman. 'My Uriah, said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood in the way, and I joined in them myself.
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