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The member of a secret society in college is really confined, socially and intellectually, to its membership, for it is found that the secret gradually supplant the open societies. But that membership depends upon luck, not upon merit, while it has the capital disadvantage of erecting false standards of measurement, so that the Mu Nu man cannot be just to the hero of Zeta Eta.
He spoke of Le grand art, le nu, and Lefebvre's unswerving fidelity to le nu...elegance, refinement, an echo of ancient Greece: and then, what do you think? when he had exhausted all the reasons why the medal of honour should be accorded to Lefebvre, he said, "I ask you to remember, gentlemen, that he has a wife and eight children." Is it not monstrous?
All had vanished while Sofia slept; Chou Nu professed blank ignorance of their fate; and apparently nothing had been provided in their stead but Chinese robes, of sumptuous vestments well suited to one of high estate.
Four pairs of elemental gods were worshipped at Hermopolis, each pair male and female; Heh, Eternity; Kek, Darkness; Nu, the heavenly ocean; Nenu, the Inundation. They are shown as human figures with the heads of frogs and serpents. There were also personifications of Seeing, Hearing, Taste, Perception, Strength, and the 'true voice' necessary to intone the magic formulae.
It shall come to pass that the Evil One shall fall when he layeth a snare to destroy thee, and the joints of his neck and of his back shall be hacked asunder. "My hair is the hair of Nu. "My face is the face of the Disk. "My eyes are the eyes of Hathor. "My ears are the ears of Ap-uat. "My nose is the nose of Khenti-Khas. "My lips are the lips of Anpu. "My teeth are the teeth of Serqet.
When war is declared in 1870 he remarks that a new vitality has entered his carcass, and, on the very eve of his demise, when in the morning he had attended a session of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet, loyal to his work and task to the very last moment, he closed the last and winning game of whist he played with the quotation of that grim bit of humor characteristic of Frederick the Great and his soldiery: "Wat seggt hei nu to sine ollen Suepers?"
After his first ravenous bite Moses had bethought himself of his responsibilities. "It's for the kinder," he explained. "Nu, the kinder!" snorted Malka disdainfully. "And what will they give thee for it? Verily, not a thank you. In my young days we trembled before the father and the mother, and my mother, peace be upon him, potched my face after I was a married woman.
'And how else should I live? Do you think I get fat on this inn? But people stay here from all towns around; I get to know a great circle of marriageable parties. I can show you a much larger stock than the ordinary Shadchan. 'Nu! Let your ear-locks grow the dowry grows with them. Mine host had quite recovered his greasy familiarity.
Finally, we come to nu, which consists of two very widely separated stars, nu^1 and nu^2, each of which has a faint companion. With the five-inch we may be able to see the companion of nu^2, the more southerly of the pair. The magnitude of the companion is variously given as tenth and twelfth, distance 137", p. 18°.
Nebertcher says: "I am the creator of what hath come into being. I myself came into being under the form of the god Khepera. Nothing existed at that time except the great primeval watery mass called NU, but in this there were the germs of everything that came into being subsequently.
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