United States or Mali ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The New York Tribune of December 3d said, and I can believe that Greeley himself wrote the words: "John Brown, dead, will live in millions of hearts, will be discussed around the homely hearth of Toil, and dreamed of on the couch of Poverty.... Yes, John Brown, dead, is verily a power like Samson in the falling temple of Dagon, like Ziska, dead, with his skin stretched over a drum head still routing the foe he bravely fought while living."
Great Dagon! There's another red signal flying, away over by the point! You hesitate, you make a few strokes in one direction, then you whirl around and dart the other way. Meantime one of the tilt-ups, constructed with too short a cross-stick, has been pulled to one side, and disappears in the hole. One pickerel in the pond carries a flag.
But do not look at me in that way, O son of Horus, for I feel a pain in the pit of my heart and my mind is growing blunted," finished the Phoenician, in tones of entreaty. "Well, sit in the chair, sit in the chair," said the prince, laughing. Dagon rose from the floor and disposed himself still more agreeably in the armchair. "For how long a time does the prince wish fifteen talents?"
As the Judsons drew near to Rangoon they saw on the hill, near by, the great Shway Dagon Pagoda with its tall, gilded spire shining in the sun with a brilliancy that was dazzling.
"Hast Thou gone mad?" cried the heir, at sight of this. "I will drive off thy sadness immediately. I need a hundred talents at once. Go, and show thyself not till Thou bring them." The banker covered his face and wept. "What does this mean?" asked the prince, quickly. "Lord," exclaimed Dagon, as he fell on his knees, "seize all my property, sell me and my family.
"How do, darling Mrs. Dagon?" said the responsive glance of Mrs. Orry, with the most gracious effulgence of aspect, as she glared across the room inwardly thinking, "What a silly old hag to lug that cotton lace cape all over town!" People poured in. The rooms began to swarm. There was a warm odor of kid gloves, scent-bags, and heliotrope.
A word which reads Da-gan is found in the native lists of divinities, and in one place the explanation attached seems to show that the term was among the titles of Bel. But this verbal resemblance between the name Dagon and one of Bel's titles is probably a mere accident, and affords no ground for assuming any connection between the two gods, who have nothing in common one with the other.
Much as he loved self-government he would never have been so swift to detect and so stubborn to resist every slightest encroachment on the part of the crown had not the loss of self-government involved the imminent danger that the ark of the Lord might be abandoned to the worshippers of Dagon.
Hiram pushed aside his toga somewhat in order to show the great gold medal on his breast; in answer to this Dagon began to toy with a large gold chain which he had received from Prince Ramses. "I, Hiram," said the old man, "congratulate thee, Lord Dagon. I wish thee much property, and success in thy business." "I, Dagon, congratulate thee, Lord Hiram, and I wish thee the same as Thou wishest me."
Wot they called the Great Gawd Bud." How many images of Buddha there are in the city it would be impossible to estimate I saw them not only in the pagodas, but newly carved in the shops which supply the Buddhist temples in the interior and the gilded dome of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, "the most celebrated shrine of the entire Buddhist world," glitters like a beacon for miles before you reach the city.
Word Of The Day