egyptians-i

Updated: May 11, 2025

When the Israelites had once achieved their journey through the wilderness nay, even through the earlier time of tyranny amongst the Egyptians-I suppose the actual years seemed as a dream when one awaketh. I myself have known forty years pass, for someone afflicted with a terrible mental disability, as a watch in the night, once light pierced through the clouds of the long-darkened mental vision.

Giberne Sieveking - Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman