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Famine and pestilence occur in both, while the lions and leopards of the Epic find an equivalent in "noisome beasts". The sword is not referred to in the Epic, but as this had already threatened Jerusalem at the time of the prophecy's utterance its inclusion by Ezekiel was inevitable.
Ex President Cleveland delivered an eloquent panegyric and in closing said: "... We may well recall in these surroundings the wonderful measure of prophecy's fulfillment, within the span of a short century, the spirit, the patriotism and the civic virtue of Americans who lived a hundred years ago, and God's overruling of the wrath of man, and his devious ways for the blessing of our nation.
You haven't had any prophecies from me! Prophecy's absurd! All we've told you is about events whose probability approaches unity." "But " "What Father means," Gwenlyn told him, "is that you can't be told beforehand about anything you can prevent, because if you can prevent it you can make your knowledge false. So it isn't knowledge. What we want to say, though, is that we aren't through."
I told him about my troubles at the Old Home House and he thought 'twould be a great joke for me to travel back there like a lady. He's awful fond of a joke Mr. Van Wedderburn is. "'But that man? I gasps. 'Your husband? That's what you said he was. "'Yes, says she, 'he is. We've been married 'most six months now. My prophecy's all come true.
We looked for the prophecy's complete fulfillment, and with childish veneration regarded Will as one destined to sit in the executive's chair. My mother, always somewhat delicate, was so affected in health by the shock of Samuel's death that a change of scene was advised.
And still the circle around the stove in the Boltonwood Tavern tilted its head tilted it ominously as if to say: "Just wait a bit, he'll come to it wait now and see!" But the prophecy's fulfilment, long deferred, was making them still more bitter strangely bitter toward the boy, who stood alone at sundown watching the road that wound up from the village.
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