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He was given milk, wine, or honey to drink, and he chose milk. "Hadst thou chosen honey, O Mahomet," said Allah, "all thy people would be saved, now only a part shall find perfection." And Mahomet was troubled. "Bid my people pray to Me fifty times a day." At the resistless mandate Mahomet turned and retraced his steps to the seventh Heaven, where dwelt Abraham.
Beautiful as the scenery, the air, and the general surroundings were, I could not disguise from myself that the temporary exhilaration of my feelings, caused by the novelty and excitement of my journey to Cannes, was slowly but surely passing away. The terrible apathy, against which I had fought for so many months, was again creeping over me with its cruel and resistless force.
The King therefore sent the Duke of Alba to the Netherlands to restore order, and, with the twenty thousand men he commanded, make the insurgents feel the resistless power of offended majesty and the angered Church. Barbara and her friends greeted the stern duke as a noble champion of the faith, who was resolved to do his utmost.
"The roar of waters above us and below, and the glorious sense of being in the grip of a resistless current.... We're all in the grip of resistless currents. D'you believe that yet, Ban?" "No." "Skeptic! You want to work out your own fate. You 'strive to see, to choose your path. Well, you've climbed. Is it success. Ban?" "It will be." "And have you reached the Mountains of Fulfillment?"
The massive gates rolled open upon their hinges, and fifteen thousand mounted Tartars, armed to the teeth, rushed upon the little band with a shock utterly resistless, and, in a few moments, the Russians were cut to pieces in the presence of the whole army. The victorious Tartars, having achieved this signal exploit, swept back again into the city and the gates were closed.
But already the man had been found who was to crush those wild masses in his iron grasp, and dash the speakers of the clubs down into the dust with the flashing master-glance of his resistless eye. That man was Napoleon Buonaparte. He was hardly twenty-nine years of age, yet already all France was talking him as a hero crowned with laurels, already had he trodden a brilliant career of victory.
Here, where in the morning a mighty ship had floated, nothing could now float; but the noise that broke upon their ears told them of the return of the waters that now were about to pour onward with resistless might into the empty channel, and send successive waves far along into the heart of the land. "What is that noise?" asked Bruce. "It grows louder and louder."
He united in one mighty and resistless mass the broken and discordant factions, whose desultory struggles against tyranny had hitherto only added strength to its fetters, and infused into that mass his own lofty principles of action, until the solemn tones of expostulation and entreaty, bursting at once from the full heart of Ireland, were caught up by England and echoed back from Scotland, and the language of justice and humanity was wrung from the reluctant lips of the cold and remorseless oppressor of his native land, at once its disgrace and glory, the conqueror of Napoleon; and, in the words of his own Curran, the chains of the Catholic fell from around him, and he stood forth redeemed and disenthralled by the irresistible genius of Universal Emancipation.
There was no repression now; the Ark fairly rang with the sonorous strains of that wild Jubilate. They sang: "Light in the darkness, sailor, Day is at hand; See, o'er the foaming billows, Fair haven stands." Their voices rolling in at the chorus with the resistless sweep of the ocean-waves: "Pull for the shore, sailor, Pull for the shore; Heed not the rolling waves, But bend to the oar:"
Leopold now gathered his armies to trample those people down, and to replace the scepter of unlimited despotism in the hands of the Bourbons. With sleepless zeal Leopold coöperated with nearly all the monarchs in Europe, in combining a resistless force to crush out from the continent of Europe the spirit of popular liberty.
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