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There was a general movement on the part of the assemblage a bending forward in salaam by the more aged, a rising-up by the more courtierly, followed by low genuflections, hands upon the beard or breast. His observations taken, Herod moved on until at the tripod opposite the venerable Hillel, who met his cold glance with an inclination of the head, and a slight lifting of the hands.
What can be more miserable than this universal hunting out of the high dignitaries, solemn functionaries, and potent, grave and reverend signiors of the world; this stormful rising-up of the inarticulate dumb masses everywhere, against those who pretended to be speaking for them and guiding them? These guides, then, were mere blind men only pretending to see?
"Give thine angels charge over us, that no evil may come nigh our dwelling." "Thou knowest our down-lying and rising-up, thou art acquainted with all our ways, and knowest our tho'ts afar off." "We know that in us, that is, in our flesh, there dwelleth no good thing." "Holy Father, keep through thine own name all those that are thine, that none of them be lost."
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