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For he would, at one time, discover that from this Pen there floweth out unto all created things the water that is life indeed, and that the Pen itself hath been named by Thee the trumpet whereby the dead speed out of their sepulchers. How marvelous, then, are the manifold tokens of Thy might, and how great are the diverse evidences of Thy power!
Nay, some of them were not quite free-men, and these he was benefactor to, and made them free in great numbers; but obliged them not to forsake the city, by building them very good houses at his own expenses, and by giving them land also; for he was sensible, that to make this place a habitation was to transgress the Jewish ancient laws, because many sepulchers were to be here taken away, in order to make room for the city Tiberias whereas our laws pronounce that such inhabitants are unclean for seven days.
Do Thou destine for me, O my God, what becometh the greatness of Thy majesty, and assist me, by Thy strengthening grace, so to teach Thy Cause that the dead may speed out of their sepulchers, and rush forth towards Thee, trusting wholly in Thee, and fixing their gaze upon the orient of Thy Cause, and the dawning-place of Thy Revelation.
And now, when the capitalists saw that the people did not rebel, they again counseled among themselves on this wise: "Why should there be so much labor lost in continually quarrying new sepulchers in our diamond ridges, and why should there be so much dust lying idle in the old graves?
"Tell me, sis, if we pulled out of here and went to some other town, would you be better? How about Kansas City?" "No," says she. "Our feet ain't headed that way. I won't quit, dad." "You'll break your heart first, and your dad's?" "Yes, if necessary." "All to break into them sepulchers?" "No," says she; "there's a lot of things worth while more than that.
When Henry Frauenlob died, which was in the year 1318, the females who had insulted him in life carried his coffin to the tomb, which procession is chiseled on the tombstone beneath. I again looked at that noble head. The sculptor had left the eyes open; and thus, in that church of sepulchers in that cloister of the dead the poet alone sees; he only is represented standing, and observing all.
Harbottle been telling you? Anna asked him. The young man's eye followed Judy, his hand went musingly to his moustache. 'She was telling me, he said, 'that people in India were sepulchers of themselves, but that now and then one came who could roll away another's stone. 'It sounds promising, said Lady Chichele to me. 'It sounds cryptic, I laughed to Somers, but I saw that he had the key.
Many of these isolated wooden monuments fell before the long assaults of the elements; the low mounds vanished and the grass billowed in the wind hiding the last vestiges of the leveled sepulchers.
All the Pharaohs were there Cheops, Chephrenes, Psammetichus, Sesostri, Amenoteph, all the dark-skinned rulers of the country of the pyramids, and the royal sepulchers; on a still higher platform sat enthroned the kings Chronos, and Xixouthros, who were contemporary with the deluge, and Tubal-Cain, who preceded it.
The belief of the Egyptian that life was a short passage and his house a mere stopping-place on the way to the tomb, which was to be his permanent dwelling-place, explains the great care and labor spent on the pyramids, chapels, and rock sepulchers. They embalmed the dead for all eternity and put statues and images in the tombs to keep the mummy company.
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