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Belshazzar trembled when he saw the fingers of a man's hand writing upon the wall, Mene tekel phares. I wrote, says Jeremiah, with ink in the book. Christ bids his beloved disciple John, What thou seest write in a book. So the office of the writer is enjoined on Isaiah and on Joshua, that the act and skill of writing may be commended to future generations.
Who's going to do your waiting?" "Mene Tekel. She's going to wear a cap, and stand in the room all the time." "I hope that you'll be able to hear yourselves talk through her breathing." It struck Joanna that Ellen was not very cordial. "I believe you want to come," she said, "and I tell you, duckie, I'll try and manage it.
The next morning Mene Tekel brought fresh news from the Woolpack, and this time it was of a different quality, warranted to allay the seething of Joanna's moral sense. Sir Harry Trevor had sold North Farthing to a retired bootmaker. He was going to the South of France for the winter, and was then coming back to his sister's flat in London, while she went for a lecturing tour in the United States.
There is one lighted sentence near the end which brings before one's mental eye his often-expressed "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin," with regard to the Indian Empire, our past misgovernments, and our present failure to recognize old promises: "The glorification of our Indian policy only made me melancholy." Dr.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin, shouted Brann and died shouting, while the well-fed and fatted sat on the lid to keep it down. But we who have lived to see the lid blown off Russia and feel the growl and grumble of the bowels of all the earth need not overstrain our ears to hear Brann laughing now in that good Baptist Hell to which a bullet in the back gave him the passport.
The bloody sacrifices, and various purifications, of the pagans, show the handwriting of remorse upon their consciences; proclaim their sense of guilt, and their dread of punishment. None of them are free from the fear which hath torment, whatever their efforts to overcome it, and however great their boldness in the service of sin and Satan. "Menel Tekel!" is written on every human heart.
'What is this? exclaimed Alroy, really agitated. 'Rouse the guard, Jabaster, search the gardens. ''Tis useless and may do harm. It was a spirit that shrieked. 'What said it? 'Mené, Mené, Tekel, Upharsin! 'The old story, the priest against the king, said Honain to Alroy, when at his morrow's interview, he had listened to the events of the preceding night.
Bright on the dusky gold of the west the evening-star shone and throbbed, like a pure love-thought in the heart of night; and, dimly glimmering above the horizon, the giant pen seemed writing the Mene Tekel of my clouded destiny on the palace walls of heaven.
You have given praise to the gods of silver, of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which cannot see nor hear nor know; and you have not praised the God in whose control are your very breath and all that you do." "Then the hand was sent out before him and traced this writing: MENE, TEKEL, PERES "This is what it means: Mene: God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end.
On this occasion Mene Tekel Fagge brought the news, through the looker at Slinches, with whom she was walking out. "That'll do, Mene," said Joanna to her handmaiden, "you always was the one to pick up idle tales, and Dansay should ought to be ashamed of himself, drinking and talking the way he does. Now you go and tell Peter Crouch to bring me round the trap."
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