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"They are loved for themselves, not for their deeds." "Ah!" "Yes ah!" said the lady. "Intellect may subdue women make slaves of them; and they worship beauty perhaps as much as you do. But they only love for ever and are mated when they meet a noble nature." Sir Austin looked at her wistfully. "And did you encounter the knight of your dream?" "Not then." She lowered her eyelids.
"Every business man, in short ;every man leading an active life, ought to read that," he said. "We should have a new order of things as the result Instead of fancying that our ordinary daily work was one thing and our religion quite another thing, we should transmute our drudgery into acts of worship.
I cannot tell where it is gone, the cloud that has oppressed me but it is gone, and it will not come back." "Yes," I said, "I recognise that I feel it too; our work here is done, and we have work waiting for us. We shall meet, we shall compare experiences, we shall love our fate. Life is to be a new quest, not an old worship.
The Arabian bards sang chiefly of love, as they well might in a land where female loveliness received such excessive worship. At the Saracenic courts, the bards were ever ready to win gratitude, and even more substantial rewards, by praising the latest favourite at the expense of former beauties.
"To-morrow," a person has remarked in the hearing of this one, "I go to the Stratford which is upon the Avon, and without a pause I shall prostrate myself intellectually before the immortal Shakespeare's tomb and worship his unequalled memory." "The intention is benevolently conceived," I remarked.
All things are credited with a soul like that felt by man within himself. Such lifeless objects as stones and mountains, trees and rivers, are worshipped; so too are both useful and noxious animals. Childish as it seems to us the worship of spirits is at least an advance upon this.
"In that case," said Sancho, "mind that your worship does not forget this as you did the oath; perhaps the phantoms may take it into their heads to amuse themselves once more with me; or even with your worship if they see you so obstinate."
At the same time also in the seuenth yeere of the raigne of Baldwine the Catholike king of Hierusalem, a very great warrelike Fleete of the Catholike nation of England, to the number of about seuen thousand, hauing with them more men of warre of the kingdom of Denmarke, of Flanders and of Antwerpe, arriued with ships which they call Busses, at the hauen of the citie of Iaphet, determining there to make their abode, vntill they hauing obtained the kings licence and safeconduct, might safely worship at Hierusalem.
He had learned that the God of heaven favoured him, and had helped him toward his power and glory; but he thought that for that very reason the power and glory were his own that he had a right over the souls and consciences of his subjects, and might make them worship what he liked, and how he liked.
And indeed he had sufficient cause to wonder, for the whole world was drowned, save only himself, and they that were with him in the ark. But I say, this was the first work, to wit, "to worship God." Hence note, That a sense of mercy, of distinguishing mercy, naturally engageth the heart to worship. "And Noah builded an altar."
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