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Yet I did not feel poor, for thou wert left me, and thy love so like the dead Rachel's. Tell me, is he to have that too?" She bent over him, and laid her cheek against his head. "Speak, Esther. I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength." She sat up then, and spoke as if she were Truth's holy self. "Comfort thee, father.
The only trumpets freely allowed are of a musical sort, fit to amuse the people, the only spectacles, green goggles to keep out the glare of truth's sunshine, the magnifying-glasses, those which exaggerate the proportions of the imperial governor of the machinery. All sorts of moral lightning-rods and telegraph-wires are arrested, and lie in great piles outside the city walls.
To dare to make Art pander to a passing creed is vile worse than the spectacle of the Salvation Army trying to convert Buddhists. That I saw in India, and laughed. But we won't quarrel. You paint Faith's jewelry; I'll amuse myself with Truth's drabs and duns. The point of view is all. I depict pretty Joan Tregenza looking over the sea to catch a glimpse of her sweetheart's outward-bound ship.
It is merely one of her God-over-alls. I cannot spare room for it in this place. "I beheld with ineffable awe our great Master's marvelous skill in demanding neither obedience to hygienic laws nor," etc. The word is loosely chosen-skill. She probably meant judgment, intuition, penetration, or wisdom. "Naturally, my first jottings were but efforts to express in feeble diction Truth's ultimate."
How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
Welles," Marise appealed to him, "do you think that is the truth of the facts?" The old man pronounced judgment gently. "Well, I don't know that anything is the truth. I should say that both of you told the truth about it. The truth's pretty big for any one person to tell. Isn't it all in the way you look at it?" He added, "Only personally I think Mrs. Crittenden's the nicest way."
Our author hath written Alarm against Usurers, containing tried experiences against worldly abuses, London 1584. History of Forbonius and Prisæria, with Truth's Complaint over England. Euphue's Golden Legacy. The Wounds of a Civil War livelily set forth, in the true Tragedies of Marius and Sylla, London 1594. Looking Glass for London and England, a Tragi-Comedy printed in 4to.
He demanded her assent to truths, not because they were his opinions, but simply for the truth's sake; and on all points which touched the heart he looked up to her as infallible and inspired.
Beamish left his post; and one of them had even endured a cruel martyrdom for the truth's sake. A bread-shop in deed it was: and the old Christian, whose fervent appeal had given rise to its establishment, himself preached there in Irish to a delighted congregation, before the Lord took him to himself. *
He loved the truth for truth's sake and for man's sake. He saw oppression on every hand, injustice everywhere, hypocrisy at the altar, venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne, and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong, of the enslaved many against the titled few. In England he was nothing. He belonged to the lower classes that is, the useful people.
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