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Octavius and Lepidus. Character of Octavius. Octavius proceeds to Rome. He claims his rights as heir. Lepidus takes command of the army. The triumvirate. Conference between Octavius, Lepidus, and Antony. Embassage to Cleopatra. Her decision. Cassius abandons his designs. Approach of the triumvirs. The armies meet at Philippi. Sickness of Octavius. Difference of opinion between Brutus and Cassius.
He was 'prevented by the Spirit from speaking in Asia, and driven across the sea against his intention to Neapolis, and hounded out of Philippi and Thessalonica and Beræa; and turned superciliously away from Athens; and so at last found himself in Corinth, face to face with the tentmaker from Rome and his wife.
Paul was as much a foreign emissary in the Roman colony of Philippi, as George Thompson was in America, and it was because he was a Jew and taught customs it was not lawful for them to receive or observe, being Romans, that the Apostle was thus treated. It was said, Thompson was a felon, who had fled to this country to escape transportation to New Holland.
Morrel looked at him in utter amazement. "But what has happened, then, since last evening, count?" "The same thing that happened to Brutus the night before the battle of Philippi; I have seen a ghost." "And that ghost" "Told me, Morrel, that I had lived long enough." Maximilian and Emmanuel looked at each other. Monte Cristo drew out his watch.
And now Jesus went right away from the Sea of Galilee again to Caesarea Philippi. That place was called Caesarea after Augustus Caesar, Emperor of Rome, and Philippi after Herod Philip. Then Jesus called the people who stood near, and His disciples too, and He told them that if they followed Him, they too might have to die for His sake.
This visit, as well as one to his Macedonian churches, was paid in his third journey; and when he had been arrested at Jerusalem, and was in Rome awaiting his trial before the emperor, Nero, he wrote to his friends at Philippi what is called the Epistle of Joy, so bright were his hopes of his friends there. St.
But I forget God bless me, you are as pale as the ghost of Pompey, at Philippi! Caleb, the Perkins elixir a glass! Now, young lady, just take it down at a gulp. It is the only alcoholic preparation that Napoleon Bonaparte Burress ever suffered to pass his temperate lips. Father Matthew does not object to it at all, I am told, on emergencies.
Sylla having thus dispatched him away, made an inroad into Maedica, and after wide depopulations returned back again into Macedon, where he received Archelaus about Philippi, bringing word that all was well, and that Mithridates earnestly requested an interview.
"It is fit only to be thrown out and trampled on! Let there be peace between you!" Jesus gently put Peter's daughter in her father's arms and left the room. He walked down to the shore of the lake. The trip from Caesarea Philippi had been tiring, and he longed to be alone. Under the tiny white stars he was far from the jealousies and selfishness of his followers.
The Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike divides at Beverly, the Parkersburg route passing over a saddle in Rich Mountain, and the Wheeling route following the river to Philippi. The ridge north of the river at the gap is known as Laurel Mountain, and the road passes over a spur of it.
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