Julian, Or, Scenes in Judea

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T.R. Knox & Company, 1890

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Page 51 - I design to extract are his audita et visa, from the supplements to his chapters — that which he saw with his own eyes, and heard with his own ears...
Page 11 - Roman bornvand my reading and studies had lain in a quite different direction. At ,this flourish, which I had hoped should pass with him, he quickly rejoined, ' You may be Roman born, but, if so, your Hebrew blood wears well, for the Jew looks out at your eyes as plainly as the Roman out of your cloak and your speech. Never hope to play Roman with those eyes in your head.' I was somewhat taken down, as you may suppose, by this ; but seeing I had failed, I put the best face upon the matter, and said...
Page 235 - Lord's hand double for all her sins.' Isaiah proceeds, ' The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a high way for our God.
Page 218 - the earth shall move out of her place and be like a chased roe "—but after that, "thou shalt no more be termed forsaken, neither shalt thy land any more be termed desolate; but thou shalt be called Hepzibah, and thy land Beulah; for the Lord delighteth in thee and thy land shall be married.
Page 127 - ... thought, of which he seemed to desire no participator. So we then rode along in silence together on our way; but soon wearying of this, I left my uncle to his reflections, and turned back to where Ziba was slowly toiling along with his heavy-laden camel, that I might hold discourse with him. As I reached him he was singing at the top of his voice a song in praise of the wines of Judea ; but soon as I joined him he broke off, saying, " that by the song he was singing he was trying to lose the...
Page 185 - Stars climbed out of shadowy abysses, and the great chariots of the constellations rode from the west to the east and from the north to the south.
Page 253 - I saw that the language of his countenance was not that of an angel, nor of a God. but of a man, bound like myself, by the closest ties to every one of the multitudes who thronged him.

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