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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...ons sealed until the judgment of the dead, which cometh not till after the reign of the saints and the elect, designated in scripture, “a thousand ye... ...baptized men, which I call the Gentile church, who should every one of them have been a saint; being “by baptism ingrafted into Christ Jesus to be m... ...re faithful amongst the Gentiles; though I believe it will chiefly be by the sending of Elias who is promised before the dreadful and terrible day o... ...Prince of universal peace; using in this judgment and government of the earth his risen saints, who shall be his ministers to execute what ever his ... ...f Baal, and the coming of rain, after seven successive messages to look out for it from Elias the true prophet of God. And I have sometimes had a sus... ...may follow up and complete. For this Antichrist is certainly appointed to fall upon the mountains of Israel, whether perhaps he may be driven in som... ...ts had said continually, that a trumpet should be blown and a standard lifted up on the mountains. But it is utterly a misconstruction of the Apostl... ...ife, in perfect unity as the angels of God, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, Moses and Elias, Daniel and Job, Paul and Peter, and all the Coming o... ...oit with which he shall reveal himself to his people, by breaking the Assyrian upon the mountains, This gives him a right to the title of, Gebor, t ...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... true conversion, with all the circumstances announced thereof; —the mission of Elias for this single end, for the scripture mentions no other; thei... ... cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lor... ...bondman and every free man, hid themselves in t he dens and in the rocks of the mountains…from the face of him that sitteth on the throne.” Take no... ...g them into their own land and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all. And Davi... ...ed land, if yet it has not come to pass that they should be seen to inhabit the mountains of Judah in such a peace, quietness, and independence, tha... ... endure; God sustaining her with corporeal things miraculously, as he sustained Elias and so many other anchorites —and in spiritual things, by mean... ... at the right hand of his Father, he is honoured and glorified by all angels and saints. He is certainly constituted universal king and heir of all t... ...amb receiveth from the hand of God? that which he openeth before all angels and saints? that whose full opening causeth jubilee and rejoicing in hea... ...in whole or the greater part, be the persons who, after the resurrection of the saints, shall ascend together with them in the clouds, to meet Chris...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...imate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Land use: 12% arable land; NEGL%... ...cludes NEGL% irrigated Environment: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; soil degradation, desertification, overgrazing, deforestation,... ...ers ; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast Land use: 21% arable land; ... ...The Structure (LE), Andres Van Der Horst; Democratic Quisqueyan Party (PQD), Elias Wessin y Wessin; Constitutional Action Party (PAC), Luis Arzeno Rod... ...ion with MLN; Democratic Party of National Cooperation (PDCN), Jorge Serrano Elias; Revolutionary Party (PR) in coalition with PDCN; Social Democratic... ... land under cultivation Environment: about 30% of population concentrated in Saint Helier Special notes: largest and southernmost of Channel Islands; ... ...t Official name: Bailiwick of Jersey Type: British crown dependency Capital: Saint Helier Administrative divisions: 12 parishes Legal system: English ... ... ber 1986) Fiscal year: 31 April- 1May Communications Railroads: none Ports: Saint Helier, Gorey, St. Aubin Airfields: 1 total, 1 usable with permanen...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

..." Alinet Reed Latson, Jr., '09 5 "Mammy Loo" Cartwright Glee Club t") "The Mountains" Washington Gladden 'oO The Clubs The following men were taken on... ...CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH President's Address Arthur James Pierce. Song — "The Mountains," By the Class. Poem. George Burweli Dutton. BY HOPKINS HALL ' Co... ...ner-up of the tour- nament, f The annual Geology I trip to the Heltlerborg mountains in New York for this year has been sched- uled for Friday, Uny 17... ...ear '07 Largo—New World Symphony by A. d' Vorals Phantasie in E flat by C. Saint-Satus A. D. BAST I EN PKOPHIBTOK or TMB WilliamsHairOrssslngParlors U... .... Dnrint; l'.W4-(;. 'M. tiniliillun was at I'Eeole Norniale Sn| erienre de Saint Cloml, ne.d in lilOl) received the Professornt des Ecoles Xonnales (L... ...trnctor in French is XI. Henri Clement Luguet. LikeM tTnibiilun. he was at Saint Cluiid and was a()poinled Boursier en Angielerre. During Ui04-.t he w... ...istration in the oourse. CALENDAR Student SuffragfeBefore Gov't Club Mayor Elias P. Mann of Troy, was unable to address the meet- ing of the Good Gove...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...Straits Settlements, Mississippi River, Three Rivers, Laughing Brook, Rocky Mountains, Blue Hills, Pike's Peak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert, Death... ...icago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (not: R. R. or Ry.); Fort Wayne, Mount Elias. 95. In most cases, all names of publications. This rule, like ma... ...ounces . . . . ;" "The extraordinary story of the South Sea Company." 98. "Saint" before a name: St. Louis, St. Peter's Church, SS. Peter and Paul.... ...-overs, avoidance of, 147. Sacred books, capitalization of names of, 25. "Saint": to be omitted in connection with names of apostles, church fathe...

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The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

By: Various

...he file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, the Fortieth Book of the King James Version of the Bible, ... ...tate University is an equal opportunity University. The Gospel According to Saint Matthew Chapter 1 T he book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the ... ...ets and the law prophesied until John. 14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear... ...f man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto th... ...nt was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord... ...em be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 13 And if so be that h... ...e, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurre...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...9 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains un- der the whole heaven were covered. 20 The water was fteen cu... ... whole heaven were covered. 20 The water was fteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. 21 And all esh was destroyed that moved upon t... ...d in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. 5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the ... ...r the son of Ammisaddai. 13 Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran. 14 Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel. 15 Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These a... ...re fty-nine thousand three hundred. 14 In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel. 15 And the whole army of his righting men that we... ...These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west, 24 Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25 And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of... ...se up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a ery law. 3 He hath loved the people, all the s... ...ord’s, and upon them he hath set the world. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall pr... ...f Paralipomenon 523 let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation, and thy saints rejoice in good things. 42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy...

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The Talisman

By: Sir Walter Scott

... and lance, to open the road to the Holy Sepulchre, and protect the chosen saints and anchorites who yet dwell in this land of promise and of miracle.... ...rom the same source?” “Thanks to the Prophet that hath so far honoured our mountains as to send from their bosom him whose word is victory,” answered ... ...in an instant the sisters were trans- ported to an enchanted castle on the mountains of Tugrut, in Kurdistan, and were never again seen by mortal eye.... ...hich he brandished round his head with singular dexterity, “Thou seest thy saint,” said the Saracen, laughing, for the first time, at the unmitigated ... ...e which lay near him. “This is a madman,” said Sir Kenneth. “Not the worse saint,” returned the Moslem, speaking ac- cording to the well-known Eastern... ... swear to thee by my holy order, by the habit which I wear, by the blessed Elias, our founder, even him who was trans- lated without suffering the ord... ...ers and sullen waters of the Dead Sea, the ragged and precipitous chain of mountains arising on the left, the two or three palms clustered together, f...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

..., were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters pre- vail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all esh died that moved upon the earth, bot... ...e seventh month, Genesis 11 on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth... ...th: in the tenth month, on the rst day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah o... ...r the son of Ammishaddai. 13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran. 14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These ... ...red. 14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel. 15 And his host, and those that were num- bered ... ...d. 24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the t... ...hem; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thou- sands of saints: from his right hand went a ery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the p... ...s right hand went a ery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall rece... ...ORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall n...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...onathan had taken place, when Saul was hunting him like a partridge on the mountains on the one side, and the Philistines had nearly taken his life on... ...alled Gedrosia, and now Mekhran. It was a most dismal tract. Above towered mountains of reddish-brown bare stone, tree- less and without verdure, the ... ... But the old Mattathias could not long bear the rude wild life in the cold mountains, and he soon died. First he called all his five sons, and bade th... ...then beheaded to gratify the rage of the vindictive woman. Since Scripture Saints in the age of miracles were not al- ways shielded from the wrath of ... ...is the cause of God. The first of these Christian bishops was Ambrose, the sainted prelate of Milan. It was indeed a Christian Emperor whom he opposed... ...s their protectress, and that in after ages she has grown to be the patron saint of the city. She lived to see the son of Hilperik, Chlodweh, or, as h... ...s and prisons for them. The Burgomaster was ill in bed, but the Judge, one Elias Seiler, spoke up at once. ‘If we have been able to bring the men into...

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Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ay have one of those honourable prefixes to his name, yet be born far from Saint Michael’s Mount.” Mine host pushed his curiosity no further, but pres... ...I passed under the east oriel window of the old mansion, where all the old saints and his- tories and such-like are painted. It was not the common pat... ...wrath no more than a shelled pea-cod; and I will visit his Lindabrides, by Saint George, be he willing or no!” 29 Sir Walter Scott “I would gladly pa... ...readed potentate, in the person of an unknown and unmarked stranger. “Holy Elias!” he exclaimed, when he had recovered the first stunning effects of h... ...an?” As, at the blast of that last trumpet, the guilty shall call upon the mountains to cover them, Leicester’ s inward thoughts invoked the stately a...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...we demanded battle of you, and yet we knew not your name. Nevertheless, by Saint Cross, said Sir Uwaine, he is a strong knight at mine advice as any i... ...and they entered nigh the Castle of Tintagil; and their captain’s name was Elias, a good man of arms. When King Mark understood his enemies were enter... ...erst I may do him no good. Then King Mark had his an- swer. Therewith came Elias and bade the king yield up the castle: For ye may not hold it no whil... ...nd bade the king yield up the castle: For ye may not hold it no while. Sir Elias, said the king, so will I yield up the castle if I be not soon rescue... ...at sought him. And she which was nothing assured cried with an high voice: Saint Mary succour your maid. And anon she espied where Sir Bors came ridin... ...half that I ne lay ten times where men dwelled, but in wild forests and in mountains, but God was ever my comfort. Then rode they a great while till t... ... and at domesday to sit on his right side, for as sinful as ever I was are saints in heaven. Therefore, Sir Launcelot, I require thee and beseech thee...

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A Legend of Montrose

By: Sir Walter Scott

...f such fellows as our friend the soldado. To use the canting phrase of the saints in the English Parliament, the sons of Zeruiah are still too many fo... ...led, from their houseless state, and their incessantly wandering among the mountains and glens, the Children of the Mist. They are a fierce and hardy ... ...es five miles south of Aberdeen, I can tell him it was lately purchased by Elias Strachan, as rank a rebel as ever swore the Covenant” “The crop-eared... ...ends,” said he, “Gustavus is not new to the dangers of travelling, and the mountains of Bohemia; and (no disparagement to the beals and corries Mr. An... ..., and of which Sir Miles, who never saw them, confirms the horrors,) these mountains may compete with the vilest roads in Europe. In fact, my horse ha... ...and must die, unless she is now aided.” And the Lady answered, “Blessed be Saint Bridget and her morn, for these are the dark eyes and the falcon look...

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Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...l upon you, as per margin, and am, sir, your most obedt., humble servant, “Elias Hoseason.” “You see, Davie,” resumed my uncle, as soon as he saw that... ... Ardshiel had to flee like a poor 73 Robert Louis Stevenson deer upon the mountains — he and his lady and his bairns. A sair job we had of it before ... ... by the shore of the Linnhe Loch. The sun was already gone from the desert mountains of Ardgour upon the hither side, but shone on those of Appin on t... ...t put the water to my lips before I could believe it to be truly salt. The mountains on either side were high, rough and barren, very black and gloomy... ...about to lie on the naked rock, which was indeed like the position of that saint that was martyred on a gridiron; and it ran in my mind how strange it...

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The Compleat Angler

By: Izaak Walton

...le pin ions cut the fluid air, and so makes her highway over the steepest mountains and deepest rivers, and in her glorious career looks with contemp... ...lifted above earth, and say, “Lord, what musick hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such musick on Earth!“ And th... ...n under ground, whose natural course carries them to the tops of many high mountains, as we see by several springs breaking forth on the tops of the h... ...w seen, many collected by John Tradescant, and oth ers added by my friend Elias Ashmole, Esq., who now keeps them carefully and methodically at his h... ...ng up her head, Still blushing, rise from old Tithonus’ bed. The hills and mountains raised from the plains, The plains extended level with the ground...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

...-ye can see it in their fat faces—have paid him homage and service! By the Saints,” he said, rubbing his nose, “I never thought En- gland would be so ... ...e and burned incense before it. Hugh and I commended ourselves to God, and Saint Barnabas, and Our Lady of the Assumption, who was specially dear to m... ...ch him, both of ye. There be devils in Africa, as I have heard, but by the Saints, there be greater devils in Pevensey!” And that was all he would say... ... to the talk of his father’s friends above the table. They came across the mountains, from out of all the world, for my Prince’s father was their coun... ...like a spear without a head. He cannot do much harm. I said, therefore, to Elias of Bury, a great one among our people: “Why do our people lend any mo... ...do our people lend any more to the Kings that oppress us?” “Because,” said Elias, “if we refuse they stir up their people against us, and the People a... ...ome with thee to Bury. Maybe my Kingdom shall be there.” ‘So I sailed with Elias to the darkness and the cruelty of Bury in England, where there are n...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...(that this ill and worse I may escape) to lead me, where thou saidst, That I Saint Peter’s gate may view, and those Who as thou tell’st, are in such d... ...descend into the vale, At Forli by that name no longer known, Rebellows o’er Saint Benedict, roll’d on From the’ Alpine summit down a precipice, Where... ...his feet. CANTO XVII “Lo! the fell monster with the deadly sting! Who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls And firm embattled spears, and wit... ... pass the bridge; that on one side All front toward the castle, and approach Saint Peter’s fane, on th’ other towards the mount. Each divers way ... ...might shoot again. “Aruns, with rere his belly facing, comes. On Luni’s mountains ‘midst the marbles white, Where delves Carrara’s hind, who wons... ...guilt, Tell me if those, who in Romagna dwell, Have peace or war. For of the mountains there Was I, betwixt Urbino and the height, Whence Tyber first ... ... rather: for that will To the tree leads us, by which Christ was led To call Elias, joyful when he paid The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 192 O... ...per sleeps Were broken, that they their tribe diminish’d saw, Both Moses and Elias gone, and chang’d The stole their master wore: thus to myself Retur...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...first book, and in 1590 he published the comic catalogue of the library of Saint Victor, borrowed from the second book. It is not a translation, but a... ...there are the sheep. The tempest is there, and the in- vocation to all the saints. Rabelais improves all he borrows, but it is from Folengo he starts.... ...th may not have been manipulated and adorned. The Counts of Anjou were not saints. They were proud, quarrelsome, violent, rapacious, and extravagant, ... ...reatises; as you may like- wise perceive by experience, when you pass over mountains covered with snow, how you will complain that you cannot see well... ...f threepence towards the zenith and a halfpenny, forasmuch as the Riphaean mountains had been that year oppressed with a great sterility of counterfei... ...hia (at) Constantinople, 287 Rabelais and saw there great rocks, like the mountains in Denmark— I believe that those were his teeth. I saw also fair ... ...the helve. Now had he wished to coach it to heaven in a fiery chariot like Elias, to multiply in seed like Abraham, be as rich as Job, strong as Samso...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...share throughout our lives:- but even to them, no more than to our Western saints and he- roes, does the law of the state supersede the higher law of ... ...mind. And I would not laugh if I were you, though while he was thus making mountains out of what you think molehills, he were still (as perhaps he was... ...empt to draw again, and with more specification, the character of the dead saint whom it has pleased you to vilify: so much being done, I shall say fa... ...are surprised at the extravagant newspaper laudations, as if he was a most saintly philanthropist. The simple truth is, he was a coarse, dirty man, he... ...had not merely read Bunyan, he had also thoughtfully lived. The Delectable Mountains– I continue skimming the first part– are not on the whole happily... ...ing blasphemies; the daylight breaking through that rent cave-mouth of the mountains and falling chill adown the haunted tunnel; Christian’s further p... ...self, however fair may be the life to which it leads. And though Enoch and Elias went into the temple through a gate which certainly may be called Bea...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...ldst conduct me there where thou hast said, That I may see the portal of Saint Peter, And those thou makest so disconsolate.” Then he moved on, an... ...n I grieved for thee. Among those was I who are in suspense, And a fair, saintly Lady called to me In such wise, I besought her to command me. Her... ... less ample seemed they not, nor greater Than those that in my beautiful Saint John Are fashioned for the place of the baptisers, 71 Dante And on... ...nsgression, Say, if the Romagnuols have peace or war, For I was from the mountains there between Urbino and the yoke whence Tiber bursts.” I still... ...that the bull unto her lust may run!” Then as the cranes, that to Riphaean mountains Might fly in part, and part towards the sands, These of the f... ...ave been broken, And saw their school diminished by the loss Not only of Elias, but of Moses, And the apparel of their Master changed; 249 Dante ... ...more the bird of God In the extreme of Europe held itself, Near to the mountains whence it issued first; And under shadow of the sacred plumes I...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...erable only, but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Scepti... ...n school. She initiated him into the mystical writings of those abstracted saints, and she engaged him in the study of alchemy, which served at once t... ... he discovered in the rest of the family hearts so openly disposed for his saint. The copy which he used only one week during the year was given over ... ...f Palestine. This land was already occupied, and tolerably well inhabited. Mountains, not extremely high, but rocky and barren, were severed by many w... ...ined by the locality which they have ap- propriated or appropriate. On the mountains which send down their waters to the Tigris, we find warlike popul... ...hich I had very zealously attempted in imitation of the “Last Judgment” of Elias Schlegel. One of these, written to celebrate the descent of Christ in... ...ith lines; and thus actually compelled me to draw the outline of different mountains up to the margin, and to fill up the fore- ground with some weeds...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...od that choketh, and a sore torment. The day cometh when the earth and the mountains shall be shaken; and the mountains shall become a loose sand heap... ... what the Blow is? The Day when men shall be like scattered moths, And the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool, Then as to him whose balance... ...the sun shall be FOLDED UP , 1 And when the stars shall fall, And when the mountains shall be set in motion, And when the she-camels shall be abandone... ...we reward the well-doers, For they were two of our believing servants. And Elias truly was of our Sent Ones, When he said to his people, “Fear ye not ... ... faithful servants. And we left this for him among posterity, “PEACE BE ON ELIASIN!” 15 Thus do we reward the well-doers, For he was one of our believ... ... It is recited in all Muhammadan coun- tries to the dying, at the tombs of saints, etc. On Ya. Sin, see Sura lxviii. p. 32. 2 Sura xxxviii. 85, p. 12... ... The man of the lot or portion. Or, of care, support. Ac- cording to some Elias, as others say, Isaiah. It is more prob- able, however, that he is he... ... the araboth.” See Wetst. on 2 Cor. xii. 2. 18 In obvious allusion to the saint-worship of the Chris- tians. 19 See Sura [lxxxvii.] vii. 71. 20 See... ...es a peasant 541 The Koran vows that he will sacrifice, for the sake of a saint, a calf which he possesses, as soon as it is grown and fatted. It is ...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...his own iden- tity with the most unmoved assurance, he speedily forgot the Saints and Fathers in the vulgar interest of curiosity. “I cannot be mistak... ...s drifted full; many a statue wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, dr... ...to carry up a single monk from Picardy? Or do you think yourself an- other Elias – and they’ll send the coach for you?” “Hominibus impossibile,” repli... ...ained window. “The devil!” he thought. “People awake! Some student or some saint, confound the crew! Can’t they get drunk and lie in bed snoring like ... ...ortant ROLE. The Press were unanimous in praise of my Howling Devil of the Mountains, in the piece of the same name. Madame, whom I now present to you...

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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

By: Olive Gilbert

...er unfulfilled promises arose before her, like a vexed sea whose waves run mountains high; and her soul, which seemed but one mass of lies, shrunk bac... ...lijah the Tishbite, and thou shalt go before me in the spirit and power of Elias, to prepare my way before me.’ And Mr. Pierson admitted Matthias’ cal... ...erstood that his mission was like that of John the Baptist, which the name Elias meant. This conference ended with an invi- tation to supper, and Matt... ... believe in a resurrection of the body, but that the spirits of the former saints would enter the bodies of the present gen- eration, and thus begin h...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

...t sacrifice, circling thy throne With loud hosannas, so of theirs be done By saintly men on earth. Grant us this day Our daily manna, without which he... ...th, I heard A crying, “Blessed Mary! pray for us, Michael and Peter! all ye saintly host!” I do not think there walks on earth this day Man so r... ... rather: for that will To the tree leads us, by which Christ was led To call Elias, joyful when he paid Our ransom from his vein.” I answering thus: “... ... Might rush unto her luxury.” Then as cranes, That part towards the Riphaean mountains fly, Part towards the Lybic sands, these to avoid The ice, and ... ...that lower doth The steersman to his port, stood firmly fix’d; Forthwith the saintly tribe, who in the van Between the Gryphon and its radiance came, ... ...per sleeps Were broken, that they their tribe diminish’d saw, Both Moses and Elias gone, and chang’d The stole their master wore: thus to myself Retur... ...s remarkably secluded by its mountainous situation “On an eminence among the mountains, between the two little cities, Nice and Manoca, is the village... ...e east and north, on the west they are bounded by the English sea, and the mountains of Arragon, and on the south by the people of Provence and the...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...round itself (for it would desolate a Popish village to withdraw its local saint), yet carrying one’s eye from this Epistle to the whole domains of th... ... ad- equate conceptions of the Deity. For, although it is true that, until Elias should come—that is, until Christianity should have applied its final... ...gs pointed to it; the ex- pectation and languishing desires of many Hebrew saints; the warning from signs; the prophetic alarms and kindling signals r... ... Naplous. In this direction, however, there was no want of men. Beyond the mountains cavalry only were in use: and the prisoners had no horses, nor ha...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s- day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh... ...houlders shook. Natasha’s face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day , suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver pa... ...waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pin... ...esvitski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But what’s the matter with ... ...ia, he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and aband... ...e, “and here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. *Fruhstuck: breakfast. 182 War & P... ...ew minutes’ reflection continued to think aloud. “Y ou know , Mary , today Elias Mitrofanych” (this was his overseer) “came back from the Tambov estat...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

... just above Mo- naco, are at the two ends of the Riviera; between them the mountains rise steeply from the shore, along which in Dante’s time there wa... ...m crying, “Mary, pray for us!” crying, “Michael,” and “Peter,” and all the Saints. I do not believe there goes on earth to-day a man so hard that he h... ...ed from sin they will retain no memory of it. 7 “Fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”—Ephesians, ii. 19. 8 “For here have ... ...un to her lust.” Then like cranes, of whom part should fly to the Riphaean mountains, 2 and part toward the sands, 3 these shunning the frost and th... ... and to the 1 At this sign that Dante’s body was that of a living man. 2 Mountains vaguely placed by the early geographers in the far North. 3 The ... ...slumbers 19 were broken, and saw their band diminished alike by Moses and Elias, and the raiment of their Master changed, so I came to myself, and sa...

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

...r. What would men have? Do they think, those they employ and deal with, are saints? Do they not think, they will have their own ends, and be truer to... .... Phaeton’s car went but a day. And the three years’ drought in the time of Elias, was but particular, and left people alive. As for the great burnin... ...sia and Africk and Europe, are but brooks to them. Their Andes, likewise, or mountains, are far higher than those with us; whereby it seems, that the ...

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