Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present, and the FutureHenry Colburn, 1828 - 417 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 389 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!
الصفحة 238 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
الصفحة 262 - You may scourge our naked vice by the force of arms ; and then you may return to your own land exulting in the conquest of the fiercest enemy of Rome. But shall you escape the common fate of the instrument of evil ? — shall you see a peaceful old age ? — shall a son of yours ever sit upon the throne ? — shall not rather some monster of your blood efface the memory of your virtues, and make Rome, in bitterness of soul, curse the Flavian name...
الصفحة 261 - Crassus came at the head of the legions : he plundered the sacred vessels of the sanctuary. Vengeance followed him, and he was cursed by the curse of God. Where are the bones of the robber and his host ? Go, tear them from the jaws of the lion and the wolf of...
الصفحة 391 - During the latter days of the siege, a hostility, to which that of man was as the grain of sand to the tempest that drives it on, overpowered our strength and senses. Fearful shapes and voices in the air; visions startling us from our short and troubled sleep; lunacy in its most hideous forms; sudden death in the midst of vigour; the fury of the elements let loose upon...
الصفحة 395 - Never fell on my ear, never on the human sense, a sound so majestic, yet so subduing; so full of melancholy, yet of grandeur and command. The vast portal opened, and from it marched a host, such as man had never seen before, such as man shall never see but once again; the guardian angels of the city of David...
الصفحة 260 - The Assyrian came, the mightiest power of the world : he plundered her temple, and led her people into captivity. How long was it before his empire was a dream, his dynasty extinguished in blood, and an enemy on his throne ? — The Persian came : from her protector, he turned into her oppressor ; and his empire was swept away like the dust of the desert ! — The Syrian smote her : the smiter died in agonies of remorse ; and where is his kingdom now ? — The Egyptian smote her...
الصفحة 393 - ... me, and besought me to lead them to some place of safety, if such were now to be found on earth. I told them openly, that they were to die; and counselled them to die in the hallowed ground of the Temple. They followed; and I led them, through streets encumbered with every shape of human suffering, to the foot of Mount Moriah.
الصفحة 238 - But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
الصفحة 393 - We howled to the caverns to hide us; we plunged into the sepulchres, to escape the wrath that consumed the living; we would have buried ourselves under the mountains! I knew the cause, the unspeakable cause; and knew that the last hour of crime was at hand. A few fugitives, astonished to see one man among them not sunk into the lowest feebleness of fear, came round me, and besought me to lead them to some place of safety, if such were now to be found on earth. I told them openly, that they were to...