Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as an ...infidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sixth, and of creation last arose With evening harps and matin, when God said,... Let the earth bring forth soul living in her kind, Cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth, Each in their kind. The earth obeyed, and straight Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown: out of the ground up rose As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den; Among the trees in pairs they rose, they walked: The cattle in the fields and meadows green: Those rare and solitary, these in flocks Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung. The grassy clods now calved, now half appeared The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that .../>stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I meet him at every turn. He is more alive than ever he was. He has earned immortality. He is not confined to North Elba nor to Ka...nsas. He is no longer working in secret. He works in public, and in the clearest light that shines on this land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We soon saw, as he saw, that he was not to be pardoned or rescued by men. That would have been to disarm him, to restore to him a ...material weapon, a Sharp's rifle, when he had taken up the sword of the spirit,--the sword with which he has really won his greatest and most memorable victories. Now he has not laid aside the sword of the spirit, for he is pure spirit himself, and his sword is pure spirit also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »