The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bea...r a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So little are the Homeric heroes presented as developing or having developed, that most of them--Nestor, Agamemnon, Achilles--appe...ar to be of an age fixed from the very first. Even Odysseus, in whose case the long lapse of time and the many events which occurred offer so much opportunity for biographical development, shows almost nothing of it. Odysseus on his return is exactly the same as he was when he left Ithaca two decades earlier. But what a road, what a fate, lie between the Jacob who cheated his father out of his blessing by a wild beast!--between David the harp player, persecuted by his lord's jealousy, and the king, surrounded by violent intrigues, whom Abishag the Shunnamite warmed in his bed, and he knew her not! The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality; and it is this history of a personality which the Old Testament presents to us as the formation undergone by those whom God has chosen as his examples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not being a K.N. [Know-Nothing] I am left as a sort of waif on the political sea with symptoms of a mild sort towards Black Republ...icanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Porter: O.K., O.K., you win. I'll marry you. How 'bout it? Lora May: Thanks. For nuthin'.... Porter: Now what kind of an answer is that? Lora May: I don't know. I just felt like it, that's all. Porter: We'll do all right, kid. We're startin' out where it takes most marriages years to get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded... and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"There?" he asked and pointed-- With his stick, reader, with his stick. S-T-I-C-K, gentle reader. A roughly hewn stick brande...d with the owner's name: Felix Wohlfahrt from Zwickau. With his stickau he pointed, gentle or lowly reader, with his stick! You know what a stick is, don't you? Well, that's what he pointed with--a stick--and got into the car, and left the stick there, upon getting out again, naturally--for the car temporarily belonged to him. I in fact noted that "quiet satisfaction." An artist's memory--what a curious thing! Beats all other kinds, I imagine. "There?"Mhe asked and pointed with his stick. Never in my life was I so astonished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"O.K., Marlowe," I said to myself, "you're a tough guy. You've been zapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm... until you're as crazy as a couple of waltzing mice, now let's see you do something really tough, like putting your pants on."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit ...against the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »