This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...ghoul among beasts, that horror of ingenuous youth, till the same tender hand which turned Henry VIII. into a fond husband, and Judas Iscariot into a too zealous loyalist, touched the hyena too, and whitewashed him into a roving sanitary commission prosecuting its good work by moonlight. Here in the middle of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...ghoul among beasts, that horror of ingenuous youth, till the same tender hand which turned Henry VIII. into a fond husband, and Judas Iscariot into a too zealous loyalist, touched the hyena too, and whitewashed him into a roving sanitary commission prosecuting its good work by moonlight. Here in the middle of the tent lie the camels, mild and ugly; and immediately the white sands of the desert stretch around us, and the damsel Eebekah, lithe and blithe and very fair to look upon, stands once more by the well of Nahor at the even-tide, and down from Gilead comes a cavalcade of Midian merchants, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh. "Slow coaching," young America would say; but when Ahasuerus sent out all swiftly a decree to revoke the bloody edict of Haman, "hastened and pressed" by the love and the terror of his young Jewish queen--Esther the beautiful, and brave as beautiful, and wise as brave--the camels and young dromedaries held their heads high among his post-horses. Was it three thousand of such sturdy cattle as these that Job's stables held? Eound such tawny, homely necks did Zebah and Zalmunna hang their golden ornaments? And if, as my lord keeper affirms, it takes one hundred and fifty pounds of meat every day to feed a baker's dozen of lions and tigers, on what enemy's country could Job have foraged to keep his stalls from famine, even if his mews were as piously inclined as our nineteenth century beasts, who have unanimously agreed to keep the Sabbath-day by an unbroken fast? No feeding in this circus on Sunday! Let the compilers of our Sabbath manuals take notice. Whether it is for the health of their bodies or the subjugation of their souls doth not appear; but it would seem as if Sunday must be a rather long day to...
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