We were learning that there was something infinitely more sacred than property .
I mean the power of blending into one state of national feeling all those who call what is contained within her geographical boundaries by the sacred name of 'Home.
The Orthodox fell upon his book and abused it, unrestrainedly abused it for its familiar handling of theirsacred books.
They abide by the letter of the sacred volume, rejecting all commentaries and traditions.
It arises out of a sense of the sacred duties of hospitality, and out of parade, if they have not the reality of that humility so strongly inculcated in the Koran.
When arrived at the gate of the sacred shrine, he stopped for a moment in silent awe, and asked a venerable priest, who was reading the Koran, if he might proceed, explaining at the same time his object.
If that were favourable to religion, his friends were to proceed; but if calculated to promote vice, they promised not to carry his body to the sacred ground appropriated for its reception.
At the sound of that sacred word the fair features and shape of the female changed, and she became black, ugly, and deformed.
I not the sacred claims of a neighbour upon you; are we not linked in the ties of kindred?
Meerza Aga Meer, who is a holy Syed, and consequently of the Prophet's family, took the word, as he is wont to do upon all occasions when he hears a name so sacred irreverently treated.
Koran that it is unlawful to plunder the living, but we are not prohibited in that sacred work from stripping the dead;' so saying, they knock you on the head.
He speaks of the "wise men there formerly were throughout England, both of sacred and secular orders," and of their zeal in learning and teaching and serving God; and how foreigners came to the land in search of wisdom and instruction.
But he interrupted these undertakings in 543 in order to write for his monks a syllabus of their sacredand secular education.
In the ninth century, Phelim, King of Munster, was an abbot and a bishop too; but he sacked the sacred places of Ulster and killed their monks and clergy.
Undoubtedly, Charlemagne's exertions caused a revival of sacred and profane studies through the region of the present France and Rhenish Germany.
At that he accepts the kingdom as a sacred charge in defence of which he is to die.
He tells us that when he was baptized the lord Balianus of Sydon, a great baron of France, a retainer of the Emperor Frederick's, "lifted me from the sacred font.
There was nothing novel in his views regarding knowledge, sacred and profane.
In sacred learning they might read the Scriptural Commentaries of Rabanus Maurus or Walafrid Strabo, or study the works of Augustine.
What knowledge, sacred and profane, came to the Anglo-Saxons with Christianity?
Intellectually considered, it may be said to have begun when Charles palpably evinced his interest in sacred and liberal studies by calling Alcuin and other scholars to his Court about the year 781.
They played a most important role in the transmission of learning, sacredand profane, in Latin form.
I promise thee, brother, and will keep my word, to preserve a sacred silence as to thy praiseworthy compliance, and will remit twofold whatever thou dost demand.
As a part of this sacred science, the students apparently were taught something of Canon and Roman law and of Charlemagne's Capitularies.
They regarded those Christian mysteries, of which they were stewards, just as the Augur Cicero and the high Pontiff Caesar regarded the Sibylline books and the pecking of the sacred chickens.
Should we not then say that the master had only fulfilled a sacred obligation of duty?
On the contrary, it is one of his most sacredduties to point out clearly the errors of those whose general conduct he admires.
Racine, who was just dead, had passed the close of his life in writing sacred dramas; and Dacier was seeking for the Athanasian mysteries in Plato.
They all lie under the restraints of the same sacred profession.
Without a pretext, without a provocation, in defiance of the most sacred engagements, he had attacked the helpless ally whom he was bound to defend.
They knew how often he had employed the keys of the Church to release himself from the most sacred engagements, and its wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews.
Gregory the Thirteenth exerted himself not only to imitate but to surpass Pius in the severe virtues of his sacred profession.
Parliamentary power, to investigate and bring forth to the world every circumstance of such a malady as is ever held sacred to secrecy in the most private families!
Finally, in the category of Sacred Art come two well-known pictures, both in public galleries, and both accredited to Giorgione.
Passages in the "Sacred and Profane Love" of the Borghese Gallery are curiously recalled, but the National Gallery picture is clearly the work of a mature and experienced hand, and not of any young artist.
Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love.
The birth of her daughter, embryo copy of her Raymond, filled up the measure of her content, and produced a sacred and indissoluble tie between them.
They pressed round their leader, as if to shield him, while they loudly bestowed on him every sacred denomination and epithet of worship.
I did so, that I might kiss the dear and sacred earth he trod.
Most men ruthlessly destroy the sacred veil, with which the female heart is wont to adorn the idol of its affections.
But there was a fearlessness and frankness about her, which said that she would not encroach on another's liberty, but held her own sacred and unassailable.
If we went to Italy, to sacred and eternal Rome, we might with greater patience submit to the decree, which had laid her mighty towers low.
Then there had been the work of cleansing to the strictest purity every object in the sacred chamber, and of removing from it every trace of common daily occupation.
They're not to be come near by the hatchet, though; this is a sacred grove.
It was enough to make Adam feel that he was in a great temple, and that the distant chant was a sacred song.
Mrs. Poyser duly seconded the invitation, for she would have held it a deep disgrace not to make her neighbours welcome to her house: personal likes and dislikes must not interfere with that sacred custom.
That was a demonstration that work on sacred days was a wicked thing; and with wickedness of any sort Martin Poyser was quite clear that he would have nothing to do, since money got by such means would never prosper.
A grin of delight broke over Tom's face as the plate was set down before him, between his knife and fork, which he held erect, as if they had been sacred tapers.
The Blackmore twins had petitioned for Mary and Anne's room, promising upon their sacred honor to be models of behavior; and Miss King and Miss Wallace were considering their request.
For as beautiful as is the story of the risen Christ, we do not keep Easter sacred merely by the remembrance of that story.
O sacred flowers of faith and hope, As sweetly now as then Ye bloom on many a birchen slope, In many a pine dark glen.
If in the meantime there is anything that you wish to tell me, to make doubly sure, it will be received as a most sacred confidence.
Your friends made the funds and incomes of Trades Unions sacred against claims and taxes of every kind a few years ago, and we rank as a Trade Union.
Next to these paintings, and certainly several years before the Three Ages and the Sacred and Profane Love, the writer is inclined to place the Bishop of Paphos (Baffo) recommended by Alexander VI.
Titian, in the Sacred and Profane Love, as for identification we must still continue to call it, strives to keep close to the main lines of his story, in this differing from Giorgione.
But to turn now once more to the series of our master's Holy Families and Sacred Conversations which began with La Zingarella, and was continued with the Virgin and Child with SS.
She came because she knew that it was a sacred duty which she owed to the memory of her mother.
You've built my life on a lie, destroyed my very identity in a breath, torn down all the sacred idols of my girlhood and young womanhood and ground them under your feet.
That calamity was produced by a man's showing a woman the mystic turndun, a native sacred toy.
Pedro, being afraid of the woods, decided to lie just inside the church door; besides, that being a more sacred place, he felt sure that God would favor him even more than Juan.
It was, moreover, a day for the assembling of the people, to throw a Baling (a sacred figure of dough or paste) under the guidance of the Tangari.
Hawks were sacred to Ra; lions were emblems of Horus, wolves of Anubis, hippopotami of Set.
Thus Apis, the sacred bull of Memphis, was the representative of Osiris; the cow was sacred to Isis, and to Athor her mother.
Like Plato and Xenophon, they recorded the sayings of their master, and his maxims and arguments preserved in their works were afterward added to the national collection of the sacred books called the 'Nim Classes.
A religion which was held sacred in one place and ridiculed in another, before the eyes of the same people, could not in the end but yield to what was better.
These were the Penates, or familiar household gods, the guardians of the home, whose fire on the sacred hearth was perpetually burning, and to whom every meal was esteemed a sacrifice.
Buddha travels slowly to the sacred city of Benares, converting by the way even Brahmans themselves.
Hestia (Roman Vesta) presided over the private hearths and homesteads of the Greeks, and imparted to them a sacred character.
What the esoteric wisdom really was we can only conjecture, since there are no sacred books or writings that have come down to us, like the Indian Vedas and the Persian Zend-Avesta.
Among the Greeks there were no sacred books like the Hindu Vedas or Hebrew Scriptures, in which the people could learn duties and religious truths.
That many of our modern sacred solos and anthems fail in this latter respect must be evident to any one who has given the matter any thought whatever.
All kinds of music are suitable forsacred use that do not raise secular associations.
All this is especially to be noted in performances of sacred music, in which no time is taken between the numbers for applause.
It breathed the very soul of England,--of this sacred long-descended land of ours.
A score ofsacred names had beckoned us, the haunts of the master.
Bless his heart, in a momentary panic of modesty at the thought of all hisacred plots laid bare, the heavenly man tries to scare us away.
As the passengers poured down the slanting gangway, all bearing the unmistakable air and stamp of superiority that marks those who have just left the sacred soil of England, he scanned the faces with an eye of keen regard.
To him his pen is as sacred as the scalpel to the surgeon.
Will you allow all you have considered sacred to be despised, and yourselves to be insulted by the tyrant and his Minister?
But tell me how you would wish me to act, for against the sacred life of his Majesty will I not lift up my hand.
Your Majesty's sacredlife had nearly fallen a sacrifice to some unknown traitors.
In this will he commit no sin, as I have been assured by Heaven itself, in the sacred person of one of its most devoted ministers.
You will perform good service to our holy order, and to our sacred religion," returned Father Jacinto.
He's a temple Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine; His soul's the deity that lodges there; Nor is the pile unworthy of the God.
The sacred banner of St. Cuthbert was again displayed, and the chivalry of the palatinate assisted at the famous battle of Nevil's cross, near Durham, in which the Scottish army was defeated and king David taken prisoner.
La Force and his companion would fain have assumed the sacred character of ambassadors, pretending they were coming with a summons to him to depart from the territories belonging to the crown of France.
Such dangers are common to all, but sacred persons have more to fear from them than ordinary people, so the precautions taken by them are proportionately stringent.
Amongst the Mundaris every village has its sacred grove, and "the grove deities are held responsible for the crops, and are especially honoured at all the great agricultural festivals.
Thus in the Hindoo Koosh a fire is kindled with twigs of the sacred cedar; and the Dainyal or sibyl, with a cloth over her head, inhales the thick pungent smoke till she is seized with convulsions and falls senseless to the ground.
Like the other gods of vegetation whom we have been considering, Dionysus was believed to have died a violent death, but to have been brought to life again; and his sufferings, death, and resurrection were enacted in his sacred rites.
They are generally broke, for fear they should come into the hands of laymen, for they believe religiously that if any layman should presume to eat his food out of these sacred dishes, it would swell and inflame his mouth and throat.
Sacred groves were common among the ancient Germans, and tree-worship is hardly extinct amongst their descendants at the present day.
But if the ordinary man is thus deterred by superstitious fear from partaking of various foods, the restraints of this kind which are laid upon sacred or tabooed persons, such as kings and priests, are still more numerous and stringent.
The Mundaris in Assam think if a tree in the sacred grove is felled, the sylvan gods evince their displeasure by withholding rain.
The priestly college of the Arval Brothers at Rome had to make expiation when a rotten bough fell to the ground in the sacred grove, or when an old tree was blown down by a storm or dragged down by a weight of snow on its branches.
They were generally broken, for it was believed that if any one else ate his food out of these sacred dishes his mouth and throat would become swollen and inflamed.
Teach them what a noble and sacred thing it is to use every member and organ of our body to the glory of the Creator.
The union of man and woman is a holy and sacred institution, however the union of Christ and the church is still a higher and more important work of God.
The tender heart of a child very often receives a deep and sacred impression by the Holy Spirit.
