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-in the horse and ass.

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-crossing of the wild and domestic ass.

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At bottom he was all right and a good-hearted giant, without any harm in him, for it is no harm to bark, if one stops there and does not bite, and it is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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I've been an ass.

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Yes, that is all there is to it-I've been an ass."

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If you had manifested fatigue upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest surprise was to be again an ass, because the condition of intellect that can enable a person to be surprised and stirred by inert monotonousness is a-" "Now that is enough, Noel Rainguesson; stop where you are, before you get yourself into trouble.

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But Joan set herself the task of persuading him that the salvation of France took precedence of all minor things-even the commands of a sceptered ass; and she accomplished it.

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The Long Route--Pharaoh Pursues the Hebrews--The Sea Divided --The Passage through the Red Sea--The Destruction of the Fgyptians--The Song at the Sea-- The Awful Desert--The Heavenly Food--The Gathering of the Manna--Miriam' s Well--Aniaiek's War against Israel Amalek Defeated Jethro Installation of Elders-- Jethro Rewarded--The Time is at Hand--The Gentiles Refuse the Torah The Contest of the Mountains--The Torah Offered to Israel-- Israel Prepares for the Revelation--The Revelation on Mount Sinai--The First Commandment--The Other Commandments Revealed on Sinai-- The Unity of the Ten Commandments--Moses Chosen as Intermediator--Moses and the Angels Strive for the Torah--Moses Receives the Torah--The Golden Calf--Moses Blamed for Israel's Sin--The Punishment of the Sinners-- Moses Intercedes for the People--The Inscrutable Ways of the Lord--The Thirteen Attributes of God--The Second Tables--The Census of the People--The Erection of the Tabernacle Commanded--The Materials for the Construction of theTabernacle --Bezalel--The Ark with the Cherubim--The Table and the Candlestick--The Altar--The Symbolical Significance of the Tabernacle--The Priestly Robes--The Stones in the Breastplate--The Completion of the Tabernacle--The Setting up of the Tabernacle--The Consecration of the Priests--The Day of the Ten Crowns--The Interrupted Joy--The Gifts of the Princes--The Revelations in theTabernacle--The Cleansing of the Camp--The Lighting of the Candlestick--The Twelve Princes of the Tribes-- The Census of the Levites--The Four Divisions of the Levites--The Four Standards--Thc Camp--The BIasphemer and the Sabbath-breaker--The Ungrateful Multitude--The Flesh-pots of Egypt--The Appointment of the Seventy Elders--Eldad and Medad --The Quails--Aaron and Miriam Slander Moses--Miriam's Punishment--The Sending of the Spies--Significant Names--The Spies in Palestine--The Slanderous Report--The Night of Tears-- Ingratitude Punished--The Years of Disfavor--The Rebellion of Korah--Korah Abuses Moses and the Torah Moses Pleads in Vain with Korah--Korah and His Horde Punished--On and the Three Sons of Korah Saved--Israel Convinced of Aaron's Priesthood--The Waters of Meribah--Moses' Anger Causes His Doom--Edom's Unbrotherly Attitude toward Israel--The Three Shepherds--Preparing Aaron for Impending Death--Aaron's Death--The General Mourning for Aaron--The False Friends--The Brazen Serpent--At Arnon--Sihon, the King of the Amorites--The Giant Og--Moses' Speech of Admonition--Balak, King of Moab--Balaam, the Heathen Prophet--Balak's Messengers to Bahaam-- Balaam Accepts Balak's Invitation--Baiaam's Ass-- Balaam Runs into His Own Destruction--Balaam with Balak Balaam's Sacrifices Refused--Balaam Extols Israel--Balaam's Hopes Disappointed--Curses Turned into Blessings--Balaam's Wicked Counsel--Phinehas, Zealous for God--Twelve Miracles--Phinehas Rewarded--The Daughters of Zelophmehad The appointment of Joshua--Moses' Legacy to Joshua--Moses' last campaign--The Complete Annihilation of Midian--The Gruesome End of Balaam-- The Victorious Return from the War--Wealth that Bringeth Destruction--Moses' Death Irrevocably Doomed--Moses Prayer for Suspension of Judgment--God Tries to Comfort Moses Concerning His Death--The Intercessions for Moses--Moses Serves Joshua--The Last Day of Moses' Life--Moses Beholds the Future--Moses Meets the Messiah in Heaven--The Last Hours of Moses The Blessing of Moses--Moses Prays for Death--Samuel Chastised by Moses--God Kisses Moses' Soul--The Mourning for Moses--Samuel's Vain Search--Moses Excels All Pious Men.

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TOWARD ISRAEL THE THREE SHEPHERDS PREPARING AARON FOR IMPENDING DEATH AARON'S DEATH THE GENERAL MOURNING FOR AARON THE FAI.SE FRIENDS THE BRAZEN SERPENT AT ARNON SIHON, THE KING OF THE AMORITFS THE GIANT OG MOSES SPEECH OF ADMONITION BALAK, KING OF MOAB BALAAM, THE HEATHEN PROPHET BALAK'S MESSENGERS TO BALAAM BALAAM ACCEPTS BALAK'S INVITATION BALAAM'S ASS BALAAM RUNS INTO HIS OWN DESTRUCTION BALAAM WITH BALAK BALAAM'S SACRIFICES REFUSED BALAAM EXTOLS ISRAEL BALAAM'S HOPES DISAPPOINTED CURSES TURNED TO BLESSINGS BALAAM'S WICKED COUNSEL PHINEHAS, ZEALOUS FOR GOD TWELVE MIRACLES PHINEHAS REWARDED THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD THE APPOINTMENT OF JOSHUA MOSES' LEGACY TO JOSHUA MOSES LAST CAMPAIGN TIlE COMPLETE ANNIHILATION OF MIDIAN THE GRUSOME END OF BALAAM THE VICTORIOUS RETURN FROM TIlE WAR WEALTH THAT BRINGETH DESTRUCTION MOSES' DEATH IRREVOCABLY DOOMED MOSES PRAYER FOR SUSPENSION OF JUDGMENT GOD TRIES TO COMFORT MOSES CONCERING HIS DEATH THE INTERCESSIONS FOR MOSES MOSES SERVES JOSHUA THE LAST DAY OF MOSES' LIFE MOSES BEHOLDS THE FUTURE MOSES MEETS THE MESSIAH IN HEAVEN THE LAST HOURS OF MOSES THE BLESSING OF MOSES MOSES PRAYS FOR DEATH SAMAEL CHASTISED BY MOSES GOD KISSES MOSES' SOUL THE MOURNING FOR MOSES SAMAEL'S VAIN SEARCH MOSES EXCELS ALL PIOUS MEN The Legends of the Jews Volume III Bible Times and Characters from the Exodus to the Death of Moses THE LONG ROUTE The exodus would have been impossible if Joseph's bones had remained behind.

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Who ever heard any one say to an ass, 'Here is a measure of wheat; eat it, for we want to cut off they head?'

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When this woman set out to plow her field, Moses appeared and said: 'Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.'

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It is customary for anyone who works for the sanctuary to receive pay for his work, but I traveled to Egypt on my own ass, and took none of theirs, although I undertook the journey in their interests.

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[737] BALAAM'S ASS Balaam could hardly await the morning, rejoicing no less than Balak's messengers at God's consent to his journey to Balak, and still hoping that he might succeed in bringing disaster upon Israel.

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For when the ambassadors asked him why he had not chosen a horse rather than an ass for his journey, he answered that his saddle horse was in the pasture.

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Then the ass interrupted him, saying, "Am not I thine ass upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long?"

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God did this for two reasons, firstly because He feared that the heathens might worship this ass were she to stay alive; and secondly because God wanted to spare Balaam the disgrace of having people point to his ass and say, "This is she that worsted Balaam."

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Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiakim in fetters to all the cities of Judah, then he slew him, and, his rage still unabated, threw his corpse to the dogs after having stuck it into the carcass of an ass.

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That you have been, like a besotted old ass, all these years slowly forging a thunderbolt that any one may crush her with?

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To your Samson was given supernatural power, and when he broke the withes, and slew the thousands with the jawbone of an ass, and carried away the gate's of the city upon his shoulders, you were amazed-and also awed, for you recognized the divine source of his strength.

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But there are the whirring of locusts, the demoniac chuckle of the laughing jack-ass, the screeching of cockatoos and parrots, the hissing of the frilled lizard, and the buzzing of innumerable insects hidden under the dense undergrowth.

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If he should ever cross to the other side of the Ganges and get caught out and die there he would at once come to life again in the form of an ass.

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The Hindoo has a childish and unreasoning aversion to being turned into an ass.

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One could properly expect an ass to have an aversion to being turned into a Hindoo.

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But the Hindoo changed into an ass wouldn't lose anything, unless you count his religion.

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It is a state which other Hindoos reach by being born again and again, and over and over again into this world, through one re-incarnation after another-a tiresome long job covering centuries and decades of centuries, and one that is full of risks, too, like the accident of dying on the wrong side of the Ganges some time or other and waking up in the form of an ass, with a fresh start necessary and the numerous trips to be made all over again.

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All within the space of a single week it had made Jameson an illustrious hero in England, a pirate in Pretoria, and an ass without discretion or honor in Johannesburg; also it had produced a poet-laureatic explosion of colored fireworks which filled the world's sky with giddy splendors, and, the knowledge that Jameson was coming with it to rescue the women and children emptied Johannesburg of that detail of the population.

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Why I ever made such a sickening ass of myself, I can't think.

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[Contemptuously] Silly ass!

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You are aware that the offspring of the Ass and the Horse, or rather of the he-Ass and the Mare, is what is called a Mule; and, on the other hand, the offspring of the Stallion and the she-Ass is what is called a 'Hinny'.

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Then, if you look at the Hinny,-the result of the union of the Stallion and the she-Ass, then you find it is the Horse that has the predominance; that the head is more like that of the Horse, the ears are shorter, the legs coarser, and the type is altogether altered; while the voice, instead of being a bray, is the ordinary neigh of the Horse.

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Here, you see, is a most curious thing: you take exactly the same elements, Ass and Horse, but you combine the sexes in a different manner, and the result is modified accordingly.

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"Not their own photos, you ass!

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quoth God; pay for it and take it.--Nothing venture, nothing have.--Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less.--Who doth not work shall not eat.--Harm watch, harm catch.--Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them.--If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.--Bad counsel confounds the adviser.--The Devil is an ass.

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"I didn't know I was still such an ass," he thought.

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In the morning, I bought an old overcoat, and hired an ass to journey on, and near Feltre I bought a pair of boots.

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I have been assured, but can scarcely believe it, that he cured a consumptive patient of a secret disease by means of the milk of an ass, which he had submitted to thirty strong frictions of mercury by four sturdy porters.

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About a week later I heard a great noise in the street, and on putting my head out of the window I saw a woman stripped to the waist, and mounted on an ass, being scourged by the hangman, and hooted by a mob of all the biricchini in Bologna.

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In the morning, I bought an old overcoat, and hired an ass to journey on, and near Feltre I bought a pair of boots.

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You have described a callow fool, a self-sufficient ass, a mere human tumble-bug, stern in air, heaving at his bit of dung, imagining that he is remodeling the world and is entirely capable of doing it right.... That is what I was at 19-20.

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And I am proud to say I am the most conceited ass in the Territory.

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I saw, at once, what an ass I had been making of myself, and was accordingly confused and embarrassed.

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It takes a royal amount of cussing to make the thing go the first few days or a week, but by that time the dullest ass gets the hang of the thing, and after that no enrichments of expression are required, and said ass finds the stylographic a genuine God's blessing.

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For the average ass flings the thing out of the window in disgust the second day, believing it hath no virtue, no merit of any sort; whereas the lack lieth in himself, God of his mercy damn him.

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The "almost daily" assaults for two months consist of (1) adverse criticism of P. & P. from an enraged idiot in the London Athenaeum, (2) paragraphs from some indignant Englishman in the Pall Mall Gazette, who pays me the vast compliment of gravely rebuking some imaginary ass who has set me up in the neighborhood of Rabelais, (3) a remark about the Montreal dinner, touched with an almost invisible satire, and, (4) a remark about refusal of Canadian copyright, not complimentary, but not necessarily malicious; and of course adverse criticism which is not malicious is a thing which none but fools irritate themselves about.

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And I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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He is a gentleman; his backer, Mr. Kleinburg, is a gentleman, too, yet is not a Clemens--that is to say, he is not an ass.

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"During the next thirty million years the bird arrived, and the kangaroo, and by and by the mastodon, and the giant sloth, and the Irish elk, and the old Silurian ass, and some people thought that man was about due.

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Mind is plainly an ass, but it will be many ages before it finds it out, no doubt.

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And I am proud to say I am the most conceited ass in the Territory.

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I saw, at once, what an ass I had been making of myself, and was accordingly confused and embarrassed.

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For the average ass flings the thing out of the window in disgust the second day, believing it hath no virtue, no merit of any sort; whereas the lack lieth in himself, God of his mercy damn him.

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And I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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He is a gentleman; his backer, Mr. Kleinburg, is a gentleman, too, yet is not a Clemens--that is to say, he is not an ass.

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Mind is plainly an ass, but it will be many ages before it finds it out, no doubt.

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What a blind ass you are, Beetle!

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"I'm an ass, Stalky!" he said, guarding the afflicted part."

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I'm an ass."

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Oh, Turkey, don't be an ass!

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"Gloomy old ass!" said McTurk, deep in a book.

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But he is an ass.

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And we show him that we think he's an ass.

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"You ass!

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"Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and McTurk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-" "Ruskin isn't an ass," said McTurk.

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"Not the least good having a row with a master unless you can make an ass of him," said Stalky, extended at ease on the hearth-rug.

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"But he must be a putrid ass, know, to suppose at our time o' life we'd go and stuff birds like fags."

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"Hush, you ass!" hissed the Emperor of China.

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"Yes, you ass; but he saw he'd fetched you.

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with the ignoble herd, "if you get the houses well mixed up an' scufflin', it's even bettin' that some ass will start a real row.

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Stalky'd never have paid... Why, you ass!"

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Worst of all, they began at times to wonder whether Stalky & Co. had not some truth in their often-repeated assertions that Prout was a gloomy ass.

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"I never knew such an ass as you are for justifyin' yourself," said McTurk.

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"You are a funny ass!

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"More ass you for believin' me, then!" shrieked Stalky.

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You're a plain ass."

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The darkness had filled with whispers, the sound of trailing rugs, bare feet on bare boards, protests, giggles, and threats such as: "Be quiet, you ass!...

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"I want the quid changed, you ass.

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'Don't mind learnin' my drill, but I'm not goin' to ass about the country with a toy Snider.

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Oh, you fat old ass!"

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Tulke was not popular among them, and a few who had had experience of Stalky and Company doubted that he might, perhaps, have made an ass of himself.

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"You ass!

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It was a bit unfortunate, because an ass of a young Naick carried a frivolous blood-feud he'd inherited from his aunt into those hills, and the local gentry wouldn't volunteer into my corps.

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I want you to give thirty of them to my adjutant, who, though God's own ass, will need men this spring.

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[PLATO] The act of exploiting a terminal which someone else has absentmindedly left logged on, to use that person's account, especially to post articles intended to make an ass of the victim you're impersonating.

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With you a word is an omen, you call a sneeze an omen, a meeting an omen, an unknown sound an omen, a slave or an ass an omen.

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Come, beat him as I do, and put some life into him; he is as lazy as an ass.

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Aye, that he is a knight: and so might you have been too, if you had been aught else but an ass, as well as some of your neighbours.

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Wells then spoke of Lucius Apuleius and his Golden Ass, which contains the story of Cupid and Psyche, with other matter rich and rare, and went on to the romance of Heliodorus, Theagenes and Chariclea and in it the presiding deities of Love and Wine appear in all their pristine strength, youth, and grace, crowned and worshipped as of yore.

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This time it is the old ass!

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