She prefers to jog along in the old rut, contentedly turning out chromolithographic sunrises such as they give away at the tea stores, contentedly staging the most violent and improbable melodramas; andsturdy old Philistine that she isshe even now permits her children to fall in love in the most primitive fashion.

For at work of this sort the old Philistine knows that she is an adept; and she has rejoiced in the skill of her hands, with a sober workmanly joy, since Cain first went a-wooing in the Land of Nod.

Of course, I am rather a Philistine, and I grate on him at timesthat is, I used to, but he says I have improved wonderfully.

And down here, as you see, we are terribly Philistine.

Culture and Anarchy (1869) contains most of the termsculture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many otherswhich are now associated with Arnold's work and influence.

"Philistine" refers to the middle classes,narrow-minded and self-satisfied people, according to Arnold, whom he satirizes with the idea of opening their minds to new ideas.

Let no one laugh, either, at least in contempt, as the average British Philistine will think himself bound to do, at the fact that these men had not only no balance at their bankers, but no bankers with whom to have a balance.

For none are more perfect gentlemen, or more free from the base modern belief that money makes the man; and I doubt not that a member of the old Cabildo of San Josef in slops was far better company than an average British Philistine in trousers.

Nay, the regular Philistine does the direct opposite of contemplatinghe spies.

The great question now is, Will the promise and the vision ever be realized, or will they fade out and disappear and leave him a Philistine?

And, most of all, where the sufferer is not merely a genius, but a saint; persecuted, perhaps, abroad by vulgar tradesmen and Philistine bishops, and snubbed at home by a stupid wife, who is quite unable to appreciate his magnificent projects for regenerating all heaven and earth; and only, humdrum, practical creature that she is, tries to do justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly with her God?

As he came before the two camps, he cried out: "I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together!" When David came up and heard the story, he said: "Who is this Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

His brows are violently contracted, the nostrils tense and quivering, the eyes fixed keenly on the distant Philistine.

They looked at one another with earnest blue eyes, and remarked that here was evidently a Philistine who knew not Cimabue and cared not a jot for Giotto; and the first said: "Sir, methinks he who would climb the golden stairs should do so step by step;" and the second said, sadly: "We are but scapegoats, truly, being cast forth by the vindictive Victorians of our day.

There are resources in us that naturalism with its literal and legal virtues never recks of, possibilities that take our breath away, of another kind of happiness and power, based on giving up our own will and letting something higher work for us, and these seem to show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine.

Bred to win, confident that the German system was the right system of life, it could imagine the German Michael as the missionary of the system, converting the Philistine with machine-guns.

Mr. Bottle's mind, qua mind; the rowdy Philistine Adolescens Leo, Esq.; Dr. Russell, of the Times, mounting his war-horse; the tale of how Lord Lumpington and the Rev. Esau Hittall got their degrees at Oxford; and many another ironic thrust which made the reader laugh 'while the hair was yet brown on his head,' may well make him laugh still, 'though his scalp is almost hairless, and his figure's grown convex.'

w Juv. .45 2.00 Little Journeys, and Philistine .............. m 2.00 1.00 Live Stock Journal ......................

Sun. Ind. 1.00 3.00 Philadelphia Record .............. 6 issues Ind. 3.00 1.00 Philistine, E. Aurora, N.Y. .................. m .90 Philistine in class A with Little Journeys for 1905 ................

Sun. Ind. 1.00 3.00 Philadelphia Record .............. 6 issues Ind. 3.00 1.00 Philistine, E. Aurora, N.Y. .................. m .90 Philistine in class A with Little Journeys for 1905 ................

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But as its occupants were probably taking photographs of our most secret fastnesses, artistic appreciation was dimmed by righteous wrathwrath which turned to profound gratification when a philistine British plane appeared in the blue and engaged the glittering stranger in battle.

So the impatient Angus was bidden to apply for a Commissionhis attention during the period of waiting being directed by his parent to the study of the campaigns of Joshua, and the methods employed by that singular but successful strategist in dealing with the Philistine.

GOLIATH, a Philistine giant of Gath slain by David with pebbles from a brook by a sling (1 Sam. xvii.).

Mr. Matthew Arnold might as well have said: 'The British Philistine has no knowledge of God.