They went much farther; they attempted to prove, and they succeeded, that in theory it ought to be so, from the particular nature of a House of Commons as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not.

Ceremonies practised on consulting oracles.

The school of Hermes Trismegistus, Who uttered his oracles sublime Before the Olympiads, in the dew Of the early dawn and dusk of Time, The reign of dateless old Hephaestus!

It is well that young persons cannot read these fatal oracles of Nature.

In the first rank are those false gods of the gentiles, which were adored heretofore in several idols, and gave oracles at Delphos, and elsewhere; whose prince is Beelzebub.

But I have heard say that prophetes means, not a foreteller, but an out-tellerone who declares the will of a deity, and interprets his oracles.

The very statues seemed as if they were about to walk; every wall had ears; and I looked up into the blue, cloudless sky, expecting to hear oracles.

This power of silencing oracles, and putting the devils to flight, is also attested by Arnobius, Lactantius, Prudentius, Minutius, Felix, and several others.

Never mind how many persons he murdered on the pretext that they had fulfilled the oracle.

" The Nigger had entered one of his black, brooding moods from which these men expected oracles.

He called to mind and expounded ancient oracles heretofore unintelligible: he had himself been told, and had disbelieved, that the happiest day of his own life would be that on which he should feel himself divested of immortality.

About a hundred yards from this temple is the cave in the rock from whence the priestess pronounced the oracle.

The custom of asking the oracle and of writing the answers on the bones spread over the borders of the Shang state and continued in some areas after the end of the dynasty.

The secret of the Conjunction on which so many fine heads had split, on which so many learned definitions were thrown away, as if it was its peculiar province and inborn virtue to announce oracles and formal propositions, and nothing else, like a Doctor of Laws, is here at once accounted for, inasmuch as it is clearly nothing but another part of speech, the pronoun, that, with a third part of speech, the noun, thing, understood.

"With all their poetry," he argues, "and all their usefulness, we can hardly feel astonished that the primitive races of mankind should have considered trees as the choicest gifts of the gods to men, and should have believed that their spirits still delighted to dwell among their branches, or spoke oracles through the rustling of their leaves."

Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and several other authors relate, that a herd of goats discovered the oracle of Delphos, or of the Pythian Apollo.

Besides, what memories are evoked in a cultivated mind by these grottoes which seem to have been chiselled by the hands of the gods and in which they were wont to render their oracles by the mouth of Trophonius.

Æneas, consequently, understanding the oracle founded there the Lavinian city, even if the ignorant do say Rome.

Æneas received an oracle to found the city on the spot where his companions should devour their own tables.

He was about fifty years old when he went to Paphlagonia, and visited a false oracle to detect the tricks of an Alexander who made profit out of it, and who professed to have a daughter by the Moon.

We adore mind; we glorify oracles.

It may be a descendant of those who guarded the oracles of God, who for a time preserved them for us.

This descent really is fitted to give one an idea of the descent to the shades below, and what added to the illusion was that when we arrived at the bottom of the descent and just at the entrance of the cave where the Sybil held her oracles, we discovered four fierce looking fellows with lighted torches in their hands standing at the entrance.

They represent the prophet's work between the years 592 and 586 B.C. (2) Chapters 25 to 32, include seven oracles regarding Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, and Egypt, the nations which had taken part in the destruction of Jerusalem or else, like Egypt, had lured Judah to its ruin.

221, n. 2; and Savage in St. James's Square, i. 164; 'school,' one of, i. 7, n. 1, 245, n. 3; iii. 230,261, n. 1, 369; influenced his writings, i. 222; qualified his mind to think, iii. 369, n. 3; 'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3; Shakespeare, i. 319, n. 4; talking to a 'blackguard boy,' iv.