{"query": "Easton: So", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_040560953580", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_iv: how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many"}, {"id": "card_n_21350feef1ac", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_07: The Voice of the Beloved Above all things the priest of God must draw nigh, w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Beloved Above all things the priest of God must draw nigh, with all humility of heart and supplicating reverence, with full faith and pious desire for the honour of God, to celebrate,"}, {"id": "card_n_08a0278867fd", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §317: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. Why art thou so tart, my brother? Esau sold his birthright, and that for a mess of pottage, and that birthright was his greatest jewel; and if he, why might not Little-faith do so too? CHR. Esau"}, {"id": "card_n_884f17aa16cc", "title": "Easton: Locust", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law they"}, {"id": "card_n_1e5f8bc1fe31", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxxvii: How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary a disposition? For that he died more gloriously, that he disputed with the Sophists more subtilty; that he watched in the f"}, {"id": "card_n_0fca87115642", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_13: So long as we live in the world, we cannot be without trouble and trial.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So long as we live in the world, we cannot be without trouble and trial. Wherefore it is written in Job, The life of man upon the earth is a trial.(1) And therefore ought each of us to give heed conce"}, {"id": "card_n_53ba4a2e7a5d", "title": "Easton: Salutation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Eastern modes of salutation are not unfrequently so prolonged as to become wearisome and a positive waste of time. The profusely polite Arab asks so many questions after your health, your happiness, "}, {"id": "card_n_773153fe2b52", "title": "Easton: Olves, Mount of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7; Ezek. 11:23; Zech. 14:4), from which it is separated by the valley of Kidro"}, {"id": "card_n_38e08b8b0a3d", "title": "Easton: Helkath-hazzurim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plot of the sharp blades, or the field of heroes, (2 Sam. 2:16). After the battle of Gilboa, so fatal to Saul and his house, David, as divinely directed, took up his residence in Hebron, and was there"}, {"id": "card_n_2760b2e8c462", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxix: If so be that the Gods have deliberated in particular of those things that sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If so be that the Gods have deliberated in particular of those things that should happen unto me, I must stand to their deliberation, as discrete and wise. For that a God should be an imprudent God, i"}, {"id": "card_n_1a66a9b93398", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_viii: Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so proj...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life. And as for death, if there b"}, {"id": "card_n_1af3d35a52d2", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §89: So he took Christian by the hand again, and led him into a chamber, where there was one...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So he took Christian by the hand again, and led him into a chamber, where there was one rising out of bed; and as he put on his raiment, he shook and trembled. Then said Christian, Why doth this man t"}, {"id": "card_n_1c0d3a9c4ba6", "title": "Easton: Charity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 13), the rendering in the Authorized Version of the word which properly denotes love, and is frequently so rendered (always so in the Revised Version). It is spoken of as the greatest of the t"}, {"id": "card_n_f9ac4e580107", "title": "Easton: So", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that "}, {"id": "card_n_180bd755dd3c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxv: There is, who without so much as a coat; and there is, who without so much as...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is, who without so much as a coat; and there is, who without so much as a book, doth put philosophy in practice. I am half naked, neither have I bread to eat, and yet I depart not from reason, s"}, {"id": "card_n_26fd7b06fd21", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_142: As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. [\"So much they talked, so very little said.\" Churchill, Rosciad, 550"}, {"id": "card_n_3bf1a488b550", "title": "Easton: Bowl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Ex. 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered “cup” (Gen. 44:2, 12, 16), "}, {"id": "card_n_4a6eec8fa59f", "title": "Easton: Marah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, u"}, {"id": "card_n_337f2a90f8ff", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §36: Now, I saw in my dream, that by this time Pliable was got home to his house again, so t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now, I saw in my dream, that by this time Pliable was got home to his house again, so that his neighbours came to visit him; and some of them called him wise man for coming back, and some called him f"}, {"id": "card_n_3cfe5051d3f2", "title": "Easton: Stoics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek word stoa i.e., a “porch” or “portico,” where they have been called “the Pharisees of Greek paganism.” The founder of the Stoics was Ze"}]}