The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. Talmud. Division of Mishna, as translated by DR. A. S. BETTELHEIM. Religious zeal leads to cleanliness, cleanliness to purity, purity to godliness, godliness to humility to the fear of sin. RABBI PINHASBEN-JAÏR -Commentary on the lines from the Talmud. See also Talmudde Jerusalem, by SCHWAB. IV. 16. Commentary on the treatise Schabbath. SCHUL Sentences of Proverbes du Talmud et du Midrasch. 463. See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft LONGFELLOW-Christus. The Golden Legend. 21 By unseen hands uplifted in the light LONGFELLOW-Michael Angelo. Pt. II. 2. 22 But here by the mill the castled clouds 23 Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud 24 There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. MILTON Comus. L. 223. |