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Letter "P" » prison house
«A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
background, Background and, frees, House of, liberal, prison house, The Prison
«And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.»
«But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.»
«For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.»
«Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? / Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? / Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.»
«But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.»
«As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.»
«And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.»
«And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: / If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: / But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.»
«Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Heaven
| Keywords:
About us, infancy, prison house, shades of, The Prison
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