Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 37
eauty of the child is, by the same traditions,continued into his manhood. He was, says the his-torian Justin (with the confusion socommon in Gentile representations),both as wise and as beautiful as hisfather Joseph. But the only pointdescribed in the Sacred narrative isone of singular and… … me, Moses. cised lips? — that is, slowand without words, stammer-ing and hesitating (so theSeptuagint strongly expresses it), like Demosthenes inhis earlier youth,—slow and without words, like the cir-cuitous orations of the English Cromwell, — his speechcontemptible, like the Apostle Paul. How…
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