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Or your hand shall be even as the hand of Jeroboam.

"And it came to pass, when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand which he put forth against him dried up, so that he could not put it in again.”—1 Kings, chap. xiii.

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As I have done, so God hath requited me.

"But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

"And Adoni-bezek said, Three-score and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me!"-The Book of Judges, chap. i.

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Though I cannot bequeath a moral legacy as striking as that of the Moorish king.

Abderame, or Abdalrahman the third, the great Caliph of Cordova, who left in his own hand this estimate of the value of earthly grandeur and felicity:-"Fifty years have I reigned. Riches, honours, pleasures, I have enjoyed them all-exhausted them all. The kings, my rivals, fear me, and envy me, yet esteem me. All that men desire has been lavished on me by heaven. this long space of apparent felicity I have calculated the number of days in which I have been really happy; they amount to fourteen. Mortals, learn how to appreciate greatness, the world, and life."

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