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According to my father, you stole my birthright from me, you rascal, although that wasn’t your fault.
"Shall he part with his birthright like Esau, because he is hungry?
1, declares that “immediatelie upon the Dissolution225 and Decease of Elizabeth late Queene of England, the Imperiall Crowne of the Realme of England, and of all the Kingdomes Dominions and Rights belonging to the same, did by inherent Birthright and lawfull undoubted Succession, descend and come to your moste excellent Majestie, as beinge lineallie justly and lawfullie next and sole Heire of the Blood Royall of this Realme as is aforesaid.
A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.
And we cannot expect to negotiate our way out of continual wars either, because we blindly let corporations sell our birthright for a mess of oil and silicon chips--they use up all the bargaining chips.
Edom: (red) the name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright to the latter for a meal of lentil pottage.
In the first place, it is the savage sacrificing all his possessions for a trinket, and then repenting and weeping, it is Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage, and afterwards wishing to cancel the bargain, it is the civilized workman laboring in insecurity, and continually demanding that his wages be increased, neither he nor his employer understanding that, in the absence of equality, any salary, however large, is always insufficient.
But he who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage existed, and Judas Iscariot existed, and Castlereagh existed, and this man exists!’ Here, a brief press and confusion near the stage, ended in the man himself standing at the orator’s side before the concourse.
This, the oldest song of the Egyptians (dating back to the first dynasty), was symbolical of the passing away of life, and was sung in connection with that gruesome custom of bringing in, towards the end of a banquet, an effigy of a corpse to remind the guests that death is the birthright of all mankind, a custom which was adopted later by the Romans.
The most profound and capacious minds of Rome and Greece were never able to reach the idea, at once so general and so simple, of the common likeness of men, and of the common birthright of each to freedom: they strove to prove that slavery was in the order of nature, and that it would always exist.
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are.
Jacob signified a supplanter, because he was to obtain the birthright of his elder brother.
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