| 单词 | pisgah-hill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPisgah-hill 2. A point affording an overview or glimpse of a current or future situation. Also in †Pisgah-hill. ΚΠ 1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 6 Here's a Pisgah-Hill whereon to stand To take a prospect of Wit's holy Land. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 133 The top of our philosophic Pisgah, whence the contemplative eye is saluted with the..prospect of a bright and glorious world. 1798 Sound Alarm 22 From the Pisgah of the Directory, this country is pointed out to them as the promised land, which is to furnish the reward of all their toils. 1806 Irish Independence 81 The political Pisgah is before us, and we have only to ascend and gain the promised land! 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 182 It was a Pisgah, not of prospect, but of retrospect. 1911 J. H. Rose William Pitt & Great War i. 27 He was not a seer mounted on some political Pisgah, but a pioneer struggling through an unexplored jungle. 2001 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 7 475 By ceding the legal high ground the Developer gained a moral Pisgah. < as lemmas |
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