Esther: The Hebrew-Persian QueenH.H. Bancroft & Company, 1859 - 353 pages |
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... says , that the Holy Bible is " good Michael's Scripture , " and that " history is the Devil's Scripture . " No , the Bible is the word of the Lord , and history is but a record of how He governs the world . The great Bengel has truly ...
... says , that the Holy Bible is " good Michael's Scripture , " and that " history is the Devil's Scripture . " No , the Bible is the word of the Lord , and history is but a record of how He governs the world . The great Bengel has truly ...
Page xxi
... says Lord Bacon , " is the true and lawful end of aspiring . Merit and good works is the end of man's motion , and ... say , that I have complied with the wish of those who requested these lectures to be pub- lished , ( that they should ...
... says Lord Bacon , " is the true and lawful end of aspiring . Merit and good works is the end of man's motion , and ... say , that I have complied with the wish of those who requested these lectures to be pub- lished , ( that they should ...
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... say with Pliny , " Penes auctores sit fides . " While I believe them to be reliable and substantially correct , I beg that the authors themselves may be held respectively responsible . And while I have freely used all the authors within ...
... say with Pliny , " Penes auctores sit fides . " While I believe them to be reliable and substantially correct , I beg that the authors themselves may be held respectively responsible . And while I have freely used all the authors within ...
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... says " The Modern Traveller , " " the intrusive Turk or Mamlouk , the degraded Copt , or the miserable Fellah , are dwarfed beside the gigantic monuments of the past , and hardly appear to belong to a scene where art and nature seem ...
... says " The Modern Traveller , " " the intrusive Turk or Mamlouk , the degraded Copt , or the miserable Fellah , are dwarfed beside the gigantic monuments of the past , and hardly appear to belong to a scene where art and nature seem ...
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... says of the mountaineers of Elymais . Jeremiah ( xlix . 34 , 39 ) foretells the over- throw of Elam and its ... say that Cyrus ' mother was a Jewess , and on that account he was so favorably inclined to that remarkable people . For some ...
... says of the mountaineers of Elymais . Jeremiah ( xlix . 34 , 39 ) foretells the over- throw of Elam and its ... say that Cyrus ' mother was a Jewess , and on that account he was so favorably inclined to that remarkable people . For some ...
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Page 247 - The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made : in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth : the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Page 75 - But I am poor and needy ; yet the LORD thinketh upon me : Thou art my help and my deliverer ; Make no tarrying, O my God.
Page 240 - If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. For we are sold, I and my people to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Page 130 - And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Page 314 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Page 302 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Page 143 - Happy the man, who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer life ! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Page 329 - The men of grace have found Glory begun below; Celestial fruits on earthly ground From faith and hope may grow. 4 The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets.
Page 46 - In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Page 253 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.