 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...this agreeable situation of his aflairs, is the man contented ? No ; he immediately adds, ver. 13. " Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." Mordecai had denied him the respect and reverence which he expected, and this spoiled the enjoyment... | |
 | Abigail Mott - 1825 - 104 pages
...trifling a circumstance is capable of destroying that enjoyment which is built on pride and ambition. " All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." When he ceased speaking, his wife, who appears to have cherished the same dispositions with her husband,... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...wherein the Icing had promoted him, could yield him tranquillity and happiness. All this, said he, availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Mng's gate. What a slave and drudge is he, who is possessed with an inordinate love of the world !... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pages
...banquet, that she had prepared, but myself, and to-morrow am I invited unto her, also, with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's gate." III. Let us observe the evils of which ambition is always productive. Within the narrowest limits in... | |
 | 1826 - 320 pages
...banquet that she had prepared, but myself ; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also rvith the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. It is to no purpose to exempt some, even from real evils — they will be sure to conjure up imaginary... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am 1 invited unto her also with the king. 13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 14 ^f Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a J gallows be made of fifty cubits... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...banquet, that she had prepared, but myself, and to-morrow am I invited unto her, also, with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's gate." III. Let us observe the evils of which ambition is always productive. Within the narrowest limits in... | |
 | Andrew Thomson (of Bristol) - 1826 - 394 pages
...riches, his numerous offspring, and of the honours heaped upon him by the king and queen, he observed, " Yet all this availeth me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." Q. What advice did his friends give him ': A. They said, "Let a gallows be made fifty cuhits high,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...to-morrow also am I invited to her with the king." After all this .preamble, what is the conclusion] u Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew, sitting at the king's gate." 8 The sequel of Hainan's history, I shall not now pursue. It might afford matter for much instruction,... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1826 - 488 pages
...the throne of Persia, his happiness depended upon the homage which a despised Israelite withheld ? All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate. Few symptoms of a declining, or rebellious state of heart are more unequivocal, or more mournful, than... | |
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Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 
