Esther: The Hebrew-Persian QueenH.H. Bancroft & Company, 1859 - 353 pagini |
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Pagina xvi
... seems to me to be an ex- ceedingly correct and happy version . There are but few words that could possibly be improved . The only change I have introduced in the translation is to omit the division into chapters and verses , which ...
... seems to me to be an ex- ceedingly correct and happy version . There are but few words that could possibly be improved . The only change I have introduced in the translation is to omit the division into chapters and verses , which ...
Pagina xix
... seems to be flesh and blood - agitated with the same passions , hopes and fears , as ourselves - and yet , to bring this human , material , sinful man , so livingly before us , that while we feel that he is indeed an individual of the ...
... seems to be flesh and blood - agitated with the same passions , hopes and fears , as ourselves - and yet , to bring this human , material , sinful man , so livingly before us , that while we feel that he is indeed an individual of the ...
Pagina xxi
... seem to be repetitions , not so much of words as of ideas . If so , the reason is to be found , first , in the fact , that I have endeavored to follow the order and me- thod of the sacred narrative itself , and to present the thoughts ...
... seem to be repetitions , not so much of words as of ideas . If so , the reason is to be found , first , in the fact , that I have endeavored to follow the order and me- thod of the sacred narrative itself , and to present the thoughts ...
Pagina 26
... seems necessary to enable us to form something like a correct opinion con- cerning its institutions . All men of letters have admired her poets , Jami , Hafiz , Saadi and Firdusi ; but • ALEXANDER IN PERSIA . 27 Persia has been admired ...
... seems necessary to enable us to form something like a correct opinion con- cerning its institutions . All men of letters have admired her poets , Jami , Hafiz , Saadi and Firdusi ; but • ALEXANDER IN PERSIA . 27 Persia has been admired ...
Pagina 27
... ideas of trade , and his build- ing of cities and highways of travel and commerce . These remarks are made , not for the purpose of indorsing the wars of Alexander the Great , but because it seems to me , justice has rarely been done 2A.
... ideas of trade , and his build- ing of cities and highways of travel and commerce . These remarks are made , not for the purpose of indorsing the wars of Alexander the Great , but because it seems to me , justice has rarely been done 2A.
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 302 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.