| Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...AND THEY RENT EVERY ONE HIS MANTLE ; AND SPRINKLED DUST UPON THEIR HEADS TOWARDS HEAVEN:— SO THEY SAT DOWN WITH HIM UPON THE GROUND SEVEN DAYS, AND SEVEN NIGHTS; AND NONE SPAKE A WORD UNTO HIMj FOR THEY SAW THAT HIS GRIEF WAS VERY GREAT. THE firft expreffion of their grief was very natural... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...to the story of his admired CEdipus, for the artificial manner in which the recognition, eaaytn^irif is effected, emerging gradually from the incidents...confess, that this noble passage is equal, if not superior, to that celebrated description of parental sorrow in Jischylus; where that venerable father... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 240 pages
...most virtuous and upright, who, for the trial and exercise of his fortitude and patience, is hurled down from the summits of felicity, into the lowest...confess, that this noble passage is equal, if not superior to that celebrated description of parental sorrow in Aschylus; where the venerable father... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...which Jell u/wn their heads ; an usual token of mourning and sympathy 13 with the afflicted ; So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights till his grief was a little assuaged^ and none spake a word unto him, by way of argument or dispute... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 334 pages
...behaviour of hi* friends, who when they first discovered him in this altered condition, destitute, affixed, tormented, ' sat down with him upon the ground seven...confess, that this noble passage is equal, if not superior, to that celebrated description of parental sorrow in ./Eschylus': where that venerable father... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...12 They rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. II. 13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. They testified their exceeding sorrow for his great affliction, by rending their clothes, and strewing... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward lieaven. 13 So they Ifye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out : fur they saw that his grief was very great CHAR III. 1 Job curse th the day and services of his.... | |
| 1858 - 860 pages
...him not, they lifted up their voices and wept, and they sat down with him on the ground, and no man spake a word unto him ; for they saw that his grief was very great (Job ii. 12, 13). As I entered the room he stretched out his hand to greet me, and for some minutes... | |
| Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...to find him so covered over with ulcers, that they could not know him. Ver. 13. So they s.-it dawn with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights : and none spate a word unto him, for they saw that his grief was very great.] And when they approached nearer... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 452 pages
...following : ' They were all with one accord in one place,' Acts ii. 1. ' So they sat down with him seveVi days' and seven nights, and none spake a word unto...him : for they saw that his grief was very great,' Job. ii. 13. ' Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of God — And I sat... | |
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