 | Prosper Louis P. Guéranger - 1870 - 644 pages
...son Esau or no. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said : The voice, indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him, he said: Art... | |
 | Religious reading-book - 1870 - 176 pages
...and prove whether you are my son Esau or not.' And when Isaac felt him, he said, ' The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.' Then he blessed him, and said, ' Art thou my son Esau ?' And Jacob deceived him again, and said,... | |
 | Italy - 1871 - 248 pages
...say, in reply to whatever clamorous professions of democracy, with the bewildered patriarch of old, " The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Not only, however, is this the American principle, but it is the true principle of the State.... | |
 | Henry Formby - 1871 - 330 pages
...Esau or not.' He came near to his father; and when ho had felt him, Isaac said, ' The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau ;' and he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then, blessing him, he said, 'Art... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 806 pages
...remarkable, men who speak the language of modern philosophy nevertheless think the thoughts of the schoolmen. "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Every day I hear " Cause," " Law," " Force," " Vitality," spoken of as entities, by people who... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...men who speak the language of modern philosophy, nevertheless think the thoughts of the schoolmen. " The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Every day I hear " Cause," " Law," " Force," " Vitality," spoken of as entities, by people who... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1874 - 974 pages
...position of Isaac with Jacob standing at his side in the skins of a kid of the goats, counterfeiting Esau. The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. Perhaps now and then a man may stand out from the crowd, as Mr. Fonblanque once did in the Examiner,... | |
 | John George Wenham - 1875 - 232 pages
...son Esau, or not. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said : The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob ; but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him, he said : Art... | |
 | Cobden Club (London, England) - Local government - 1875 - 472 pages
...country is done according to constitutional types, the governing business according to absolute types. The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. The law we shall have to deal with is the first serious attempt that has been made to bridge... | |
 | Francis Nathan Peloubet - Bible - 1880 - 274 pages
...punishment for his crime, when his father passed his hands over him. "The voice," said the old man, " is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." But he was satisfied : the feel of the hands, and fresh smell of the raiment, prevailed over... | |
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Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 
