 | 1799 - 224 pages
...peculiar favour. Amidst all this honour, however, one thing mortified him : " All this," said he, " availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." MORDECAI AT THE KING'S GATE. It has been intimated that Mordecai held some office at the Persian court.... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto •aer also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing...I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Then said Zeresh his wife, and all his friends unto Mm, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1803 - 472 pages
...and every one bowed the knee to him, except Mordecai. [r] Yet, says he to his friends in confidence, all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sittitig at the king's gate. M. Racine did not forget this ch> cumstance, and has made a very happy... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 pages
...let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself ; and tomor13 row am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all...I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate ; to see him continue his place at court, is as odious a» 14 if I had lost my all. Then said Zeresh... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pages
...let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomor13 row am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Morclecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate ; to see him continue his place at court, is as odious... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 436 pages
...Haman said moreover, Tea, Estlier the queen let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared, but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also with the king."] Athenaius mentions it as a peculiar honour, which no Grecian ever had before or after, that Artaxerxes... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...both with the king and queen ; and, at last, after all his sunshine, sets in this cloudy epilogue, Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. It is seldom seen, that God allows, even to the greatest darlings of the world, a perfect contentment.... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - 474 pages
...resentment ; and was at that moment stung vn' by disappointment, and torn by rage beyond what he could bear. All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the "Jew sitting at the Kings gate. Had this been a soliloquy of Raman's within himself, it would have been a sufficient discovery... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...platted the scourge under which ha writhes. Let us go back to the best of books for the next example. "All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." All what ? Almost everything that heart could desire. Haman had marvellous riches, "a multitude of... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...Haman said moreover. Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she -had prepared but myself; and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king. 13 Yet all this avaHeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 14... | |
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Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. 
