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" It is the philosopher in the hay-field ; the hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob. "
The Medical Times and Gazette - Page 239
1881
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 14

1848 - 780 pages
...caricature; while the usual richness of imagination and music of expression are seldom exhibited : " the hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob." This exaggeration itself excited doubt, which was of course laid aside when we found that we had no...
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A New and Complete History of the Holy Bible as Contained in the Old and New ...

Robert Sears - 1844 - 702 pages
...his aged father, who, feeling the hairy skin on his hands and neck, exclaimed, with great surprise, " The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob." He then put the question to him forcibly, saying, " Art thou my very son Esau ?" To which Jacob, without...
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A New and Complete History of the Holy Bible: As Contained in the Old and ...

Robert Sears - 1845 - 688 pages
...his aged father, who, feeling the hairy skin on his hands and neck, exclaimed, with great surprise, " The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob." He then put the question to him forcibly, saying, " Art thou my very sou Esau ?" Ta which Jacob, without...
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Switzerland and the Swiss Churches: Being Notes of a Short Tour, and Notices ...

William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 364 pages
...they believe and chicane. With the former the hands and the voice are both Esau's; with the latter the hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob. Whatever differences, however, may obtain between the different Catholic Cantons as compared with each...
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Mordaunt Hall; Or, A September Night: A Novel, Volume 3

Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1849 - 312 pages
...is that all ?" cried Gideon, raising his head up. " I never did in my life see anything so like! ' The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob.' Why, that's just Miriam, now, when she would say, ' Is that all?' to one of my cock-and-bull stories....
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The Presbyterian Quarterly Review, Volume 5

Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1857 - 722 pages
...professedly Presbyterian; like the trembling patriarch of old, they would exclaim, " The hands, indeed, are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob," the supplanter! Further, they were strong believers in what we would denominate "organic Christianity,"...
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Homeless, or, A poet's inner life [tr. by the author].

Meïr Aron Goldschmidt - 1861 - 328 pages
...Emilie ? Impossible ! — although, as he might have said, borrowing a simile from the the Bible, " The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of another." But whose is this voice ? How could he help believing that it was his childhood's Fylgie...
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The Journal of Philology, Volume 2

William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson - 1869 - 388 pages
...out-spoken, stalwart elder brother were being counterfeited and supplanted by a wily younger one. " The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob." We will now proceed to consider the syntax of modern Greek somewhat more particularly, and that we...
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An Illustrated History of the Holy Bible: Being a Connected Account of the ...

John Kitto - 1869 - 798 pages
...his aged father, who, feeling the hairy skin on his hands and neck, exclaimed, with great surprise, "The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob." He then put the question to him forcibly, saying, ' ' Art thou my very son Esau ? " To which Jacob,...
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The Modern Greek Language in Its Relation to Ancient Greek

Martin Geldart - 1870 - 258 pages
...out-spoken, stalwart elder brother were being counterfeited and supplanted by a wily younger one. ' The hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob.' We will now proceed to consider the syntax of modern Greek somewhat more particularly, and that we...
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