| 1799 - 224 pages
...the kings of Persia, and alarmed for his safety, Nehemiah replied: — " Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,...place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ?" Neh. ii. 3. Nehemiah found favour in the sight of Artaxerxes... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 pages
...temple. When the idolatrous prince put this question to him, Why is thy countenance sad ? He replied, Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, iieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Nehem. ii. 2. 3. Daniel... | |
| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...$nd visage : and upon the king's asking why his countenance was so sad, he ingenuously answered, " Why should not my countenance " be sad, when the city,...place of my fathers' " sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof " are consumed with fire?" In the New Testament, besides the many instances of the... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...sorrow of heart. Then he was very sore afraid, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,...place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire. Then the king said unto him, For what dost thou make request... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pages
...should ofifoee the firofioaal I was going to make, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with * It was in November be... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1805 - 380 pages
...temple. When the idolatrous prince put this question to him, Why is thy countenance sad ? He replied, Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof 'are consumed with fire? Nehem. ii. 2. 3. Daniel... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 pages
...Observe Nehemiah, to whom his royal master put the question, Why is thy countenance sad ? said he, Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed wifh fire ? chap. ii. 2, &c. Consider... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...Nehemiah so quick, in the expressions of his sorrow to an uncertain ear ! Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, licth waste, and the gates thereof burnt with f re ? Not without an humble preface,... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, 3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : iply you ; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring vou to nought ; tteth waste, i and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ? 4 Then the king said unto me. For what... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...sorrow of heart. Then was Nehemiah sore afraid ; And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,...place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof consumed with fire? Then said the king unto him, For what dost thou make make request... | |
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