| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1873 - 462 pages
...himself above taking an unfair advantage over any man ! His feeling on the subject was akin to that of Hazael, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" His feelings, disturbed on this one point, shook his judgment off its balance on another. The resolution... | |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1873 - 462 pages
...himself above taking an unfair advantage over any man ! His feeling on the subject was akin to that of Hazael, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" His feelings, disturbed on this one point, shook his judgment off its balance on another. The resolution... | |
| Mrs. Mary Stoddard Johnson - 1875 - 548 pages
...be destroyed. I now shudder, perhaps, at the thought of committing wickedness, and am ready to say with Hazael, ' Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing? ' All young persons have formed at some time resolutions of living above the common mass of mankind,... | |
| William Houghton - 1879 - 276 pages
...Egypt., iii. 33.) Of the dog as mentioned in the Bible, I need say but little. The question asked by Hazael, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ? " expresses the feeling which the Jews entertained towards this animal. They made no use of the dog... | |
| Rev. A. C. Baldwin - 1880 - 282 pages
...yield to temptation, and again, partially at least, become a willing captive to Satan," he exclaims with Hazael, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" It seems so unreasonable, and so sinful to depart from Christ, and serve the god of this world, that... | |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1882 - 472 pages
...himself above taking an unfair advantage over any man ! His feeling on the subject was akin to that of Hazael, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" His feelings, disturbed on this one point, shook his judgment off its balance on another. The resolution... | |
| 1883 - 614 pages
...years ago had he been told that he would ever thus dishonour the Sacrament, he would have answered with Hazael, ' Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing 1 ' Nor did his ungenerous conduct towards Raymond please Claude now ; he felt that he had insulted... | |
| 114 pages
...we most value, who would have once said, had they been told what they would come to, in the words of Hazael, ' Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? ' In the beautiful descriptions of ' wisdom ' we read the contrast of pure influence in early life... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1884 - 610 pages
...consigned to felons' cells. David was no stripling when he committed his great transgression. Said Hazael, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ? " Yet he did it ! (2 Kings viii. 13, &c.) Peter rejected Christ's warning as incredible. Therefore... | |
| W. Harris - 1884 - 466 pages
...foretold by Nathan how he would act in the matter of Uriah, he would have answered him in the words of Hazael, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " — Dean ¿loss. Vers. 5-7. I. Men as sinners are frequently ignorant of their own characters.... | |
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