| Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 páginas
...surprised if Nero Number One had been reported to have said of the predicted deeds of Nero Number Three — "What! is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " Of the endless paintings time would fail me to tell. In fact we saw but part of the contents of... | |
| Charles Henry Ramsden - 1877 - 124 páginas
...consciences denied and bodies enervated by sinful indulgence — they would have exclaimed with Hazael, ' But what, is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? ' Alas ! in a downhill course, he of necessity runs the fastest who has started from the highest... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1877 - 602 páginas
...moral conduct of Hazael was foretold, in that cruelty he should be guilty of; on which Hazael says, " What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" The prophet speaks of the event as what he knew, and not what he conjectured, 2 Kings viii. 12.... | |
| Elizabeth Newton (novelist.) - 1878 - 334 páginas
...never misses prayer- meeting or chapel. He've paid me handsome ; shall I turn him out at last ? " " ' But what is thy servant, a dog, that he should do this thing?'" quoted the Revd. Jeremiah, piously. " Since he has been able to manage his own affairs," she continued,... | |
| William Webb Follett Synge - 1879 - 354 páginas
...Graham's genius, that had sent him his unexpected visitor ? CHAPTER X THE TEMPTATION. And Hazael said, " But, what ! is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing? " Second Book of Kings. MY readers will picture to themselves the raptures of the young lovers when... | |
| Orville Dewey - 1883 - 828 páginas
...and never set foot on the promised land ! What a sad result, alas ! of so many good sentiments, of so many good thoughts, of so many enthusiastic dreams...lives of many. What a mournful thing it is, indeed, to contemplate — nothing on earth so mournful : on the one hand, sentiments noble, powers divine, a... | |
| Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1883 - 376 páginas
...true that he was about to sit to Landseer, the celebrated animal painter, for his portrait, replied, " What! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?"—The Rev. Sydney Smith once said to a cobbler who was mending his shoe, when the great wit was... | |
| Mark Hopkins - 1886 - 338 páginas
...itself in society in such, results, that, if they had been foretold, the man himself would have said, " What ! is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " It does not follow, therefore, because a man cannot state to others, and perhaps does not even... | |
| Mark Hopkins (D.D.) - 1889 - 348 páginas
...itself in society in such results, that, if they had been foretold, the man himself would have said, " What ! is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " It does not follow, therefore, because a man cannot state to others, and perhaps does not even... | |
| Morton Bryan Wharton - 1889 - 330 páginas
...being asked why, said that he who was now so splendid a character would become a cruel man of blood. " What, is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " replied Hazael. Elisha simply said, " The Lord hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria."... | |
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