An Abridgment of the Apocrypha. By Caroline MaxwellChapple; Hailes, 1828 - 132 pages |
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Achior affliction amongst Angel Anna answered Antiochus Apocrypha Arphaxad Assyrian army attended Babylon Bagoas beauty behold Bethulia blessing to Tobit brethren Brother Azarias brought called Tobias captain cause children of Israel city of Media command conduct continued Cyrus Daniel Darius declare distress dreadful duties earth Eastcheap Ecbatane elders Eleazer elephants Elymais enemies entertainment entreated Esdras evil eyes father fear feast Gabael gave give gold hand hath head of Holofernes heard heart heaven honour husband instantly Jerusalem Jews Joacim Judas Judas Maccabeus Judea Judith kindred king of Assyria king's Lord Maccabees maid maketh Mattathias mercy mind Moses mountains mourning multitude Nineve northern storm observation Persia priests princes propriety Raguel Raphael reign religion reproach riably followed Sara servants soon sorrow Susannah talents of silver temple ten talents tent thee things thou hast took truth victory wept whilst wife wisdom woman young
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Page 73 - They shall not be sought for in public counsel, Nor sit high in the congregation: They shall not sit on the judges' seat, Nor understand the sentence of judgment: They cannot declare justice and judgment; And they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
Page 72 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 73 - So doth the potter sitting at his work, And turning the wheel about with his feet, Who is alway carefully set at his work, And maketh all his work by number; He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace : All these trust to their hands: And every one is wise in his work.
Page 68 - Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fair speaking tongue will increase kind greetings. Be in peace with many: nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand. If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him. For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity and strife, will discover thy reproach.
Page 109 - Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.
Page 70 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it : and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it : and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.
Page 40 - For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
Page 72 - How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks? He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.
Page 108 - A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing...
Page 103 - God forbid that I should do this thing, and flee away from them : if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our honour.