 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 500 pages
...the prophet Elisha, to inquire of him, whether he should recover. The prophet looked so attentively on this messenger, that it put him into some confusion...hath shewed me, that thou shalt be king over Syria.' try, by considerations adapted to my readers as they are Englishmen, and as by that means they enjoy... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 pages
...when he told him of the evil he would do to the children of Israel, &c. ; and of Hazael's answer, " But what is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 12, 13. Yet afterwards he perpetrated the deed ; and this man soon after separated himself,... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 pages
...capable of .svich savage actions as the prophet had mentioned ;and, wiihtcucli warmih,he replies ; " But what ? 'is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing s" Elisha n,akes no return, but to point cut a remarkable change, which, was to tike place iu his-... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 438 pages
...tier,. &c. SERMON J. DIFFICULTY x OF KNOWING ONE'S SELF.* SECOND KINGS, Vi•ii. FART OF THE 13xH TERSE. And Hasael said, But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? WE have a very singular instance of the deceitfulness of the heart, represented to us in the person... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. Ver. 13. And Hazael said, But what '. is thy servant a dog, that he should...Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that .thou shall be king over Syria. a Psal. Ixxxi. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel... | |
 | Edward Kimpton - 1813 - 536 pages
...•women with child. Hazael asked how he could he the author of such distress? To which Elisha replied, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. At these words Hazael' s ambition took wing: he immediately left the prophet, and returning to his... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...SERMON I. THE DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING ONE'S-SELF.* 2 KINGS, VIII. PART OF THE 13TH VERSE. And Hazael said, But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? have a very singular instance of the deceitfulness of the heart, represented to us in the per* "... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. 13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should...Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou sltalt be king over Syria. 14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master ; who said to him,... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 544 pages
...children, and rip up their women with child :" he startled at it as an execrable cruelty ? " And Hazael said, but what, is thy servant a dog that he should...this great thing ? And Elisha answered, the Lord hath showed me, that thou shall be king over Syria." When advanced to empire, he divested humanity. Pride... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 572 pages
...their women tvith child; when he heard this, he entertained the thought with a kind of abhorrence, and said, But -what, is thy servant a dog; that he should do this great thing1, 2 Kings viii. 12, 13. Yet afterwards, when king of Syria, we find him of another mind ; for... | |
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And Hazael said. But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? 
