 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pages
...occasions. Example 1. Thu? Elijah challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity. " Cry aloud, for he is a god : either he is talking,...in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must he awakened." 2. To reprm.ea person for hisuegKgence, one might say, " You have taken great care indeed."... | |
 | Daniel Jaudon - 1820 - 236 pages
...Psalm. Q. What is Irony? A. Irony, dissembling with an air, Means otherwise than words declare. Example: "Cry aloud; for he is a God: either he is talking or he, is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or jip.radr en tare he sleepeth, and must be awakened." I Kings sviii. 27. Q. What is a Climax? A. A Climax,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 466 pages
...made. These antic gesticulations are of as little avail. Upon this, Elijah tauntingly exclaims ; " Cry aloud, for he is a God : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked !" Roused by the reproachful sneer, they repeat their vociferations;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 356 pages
...when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said : Cry aloud, for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventare he slcepeth, and must be awaked." Exclamations and Irony are sometimes united: as in Cicero's... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...hear us, — but there was no voice nor any that answered. And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a God, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, — or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awakened. But there was neither voice, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 pages
...when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said : Cry, . aloud for he is a god ; either he is talking, or be is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Exclamations... | |
 | John Berridge - 1822 - 224 pages
...sacrificed and prayed to him for miraculous evidence of his divinity, " Elijah mocked them, and Said, cry aloud, for he is a god ; either he is talking,...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." Isaiah, to expose the superstition of the Heathen, describes their idols in a ludicrous manlier. Paul,... | |
 | Samuel Pelton - 1822 - 294 pages
...in doing it with a great noise, because it may be with him as Elijah told the prophets of Baal : " For he is a God ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a joufney, or peradventure h« sleepeth, and must be awaked."* 3d. The freewillers contend, that the... | |
 | Thomas Towne - 1823 - 232 pages
...their altar ! While, from the attitude and countenance of Elijah, I can suppose that he is saying, " Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Enraged by this taunt, Baal's priests cut themselves with knives and lances ; VOL. III. i. the blood... | |
 | John James Blunt - 1823 - 322 pages
...Elijah addressed the priests of Baal : " And it came to pass, that at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he skepeth and must be awakened." Accordingly we read that those prophets... | |
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And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 
