Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field, till there be no place, That they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! Self Culture - Page 8801895Full view - About this book
| 1823 - 190 pages
...memories, when they are tempted to this detestable rice of drunkenness. "• Wo unto them that rise early in the morning that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, until wine inllame them. Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure,... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...Solemnly dwell upon those dreadful curses and woes that are from heaven denounced against self-seekers. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field...they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ! Isa. v. 8. So Habakkuk, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his, and to him that ladeth... | |
| sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...he looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for righteousness, but behold a cry (p). 6, Woe (q) unto them that join house to house (;•), that lay...they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. 9. In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, " Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...labour of man is for his mouth ; and yet the appetite (or soul) is not filled.— Eccles. vi. 2. 7. . Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, &c. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, &c. and the... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...labour of man is for his mouth ; and yet the appetite (or soul) is not filled. — Eccles. vi. 2. 7. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, &c. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, &c. and the... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 ave I commanded. 131 ! 9 In mine ears, said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...(Ruth i. 8. iv. 16.) Large estates, however, were not approved of. Isaiah pronounces a curse on those " that join house to house, that lay field to field,...place, that they may be placed alone in the midst." Vhilc some portions of land near the towns were enclosed, the greater part was in common, or in alternate... | |
| William Penn - 1825 - 632 pages
...Again, " Wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink. Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue unto night, till wine inflame them : and the harp, and the viol, the tabret and the pipe, and wine... | |
| John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? they that tarry long at the wine. Isai. v. 11, 12. woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink but they regard not the work of Jehovah, v. 22. woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, \\viii... | |
| John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? they that tarry long at the wine.' Isai. v. 11, 12. ' woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink . . . but they regard not the work of Jehovah.' v. 22. ' woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine.'... | |
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