| Bible - 1799 - 224 pages
...countenance in the presence of the kings of Persia, and alarmed for his safety, Nehemiah replied: — " Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ?" Neh. ii. 3. Nehemiah found... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 pages
...temple. When the idolatrous prince put this question to him, Why is thy countenance sad ? He replied, Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, iieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Nehem. ii. 2. 3. Daniel... | |
| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...$nd visage : and upon the king's asking why his countenance was so sad, he ingenuously answered, " Why should not my countenance " be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' " sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof " are consumed with fire?" In the New Testament, besides... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...king. Now he had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said unto him, Wherefore is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then he was very sore afraid, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...viait on the king toith a cheerful air ; Wherefore the king, observing the change, said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick...but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, Uit the king thoutd eusfiect me of some treasonable detign, or the courtiers 3 should ofifoee the firofioaal... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...a cheerful air ; Wherefore the king, observing the change, said unto me, Why [is] thy coun, tenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick : this [is] nothing...but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, lest the king should suspect me of same treasonable design, or the courtiers 3 should ofiftose the... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1805 - 380 pages
...temple. When the idolatrous prince put this question to him, Why is thy countenance sad ? He replied, Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof 'are consumed with fire? Nehem. ii. 2. 3. Daniel... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...Observe Nehemiah, to whom his royal master put the question, Why is thy countenance sad ? said he, Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed wifh fire ? chap. ii. 2, &c. Consider... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...all Comfort, when we see Nehemiah so quick, in the expressions of his sorrow to an uncertain ear ! Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, licth waste, and the gates thereof burnt with f re ? Not without an humble preface,... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...Wherefore the king said unto me, Why «• thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this in ear day 3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the... | |
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