 This Senator was disturbed, when to his inquiry, personally, pointedly, and vehemently addressed to me, whether I would join in returning a fellow-man to slavery? I exclaimed, ' Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing...  The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 250by Charles Sumner - 1871Full view - About this book
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...we are tried. A prophet of old told a man what wickedness he would commit when elevated to power: he exclaimed, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" Nothing is more corrupting than power. Hence the necessity of restraining it by every available check.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...the prophet predicted, that when advanced to authority, he would be guilty of oppression and cruelty, exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" But he did it. Such, indeed, were the naturally vitiating consequences of the possession of arbitrary... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...alive. When our prophet had predicted the future vileness of Hazael, Hazael shocked at the intelligence exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing !" He was probably at the time sincere ; but he knew not how differently he should feel in new and... | |
 | Ireland - 1835 - 726 pages
...the Jewish king that he would, at a future time, commit some great iniquity, the latter indignantly exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" But he did it. Did it, although both the letter and the spirit of hU religion were against it ;... | |
 | 1835 - 742 pages
...the Jewish king that he would, at a future time, commit some great iniquity, the latter indignantly exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" But he did it. Did it, although both the letter and the spirit of his religion were against it ;... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1839 - 372 pages
...viewed him with tears, and predicted the cruelties of his future reign, he was filled with horror, and exclaimed, " is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ? " " Yet," as Matthew Henry remarks, "after all, the dog did it." He went forward, arrived at the... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Walker - 1839 - 372 pages
...viewed him with tears, and predicted the cruelties of his future reign, he was filled with horror, and exclaimed, " is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ? " " Yet," as Matthew Henry remarks, "after all, the dog did it." He went forward, arrived at the... | |
 | 1745 - 518 pages
...viewed him with tears, and predicted the cruelties of his future reign, he was filled with horror, and exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" But he went forward — arrived at the foot of the throne — exchanged the man for the tyrant —... | |
 | Emma Catherine Embury - American fiction - 1848 - 336 pages
...of Hazael, who, when the prophet predicted the murder and rapine which he would afterwards commit, exclaimed, ' Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?' and yet the prediction was actually fulfilled by him to the very letter. He who can enter upon so... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...When the prophet Elisha told Hazael, 1 Kings xi. 8, what horrid deeds he should perpetrate, the man exclaimed, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ? " Yet at that moment the germs of the action were throbbing in his heart, and about to break into... | |
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