 | Bible - 1857 - 224 pages
...Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, And that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, And bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto him the number of my steps ; As a prince would I go near unto him. If my land... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 570 pages
...prefixed to them this motto, from Job : '' Behold, my desire is, that mine adversary had written a book : surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me." xxxi. 35. Ruff head, who wrote Pope's Life under the eye of Warburton, who revised every sheet of the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 572 pages
...prefixed to them this motto, from Job : ' ' Behold, my desire is, that mine adversary had written a book : surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me." xxxi. 35. Ruff head, who wrote Pope's Life under the eye of Warburton, who revised every sheet of the... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1859 - 474 pages
...down his charge against him. For how could he with any propriety go on to say in the next verse:— " Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, And bind it as a crown to me," etc. ? How was it possible for him thus to triumph in a bill of accusation coming from the God of truth... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 464 pages
...cover the following : " Job xxxi. 35, 36. My desire is — that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. Co. Mather." This book was reprinted in Salem in 1796 and in 1823. The following concerning Calef was... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1859 - 854 pages
...the cover the following: "Job xxxi. 35, 36. My desire is — that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. Co. Mather." This book was reprinted in Salem in 1796 and in 1823. The following concerning Calef was... | |
 | 1859 - 982 pages
...behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 36 ce. 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein я, crown to me. 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps ; as a prince would I go near unto... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...of all sizes, and prefixed this motto,' Behold, my desire is that mine adversary had written a book; surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.' Was there ever such a crown for a bard ] But Pope liked to mix thorns with his laurels. Though he hated... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 552 pages
...that I have got by it what Job wished for, when ho said, " Oh, that my adversary had written a book, surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me," for the abuse is so gross and illiberal, that I think it will tend greatly to give a right issue to... | |
 | 1881 - 784 pages
...subaltern who carries his king's commission if he be moved. Job says, " Let my enemy write a book, surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me " (Job. xxxi. 35, 36). You seem to fear the depth and finesse of my adversary. Alas ! my dear, dear... | |
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