| 1879 - 864 σελίδες
...a thoughtfulness and sympathy much to be imitated — noticed his sorrowful countenance and said, " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick...This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." " Then " — Nehemiah relates — " then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live... | |
| Joseph Farrand Tuttle - 1854 - 20 σελίδες
...convention of heart-heavy men—to each of whom one might have said as King Artaxerxes did to jSTehemiah, " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." And it was nothing else but sorrow of heart, for they could have said, " Thou hast brought a vine out... | |
| Joseph Farrand Tuttle - 1854 - 178 σελίδες
...convention of heart-heavy men — to each of whom one might have said as King Artaxerxes did to Nehemiah, " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." And it was nothing else but sorrow of heart, for they could have said, " Thou hast brought a vine out... | |
| John Harvey (Methodist minister.) - 1855 - 192 σελίδες
...was observed on the countenance of the pious Nehemiah, and Artaxerxes enquired the canse thereof : " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart." He answered, "Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1855 - 508 σελίδες
...twentieth year of his reign, (c) Ho states distinctly, that it was because Jerusalem was still in ruins: "Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, l<\i!i watte, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire." ch. ii. 3. (rf) The n•/<!>•( of Nehemiab,... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 486 σελίδες
...favours and benefits, but still he determined to speak out. " Let the king," he said, " live for ever. 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 ? " The king asked what... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 σελίδες
...to begin the world anew ; and exposed to all the hardships and inconveniences of want and poverty. Should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchre, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ? While the terrors occasioned... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 502 σελίδες
...age, to begin the world anew; and exposed to all the hardships and inconveniences of want and poverty. Should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchre, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ? While the terrors occasioned... | |
| James Caughey, Daniel Wise - 1855 - 422 σελίδες
...but real, downright sorrow. When King Artaxerxes noticed the dejection of Nehemiah, he inquired, " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothiiig else but sorrow of heart." 0 Jesus, my Lord ! this is nothing else but sorrow of heart ! But... | |
| William Maxwell Hetherington - 1856 - 118 σελίδες
...the Persian monarch, observing the sorrowful countenance of Nehemiah, his cupbearer, inquired, • " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart," he bound the heart of the noble-minded Jew from that hour more closely to his throne. And when honest... | |
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