 | 1820 - 494 páginas
...which he considered sufficiently comprehensive, and repeated in a manner peculiarly emphatical : « The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." The liberties he took with our venerable sovereign, are such as will scarcely admit of extenuation.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 páginas
...della Valle, this is the name of which the Latins have made Zenobia> He gave, he takes away ! — P. 5. The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord. JOB, i. 21. I have placed a scripture phrase in the mouth of a Mahommedan ; but it is a baying... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 páginas
...sore. Job i. 21. And said. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Phil. i. 20, 21. According to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall... | |
 | Brief memoirs - 1822 - 140 páginas
...followed, yet can I not say, " good is the Lord,—shall not the Judge of the whole earth do right?"—" The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord," firmly believing that whatever Almighty God dispenses to those who serve him, is. in supreme... | |
 | Brief memoirs - 1823 - 174 páginas
...followed, yet can I not say, " good is the Lord,—shall not the Judge of the whole earth do right ?"—" The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord," firmly believing that whatever Almighty God dispenses to those who serve him, is in supreme... | |
 | William Marshall Harte - 1824 - 426 páginas
...Christians do, with a complete resignation and obedience to him: you are to say as a good man once said, The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord; You are to say, as another good man did, when he lost two of His sons, It is the Lord, let... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 páginas
...meekness and resignation to the will of the Almighty, and exclaims with the suffering patriarch, " the Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." While others are losing their time in idle, perhaps even in blasphemous lamentations, over... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1826 - 500 páginas
...meekness and resignation to the will of the Almighty, and exclaims with the suffering patriarch, " the Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." While others are losing their time in idle, perhaps even in blasphemous lamentations, over... | |
 | 1826 - 792 páginas
...moment, of the pious sentiment with which he received the intelligence of his utter desolation :—" The " Lord gave and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name " of the Lord !" These words beautifully indeed express the dictates of a presiding Conscientiousness and... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 542 páginas
...while been accustomed to see, and I was unusually cheerful at this improvement in our circnmstances. I saw his eyes full of tears, and oh ! with what pain...himself to tell me that it was the last dinner we roust ever eat in this house. I took his hand with » smile, and only said, ' the Lord gave and the... | |
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I saw his eyes full of tears; and Oh! " with what pain did he bring himself to " tell me that it was the last dinner we " must ever eat in that house. I took " his hand with a smile, and only said, " ' the Lord gave and the Lord taketh " ' away, blessed... 
