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... Ev'n wandring Hagar's worth an Angel's care . From her imperious Ladys Face fhe fled , The way that to her native Regions led : At length a Well the faw , but on the Brink Sinks fainting down , and wants the Pow'r to drink : Here , by ...
... Ev'n wandring Hagar's worth an Angel's care . From her imperious Ladys Face fhe fled , The way that to her native Regions led : At length a Well the faw , but on the Brink Sinks fainting down , and wants the Pow'r to drink : Here , by ...
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... ev'n her Eyes grew dry Parch'd and exhauft ; nor cou'd fhe fee him die : One Kifs fhe gave , that Kiss she thought her last ; And then beneath a Bush the Child she cast : With much of Pain he rais'd his fainting Eyes , And for his ...
... ev'n her Eyes grew dry Parch'd and exhauft ; nor cou'd fhe fee him die : One Kifs fhe gave , that Kiss she thought her last ; And then beneath a Bush the Child she cast : With much of Pain he rais'd his fainting Eyes , And for his ...
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... Son beftow , Who ftrains these Knees , and at your Feet will grow ! Of that , at least , a Brother can't deprive ; That , ev'n to Efau , may a Father give . The The Patriarch thus , I him thy Lord have made 42 The History of.
... Son beftow , Who ftrains these Knees , and at your Feet will grow ! Of that , at least , a Brother can't deprive ; That , ev'n to Efau , may a Father give . The The Patriarch thus , I him thy Lord have made 42 The History of.
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... Ev'n there we fearch forHappiness in vain : ( Plain ! Against a Favrite too they there combine , With lefs of Art , but ftill the fame defign : They on another's Ruin hope to rife , And for a Dream wou'd Jofeph facrifice . He thought he ...
... Ev'n there we fearch forHappiness in vain : ( Plain ! Against a Favrite too they there combine , With lefs of Art , but ftill the fame defign : They on another's Ruin hope to rife , And for a Dream wou'd Jofeph facrifice . He thought he ...
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... Ev'n Pharaoh not difdains to ask his Age : -Evil and fhort has been my Pilgrimage , A Century and Halft ' has not furpafsd , Tho ' longer far my Ancestors did laft . He faid , and blefs'd the King , and from him went , And Jofeph next ...
... Ev'n Pharaoh not difdains to ask his Age : -Evil and fhort has been my Pilgrimage , A Century and Halft ' has not furpafsd , Tho ' longer far my Ancestors did laft . He faid , and blefs'd the King , and from him went , And Jofeph next ...
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Page 47 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 209 - Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? And when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Page 115 - And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Page 181 - And Gideon said unto GOD, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor : and if the dew • be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Page 11 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 243 - And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to.
Page 73 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 37 - And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Page 273 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Page 267 - Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?