| William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 lehte
...s. We have also a striking example of the same kind in the history of Abraham and his nephew Loth. When their joint substance became so great, that pasture...all the plain of Jordan, that it was well " watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. f Gen. xxvi. 15. 19, etc. pus, ut ncrom, plaentt, Df raor.... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 lehte
...: for we b« brethren. 9 , Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself, I pray thee, fiom me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 1 0 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well. watered every... | |
| William Paley - 1811 - 540 lehte
...read of, was that which took place between Abram and Lot, and was one of the simplest imaginable : " If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." There are no traces of property in land in Caesar's account of Britain ; little of it in the history... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 lehte
...pray thee, between thce and me. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself, I pray thce, from me : If thou wilt take the left hand, then I...all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan, and journeyed... | |
| William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 lehte
...thy herdmen and my herdmen — for we 138 are brethren! Is not the whole land before thee? Sc-parate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left!' " Although the elder, he thought it no disgrace to yield; and, by his submission, proved his greatness... | |
| John Brodhead Romeyn - 1816 - 456 lehte
...I pray thee, between me " and thee, and between my herdmen and " thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not " the whole land before thee ? Separate " thyself,...right hand, " then I will go to the left '." This offer, on the part of Abraham, was generous, and worthy of himself. Although the elder, and one specially... | |
| John Hoyland - 1816 - 486 lehte
...I pray thee, between me and thee, and between thy herdsmen, and my herdsmen ; for we are brethren. Separate thyself I pray thee from me ; if thou wilt...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Sermons preached or volumes written, in favour of a peaceable, gentle, yielding, generous, and manly... | |
| Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 lehte
...very striking coincidence, between the customs of the Arabs, and their remote ancestors of the East. " Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself,...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Genesis, Chap. XIII. — Ed. of the camel's saddle. It is thus, that an Arab family travels when in... | |
| 1834 - 614 lehte
...earth. The land, however, is all before them : and they may say lo each other, as Abraham to Lot, " If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to...depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Shall we blame the Moravians for taking possession of Greenland ? or the London Missionary Society,... | |
| William Charles Wentworth - 1820 - 616 lehte
...and between my herdsmen and thy " herdsmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the " whole land before us ? Separate thyself, I pray " thee, from me. If thou...to the right hand, then I will go to the " left.*' Such, — should any of these disputes occur, — might always be their amicable termination. There... | |
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