| Laurence Sterne - Sermons - 1767 - 308 pages
...patriarchs, he was the moft unhappy : for 'bating the fevcn years he ferved Laban for Rachael, "which feemed to him but a " few days for the love he had to her" — ftrike thofe out of the number, — all his other days were forrow; and that, not from his... | |
| James Fordyce - Ethics - 1777 - 362 pages
...noblenefs of a tender affection well pointed. " Jacob ferved fe*' ven years for Rachel; and they feemed *' to him but a few days, for the Love he *« had to her." Our Patriarch poffefled neither fortune, nor the profpect of it ; and the lady's father was one... | |
| John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 486 pages
...the company and conversation of his beloved Rachel; and though he served seven years for her, they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her. When he had faithfully fulfilled his part of the engagement, he calls upon Laban to perform what... | |
| John Willison - Christian life - 1821 - 316 pages
...your cross both. It is said of Jacob, Gen. xxix. 20. that he served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." And, shall not we endure a few years' affliction for our Lord Jesus Christ, who Jived a life... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...disappointments and such affronts : ' And Jacob,' saith the text, ' served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her.' This is the root, from whence voluntary obedience doth naturally grow ; if it be planted in our... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 606 pages
...disappointments and such affronts : And Jacob, saith the text, served seven years for Gen. x»u. Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her. This is the root, from whence voluntary obedience doth naturally grow ; if it be planted in our... | |
| Forests and forestry - 1832 - 440 pages
...GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF THE SHEEP. f " Jacob served Laban seven years for the sake of Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her ;" and then, being deceived by her father, he served for her yet another seven long years : at... | |
| David Jardine - Great Britain - 1835 - 452 pages
...1603, in which he says, that " he has now completed his triple apprenticeship of one and twenty years in direst adversity, and that he should be content...seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her J." The second instance we select is that of Mr. Thomas Throckmorton, of Coughton, nephew of Sir... | |
| David Jardine - Great Britain - 1835 - 440 pages
...1603, in which he says, that " he has now completed his triple apprenticeship of one and twenty years in direst adversity, and that he should be content...seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her }." The second instance we select is that of Mr. Thomas Throckmorton, of Coughton, nephew of Sir... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1138 pages
...1603, in which ho says, that ' he has now completed his triple apprenticeship of one and twenty years in direst adversity, and that he should be content...seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her.' t" In negotiations with the catholic leaders before he came to the throne, and even for a short... | |
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