 | Jacob Abbott - Christian life - 1832 - 410 pages
...peace which reigns there. Vice is comparatively unknown, property and life are safe, every man sits under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. But when man is left to himself, he makes his home a den of robbers. If you travel on the Nile or the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Greece - 1833 - 398 pages
...following the peace of Antalcidas, afforded nothing for history to record. All over Greece, every man sat under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid, but this tranquillity was then interrupted by a cause which ought rather to have cemented union than... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - American literature - 1838 - 316 pages
...rumours of war shall cease ; the nations shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace, and each man sit under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make them afraid ! Then will the devil be bound in chains, and Israel conquer for evermore. Verily, thou... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 312 pages
...rumours of war shall cease ; the nations shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace, and each man sit under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make them afraid ! Then will the devil be bound in chains, and Israel conquer for evermore. Verily, thou... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1840 - 726 pages
...end and purpose of government is, to prevent one person from injuring another ; so that every one may sit under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. This is the object of all our laws, and all the expensive machinery of government, which has taken... | |
 | William Ladd - Arbitration (International law) - 1840 - 204 pages
...end and purpose of government is, to prevent one person from injuring another ; so that every one may sit under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. This is the object of all our laws, and all the expensive machinery of government, which has taken... | |
 | William Ladd - Arbitration (International law) - 1840 - 204 pages
...end and purpose of government is, to prevent one person from injuring another; so that every one may sit under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. This is the object of all our laws, and all the expensive machinery of government, which has taken... | |
 | Peace - 1845 - 620 pages
...era when ' the kingdoms of this world shall all become the kingdom of our Lord, and every man shall sit under his ' own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid.' AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, BOSTON, MASS. No. LVII. CAUSES OF WAR. BY JONATHAN DYMOKD.* IN attempting to... | |
 | Theology - 1846 - 792 pages
...government that the beautiful vision of the prophet has its fullest realization, when every man sits under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. It is not therefore right of suffrage, not frequency of electfons simply, not these chiefly, which... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1846 - 810 pages
...government that the beautiful vision of the prophet has its fullest realization, when every man sits under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. It is not therefore right of suffrage, not frequency of elections simply, not these chiefly, which... | |
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He could own his little home, and there sit under his own vine and fig-tree, with none to molest or make him afraid. 
