...blood by civil misery, England lay plague-stricken. It is written of an ancient people, ' In those days there was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes ;' but in England, under King Stephen, the case was worse. For, because at that time...

...while, though he thought himself wiser and in a better case than his neighbours. But this was done when there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes, otherwise so abominable an act could never have passed so clearly as it did. By such...

...resemble that unfortunate plight of the Hebrews, detailed in the last chapter of the book of Judges, when '« there was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own sight." Yet it is to support such a system as this, that the Religious Public are called...

...ultimately be found that they have been, alas! unconsciously employed in a very different service. in those days when there was no king in Israel, and every man did what was right in his own eyes, that Micah introduced a separate house, a separate priesthood, and...

...yet ruled with God, and was faithful with the saints." But Judah knew not true liberty : no, not even when " There was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes." In after years she bowed beneath Solomon's scourge of whips, and Rehoboam's scorpion...

...Elkanah, a man in private life, and a good man, had two wives. We are told however that he lived "in those days when there was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes." His history, also, is chiefly made up of- the distress, brought upon his family,...

...also to be cannonaded ; but with no Bouille to do it. For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes, f Such things has an august National Assembly to hear of, as it goes on regenerating...

...also to be cannonaded ; but with no Bouille to do it. For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes.t * Dampmartin: Evfenemens, i. 208. t See Deux Amis (iii. c. 14 ; iv. c. 2, 3, 4, 7,...

...authority is either weak or wanting. The condition of Palestine under its worst tyrant was not so bad as •when "there was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes." As there is nothing fixed and nothing defined, every savage is almost constantly...

...Patriarchal government is best defined in the last verse of Judges c. 21, v. 25. " And in those days there was no king in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes." fying their honour by killing some poor innocent freedman, or slaves, who cannot...