| George Fox - 1831 - 330 pages
...said unto her father, as thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, so do unto me according to what hath proceeded out of thy mouth, forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thy enemies. And the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephtha. Judges xi.... | |
| Jacques Samuel Pons, Richard Cattermole - 1832 - 342 pages
...express only the affectionate piety of a loving heart, and the most unaffected resignation : — " My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the...for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Amman." While, by transmitting from age to age the story of the sublime devotedness of Jephthah's daughter,... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1832 - 194 pages
...seclusion, the Christian daughter remembers the example, and takes the spirit of it to herself:— " My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the...according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth." (Judg. xi. 36.) In one only instance the Christian daughter feels that there is a limit to filial obedience... | |
| George Farren (resident director of the Asylum life office.) - 1833 - 68 pages
...trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back. And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the...according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth.' And after bewailing her virginity among the mountains, "She returned unto her father, who did with... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 310 pages
...an heroic self-possession, — and a religious patriotism unparalleled in history, — she says ; " My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the...of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon." She accompanied this declaration, however, with one request. About 'to be cut off in the prime of life,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 972 pages
...features of pious heroism ; her willingness to die according to the very letter of her father's vow, " forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee...of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon;" 'nut at least a lovely vision has passed before mine -eyes, and I have seen the lilies and the roses... | |
| Matthew James Chapman - 1834 - 138 pages
...features of pious Heroism; her willingness to die according to the very letter of her father's vow, " forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon;"—but at least a lovely vision has passed before mine eyes, and I have seen the lilies and... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 pages
...trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back. And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the...thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. The character of Samson displays in a powerful manner that combination of strength and weakness, which... | |
| 1835 - 1176 pages
...trouble me : for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. 36. And she said unto him, od are moved fqr thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. 37. And she said unto her father, Let this... | |
| 1836 - 1290 pages
...said nnlo him. My father, (/"ihou hast opened 36 thy mouth unto the LORD, do to mo according lo thai which hath proceeded out of thy mouth ; forasmuch...thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. And she said unto her lather. Let this thing be done 37 for me : let me alone two months, that I may go... | |
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