 | John Russell Hurd - 1844 - 860 pages
...article of diet, fish seem to be mentioned, Numbers xi. 5, in contradistinction to heavenly food : " We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, (vegetables peculiarly earthy.) But now our soul is... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...them lusted after other food, and wept and lamented one to another, " Who shall give us flesh to eat ? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick : but now our soul is dried away : there is nothing... | |
 | 1863 - 640 pages
...explanatory paraphrase. The Book of Numbers reports the complaint thus, " Who shall give us flesh to eat ? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers and the melous and the leeks and the onions and the garlic ; but now our soul is dried away ; there is nothing... | |
 | 1920 - 552 pages
...my palate were up to it, my digestion would balk at the strange diet and in my discomfort I should remember " the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick." Alas and alack ! now " our soul is dried away " as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...that of Job's friends; they look back to the hour of past darkness and say, " We remember the flesh which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic. Let us return thither ; the gods of Egypt were true gods,... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...every dish. Who does not call to mind the murmurs of the Israelites at Taberah? "We remember the Osh which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic." The baking (including unmistakable macaroni ) and confectionery... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 712 pages
...because they remembered the leeks and onions, &c.f of Egypt : Numb. xi. 5, " We remember the flesh which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick." Remember what was the issue of their hankering. You... | |
 | 1845 - 442 pages
...Once more; we read in Numb. xi. 4, that Israel and the mixed multitude fell a-lusting, and said, ' We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.' We notice here only the word ' leeks? Every word is... | |
 | George Fisk - 1845 - 562 pages
...a lusting ; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat ? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks and the onions, and the garlick."1 Our way towards the Pyramids lay through Old Cairo,... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1845 - 494 pages
...repeated instances." — ROBINSON'S Researches, vol. ii. pp. 191, 192. FOOD IN EGYPT. NUMBERS xi. 5. " We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick." The food of the lower orders in Egypt " chiefly consists... | |
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And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and... 
