| William Mure - 1850 - 580 pages
...fine commentary on the address of Elijah to the worshippers of Baal: " Cry aloud, for he is a god! either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is...or, peradventure, he sleepeth and must be awakened!" their lame son Vulcan excites the mirth of the deities by the ludicrous performance of his office of... | |
| miss Elizabeth Warren - 1850 - 92 pages
...priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, mocked them, and said : " Cry aloud, for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is...a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." VERSIFICATION. Versification is the arrangement of a certain number and variety of syllables,... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1850 - 664 pages
...approven buman writers. I instance only that of Elias, 1 Kings xviii. 27. " He (Baal) is a god ; either be is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Yet 1 compare not Luther's commentary to tbe inspired writing; only where the holy Scripture... | |
| Peter Nead - 1850 - 488 pages
...made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said cry aloud for he is a God—either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or jieradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their... | |
| Eleazar Lord - 1851 - 332 pages
...devised. It might be urged as in another case of his delinquency, " he is a god," though absent ; " either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is...a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." But the blunder is far worse for the geologic theory than it proved to be for the nimble creatures... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...the most solemn occasions, as will be seen by the following: Example 1st, Cry aloud, for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure lie sleepeth, and must be awakened. See 1 Kings, chapter xviii., verse 27. Example 2d. And Job answered... | |
| Jabez Burns - 1851 - 164 pages
...FEELING. " And it came _to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or perad : venture he sleepeth, and must be awaked." — 1 KINOB xviii. 27. OUR text gives a very graphic... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...chapter xii., verses 5, 6. j See the story of Ariadne, in Lempriere's Classical Dictionary. In the suing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awakened. See 1 Kings, chapter xviii., verse 27. Example 2d. And Job answered and said, No doubt ye are the people,... | |
| 1851 - 636 pages
...noon, that Elijah' mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god : either he is talking, or Hjf is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and rritist1i># awaked." — Verse 27. What they said, when their time was up, is ifot^rel corded ; but... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity in these words, — " Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." 163. Sarcasm, a kind of irony, is a keen satirical expression, intended to insult and mortify... | |
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