If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall he not see ? I have been young, and now I am old ; yet have I never THE ENGLISH READER - Page 31by Lindley Murray - 1811 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jews - 1973 - 672 pages
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| John Ruskin - 1989 - 446 pages
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| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre; i'e Is he that fmgeth fongs to an heavy heart. 21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirfty, give him water to drink : 22 For thou fhalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 582 pages
...accumulation of passages in which the phrase itself occurs, the original of it is still left unexplored " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if lie be thirsty, give him water to drink : for thou shall heap coals of fire upon kis head," &c. Prov.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1793 - 686 pages
...accumulation of paflbge» in which the phrafeitfelf occurs, the original of it is ftill left unexplored.—" If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat ; and if he be thirlry, give liim water to drink : for thou (halt heap coals of fire upon hit head." &c. Prov. xxv.... | |
| John Gill - Theology, Doctrinal - 1796 - 570 pages
...advantage or disadvantage of the members of the body; hence the Psalmist reasons, fie that planted the car, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see ? He must needs hear all that is said, and see all that is done in the world, and must know and take... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...flow to anger, is better than the mighty; and he that rulelh his fpirit, than he that taketh a city. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirfty, give him water to drink. Seed thou a man wife in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 340 pages
...comprehend this, weigh, in the most exact and equitable balance, the argument of our prophet. //?, that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He, that formed the eye, shall he not see? He, that chastiselh the heathen, shall not he correct ? He, that teacheth man knowledge, shall not... | |
| John Hey - Emotions - 1801 - 278 pages
...burden of the man that hateth us is seen lying under his burden. Exod. xxiii. 4, 5. Solomon says, " If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat : " and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink": Prov. xxv. 21, which precept is cited and adopted by St. Paul, Rom. xii. 20. and will hereafter be... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...antithetic form the psalmist disposeth his argument in support of the Divine knowledge. " He that plant" ed the ear, || shall he not hear ? He that formed " the eye, | shall he not see J ?" He argues from the effect to the cause, the only way in which we can argue intelligibly concerning... | |
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