...12. And good Barzillai justly excuses himself, for not accepting the gracious invitation of David: / am this day fourscore years old, and can I discern...and evil? Can thy servant taste what I eat, or what 1 drink ? Can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women ? Wherefore then should thy...

...Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? I am this day fourscore years old : and can I discern...between good and evil ? Can thy servant taste what 1 eat or what I drink ? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women ? Wherefore...

...till with Barzillai, every old man is forced to say, ' Can thy servant taste any more what I eat and what I drink ? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men or of singing women ? " But I will not dwell longer on the contrast between the everlasting pleasures...

...said unto the king, > How long have I to live, that I 35 should go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? em. 1 HoU ikau linnui. 3 Or, wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the 36 king? Thy servant will go a little...

...And Barzillai justly excuses himself for not accepting the gracious invitation of David, by saying, I am this day fourscore years old; and can I discern...or what I drink ? Can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singingwomen ? Wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?...

...like that Barzillai, the Gileadite, and he might have well echoed the veteran's mournful plaint : " I am this day fourscore years old, and can I discern...between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat and drink ? can I hear any more the voices of singing men and singing women?" His only wish was that...

...motive of sufficient magnitude to justify the rashness of Antigone— a rashness undoubtedly in uni• ' Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women ?'— Samuel, c. xix. son with the leading conception to which Sophocles has adhered, and probably...

...this lan-guage. To the generality of the aged the language of Barzillai is much more appropriate, " I am this day fourscore years old, and can I discern...drink ? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men or singing women ? " Yes, to the greatest portion of those who attain old age, it is a period which...

...this language. To the generality of the aged the language of Barzillai is much more appropriate, " I am this day fourscore years old, and can I discern...drink ? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men or singing women ? " Yes, to the greatest portion of those who attain old age, it is a period which...

...Hippi.a moschos, Quot Themison segros auctumno occiderit^uno, ! '» * ' •• i. lif' ' > «*•• fourscore years old : and can I discern between good...any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto rny lord the king V 2 Sam. xix. 35. Af. 204....