 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...years, but we have no farther history of her, except that she was buried in the cave of Machpelah. LOVE. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her," Genesis. Twice seven years that suitor wrought, To win that maiden's hand, And yet to his impassioned... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...pronounced on Japhet, is on his posterity. And the curse of Canaan respects his posterity. Therefore it ie reasonable to understand the blessing of Shem to be...love wherewith he loved her. That Jacob might enjoy his beloved Rachel, was the joy set before him ; for which he despised the difficulty of his servitude.... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...wife Rachel. And, in the emphatic language of Scripture, it is said of those years, " they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." And, through all his subsequent history, up to the hour when he placed a pillar on her grave, his love... | |
 | 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...said, ft is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me. and let us fall unto the host 21 U And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife (for my days are fulfilled) that I may go in 22 And... | |
 | Grace Aguilar - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better I give her unto thee than to another man. Abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." We think much of those tales of chivalry where man performs some great and striking deed — conquers... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...that ardent passion, which made the tedious probation of seven years service pass so lightly, that "they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Perhaps nothing affords a more incontrovertable proof of the truth of the sacred writings, than the... | |
 | Robert Augustus Gordon - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...Jacob kept Laban's flocks, and fed them. " And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." When the seven years were ended, Jacob asked Laban to give Rachel to him to be his wife, as he had... | |
 | George Bush - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...they would look back upon the humble and perhaps servile condition of the founders of their families. 20 And Jacob ' served seven years for Rachel ; and...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. i ch. 30. 26. Hon. 12. 12. 20. Theyseemedunlohimbutafewdays, &c. As human nature is constituted, it... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...Jacob did for Rachel, sooner than have any other woman for the asking. I often think of those words, " And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they...unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Dr. Stuart Robinson made a good point in a sermon. He was alluding to the objection made by the unconverted... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...in Scripture a very remarkable instance of this kind. It is in Genesis. " Jacob, it is there said, " served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto...him but a few days, for the love he had to her."* I know that our politicians, who value nothing but gold and titles, are unable to comprehend this;... | |
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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 
