 | John M'Donald (teacher of English) - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...circumflex (that is the union of both inflections upon the same syllable) is used to express irony, as: " And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,...pursuing', or he is in a journey' , or peradventure he slSepeth', and must be aw&ked'," I Kings xviii. 27. " And Job answered and said, No doubt but yfi are... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...affords is impregnable, and unintermitted night or day. Elijah mocked the priests of Baal, saying, " Cry aloud ; for he is a god ; either he is talking,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." But God is a present help in every time of trouble. " The sun shall not smite thee by day," as it did... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...be, to teach the worshippers in what form of words to address the deity they served. — HARMER. Ver. 27. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. In the hottest part of the day the Orientals retire to rest on their bed, till the cool of the evening... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...Elijah, when he taunted with the most palpable and acute irony the worshippers of Baal, by exclaiming, "Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking,...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked," I Kings xviii. 27. Cases may occur too, in far different times, rendering the employment of fiction... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 758
...effect a " reductio nd abrurdum?'' Such was Elijah's "argumentum e concessis" to the men of Baal : "Cry aloud, for he is a God ! either he is talking,...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked !" Is the administration of heathen oaths like this? Is the design in assuming the premises to destroy... | |
 | Henry Hetherington - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 32
...surrounding nations? Elijah is represented as ridiculing the God of the Moabites in a most offensive manner : "And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventurehe sleepeth and must be awaked.' " 1 Kings xviii. 27. And in Judea, Jesus and his Apostles... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...it. The prophet Elijah, when he challenged U,e priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god...or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Exclamations and irony are sometimes united; as in Cicero's oration for Balbus, where he derides his... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...IV. The language of irony is uttered with the circumflex ; sometimes, with the falling inflection r And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,...either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey ; or peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked. , ~.S Courageous chief, w ^ .^The... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 814
...and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon...and must be awaked. 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their man ner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And... | |
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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 in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 
