| Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster - 1899 - 352 halaman
...is that old story of Jacob's passion for Eachel. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." Yet seven more were appointed unto him, fourteen in all, before the dearly beloved became his... | |
| Henry Theophilus Finck - 1899 - 888 halaman
...shepherd girls are very seldom unmarried after that age, or even an earlier age, for obvious reasons. " seemed to him but a few days for the love he had for her ? " Is not this the language of an expert in love ? Many of my critic's, to my surprise, seemed... | |
| Willard Done - 1900 - 234 halaman
...fortune. Therefore, he willingly consented. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.1' But Laban seems to have been so crafty and unreliable as to be incapable of giving due reward for service... | |
| Henry Hawkes Spink (jr) - 1902 - 464 halaman
...writ in the year 1603, " that he had now completed his triple apprenticeship in direst adversity, and that he should be content to serve a like long apprenticeship...is pure and bright, and our sad thoughts doth cheer l'" ! -/; /,"?•/•; • "• • ' \ CHAPTER VII. The men known to history as the Gunpowder Plotters... | |
| Henry Hawkes Spink (jr) - 1902 - 460 halaman
...a like long apprenticeship to prevent the foregoing of his beloved, beautiful, and graceful Kachel; for it seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her." 1 Well may the spiritual descendants to-day of theso grand old Elizabethan Catholics exclaim... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 428 halaman
...patriarchs, he was the most unhappy : for, 'bating the seven years he served Laban for Rachel, " which seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her" strike those out of the number, all his other days were sorrow ; and that, not from his faults,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 802 halaman
...patriarchs, he was the most unhappy : for, 'bating the seven years he served Laban for Rachel, " which seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her" strike those out of the number, - - all his other days were sorrow ; and that, not from his faults,... | |
| George Angier Gordon - 1906 - 460 halaman
...living water. VI LIFE AND LOVE AND TIME "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they Beamed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.'1 Generis xxix, 20. GOOD men, as they grow older, become more and more sympathetic and grateful toward... | |
| Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram - 1907 - 350 halaman
...mother and his home; the ennobling love which enabled him to work year after year for Rachel, and " it seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her;" the silent wrestling in prayer with God in the face of great danger — all were stages in the... | |
| Caroline M. Butterfield - 1907 - 376 halaman
...the land of the people of the east . " 32 VI. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they .. seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her" 36 "• VII. "What is this thou has done unto me?" 52 VIII. "The Lord saw that Leah was hated."... | |
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