 | Samuel Walker - Apostles' Creed - 1836 - 606 pages
...language is expressive of a depdrtme'rit we are but too apt to fall in'to towards our inferiors ; ' Who is David ? and who is the son of Jesse ? There be many servants now-a-days that break away efrery man from his master.'* And then, besides this matter of mistreating inferiors, what a swelling... | |
 | 1836 - 380 pages
...the insulting tenor of Nabal's answer ? MARY. Oh ! the rudest in the world. He said, " Who is David the son of Jesse ? There be many servants now-a-days that break away, every man from his master." And he would give him nothing — not even the " water" he had " provided for his shearers." Why is... | |
 | Samuel Walker - Apostles' Creed - 1836 - 606 pages
...deportment we are but too apt to fall into towards our inferiors ; ' Who is David ? and who is the soil of Jesse ? There be many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.'* And then, besides this matter of mistreating inferiors, what a swelling and boasting has there always... | |
 | Abolitionists - 1836 - 444 pages
...there is reference to the existence of slavery, and to the escape of slaves from their masters — " there be many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master." In the 4th and 5th chapters of Nehemiah, the existence of slavery is mentioned; and David, the man... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...there is reference to the existence of slavery, and to the escape of slaves from their masters — " there be many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master." In the 4th and 5th chapters of Nehemiah, the existence of slavery is mentioned; and David, the man... | |
 | Michael Russell - Eretz Israel - 1837 - 432 pages
...rustic to whom he sent them, as from the effect which a refusal produced upon their ardent tempera. " Who is David ? and who is the son of Jesse \ There...that break away every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...disappointment by the sarcastic taunt with which he communicated it to them ; " Who is David ?* said he, " and who is the son of Jesse ? There be many servants...that break away, every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...David, and ' ceased. And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who ••• David? and who » art, that, as a man chasteneth his son, to the LORD thy God 6 chasteneth tbee. Therefore thou 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my s flesh that 1 have killed for 12 my shearers,... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1839 - 738 pages
...all present follow Tiis example.— ROBERTS. Ver. 10. And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, upon the mountains." — PAXTON. Ver. 28. So Joab...all the people stood still, and pursued after Isra When a man has gained some ascendency over others, or when he assumes authority which is offensive... | |
 | lady Sydney Morgan - 1840 - 782 pages
...answer full of insolence to a solicitation of more than Oriental courtesy. " Who is David?" he asks : " Who is the son of Jesse ? There be many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master. And shall 1 take my bread, and meat, and water, prepared for my own shearers, and give it to men whom... | |
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Who is David ? and who is the son of Jesse ? there be many servants nowa-days that break away every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence... 
