 | 1823 - 594 pages
...their children, instead of correcting their quarrelsome temper 1 How much better was Abram's conduct. " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen. To act otherwise, not only teaches your children to set far too great a value on the passing circumstances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 pages
...fury of the factious, exclaiming to those of the other party, in the words of the Patriarch, — " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between thy herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we be brethren." — No pacific overture could possibly obtain audience.... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1824 - 630 pages
...— ' him to tolerate a neighbour: his condition is precisely that of Abram, when he said unto Lot, " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and...thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen : for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: IF THOU WILT... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Africa - 1824 - 638 pages
...there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen: for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: IF THOU WILT TAKR THE LEFT"feAND, THJCN" I WILL GO TO THE RIGHT; OR, IF THOU DEPART TO THE RIGHT-HAND, THEN i WILL... | |
 | William Charles Wentworth - Australia - 1824 - 428 pages
...wilderness which would lie before him, that he might exclaim in the language of Abraham to Lot ; " Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before us ? Separate thyself,... | |
 | William Charles Wentworth - Australasia - 1824 - 444 pages
...wilderness which would lie before him, that he might exclaim in the language of Abraham to Lot ; " Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before us ? Separate thyself,... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...between you. This consideration had a sweet influence upon Abraham's heart. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen ; for we be brethren^Gen. xiii. 8. That is a sweet word in the psalmist,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - Greece - 1824 - 316 pages
...between the herdsmen of Abraham's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle; and Abraham said unto Lot; let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between «ay herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before 'lice? separate thyself,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Social Science - 1824 - 292 pages
...a .smile of that conciliating spirit, which prompted the patriarch's exhortation to his kinsman, " let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for rre be brethren." CHAPTER XI. ''Geutly on him had gentle Nature laid... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...and whatsoever tends to provohe, divide, or disturb the Peace among Brethren. ABRAM said unto Lot, let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, &c. for we be brethren, &c. If thou wilt take the left hand, then 1 will go to the right; or if thou... | |
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Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right... 
