 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...malignity, or ill will towards the offender. Of Simeon and Levi, Jacob said, " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel." And this is often the case with men, when they recompense evil for evil. But though we read of the fierce... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1816 - 754 pages
...human passions tended to sin, censured it as abominable ; Cursed be their anger, for it was Jierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. And to this he added a terrible sentence, / will dhide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Fath. I have heard much of men's governing their passions,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1826 - 100 pages
...adopt the language of the pious Patriarch, on another occasion and say — " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath for it was cruel !" And with respect to the heat and violence which are alledged to have been indulged in the proceedings of... | |
 | 1830 - 542 pages
...fatal to thy peace and independence have been the dissentions of thy chiefs! "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel and fatal in its effects." Having thus briefly sketched the causes which led to the settlement of the Normans... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 428 pages
...all excursions of human passions tended to sin, censured it as abominable ; Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel. And to this he added a terrible sentence, I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Fa. I have heard much of men's governing their... | |
 | Benjamin Hanbury - 1844 - 686 pages
...cruelty are in their habitatiom ' — which, ver. 6, is termed ' Assembly ' — ' cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel :' and we each one say, ' O my soul, come not thou into their secret ; unto » Isai. Uv. 17. '' Rom. x. 12.... | |
 | 1912 - 880 pages
...warriors who "left nothing that breathed," we are inclined to say with Jacob: "Cursed be their anger, for It was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel," and. again: "Instruments of cruelty are In their habitations, O my soul; come not thou Into their secret."... | |
 | William R. Williams - 1850 - 412 pages
...domestic wrong, and as their dying father, in denouncing their conduct, said, " Cursed be their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath for it was cruel:" and he added in the name of his God, " I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel."* Read the... | |
 | William R. Williams - 1850 - 448 pages
...domestic wrong, and as their dying father, in denouncing their conduct, said, " Cursed be their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath for it was cruel :" and he added in the name of his God, " I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel."* Read the... | |
 | Rowland Williams - 1866 - 478 pages
...extermination of whole nations, so often palliated ; though the patriarch might say, " Cursed their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel ;" and Christ might warn, " He who takes the sword, shall perish by the sword." 15. Joel's conflict is painted... | |
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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel. 
