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... reason why thoughts which can be expressed in the noblest forms should be clothed in inferior forms simply to avoid a citation . But I may be permitted to account for the fact by saying that my translation has lain upon my desk for a ...
... reason why thoughts which can be expressed in the noblest forms should be clothed in inferior forms simply to avoid a citation . But I may be permitted to account for the fact by saying that my translation has lain upon my desk for a ...
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... reason , in the Poem itself , why it should not be as well and intimately known , even to readers of the most limited education , as any one of Shakespeare's plays , and no reason why it should not become far more precious and ...
... reason , in the Poem itself , why it should not be as well and intimately known , even to readers of the most limited education , as any one of Shakespeare's plays , and no reason why it should not become far more precious and ...
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... reason to believe that Job dwelt , and suffered , and died , and in the upper part of it , north of Edom , north even of Moab , within easy reach of Damascus itself . The Arabs who live in this district to - day claim it as " the land ...
... reason to believe that Job dwelt , and suffered , and died , and in the upper part of it , north of Edom , north even of Moab , within easy reach of Damascus itself . The Arabs who live in this district to - day claim it as " the land ...
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... reason conceive of Job as living , during the remote patriarchal age , amid the fertile plains of the Hauran - so fertile that even now its wheat ( " Batanæan wheat , " as it is called ) " is always at least twenty - five per cent ...
... reason conceive of Job as living , during the remote patriarchal age , amid the fertile plains of the Hauran - so fertile that even now its wheat ( " Batanæan wheat , " as it is called ) " is always at least twenty - five per cent ...
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... reason , most Commentators assume it to be derived from a Hebrew verb which signifies to fight against , to persecute : in which case , the word being here used in its passive sense , it would mean " the persecuted one , " the man who ...
... reason , most Commentators assume it to be derived from a Hebrew verb which signifies to fight against , to persecute : in which case , the word being here used in its passive sense , it would mean " the persecuted one , " the man who ...
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admit affirms afflicted allusion Almighty ancient answer appeal Arab argument Barachel Bildad Book of Job calamities Chap Chapter charge Cheaper Edition Chokmah cloth Colloquy conclusion condemn confess conviction darkness death Demy 8vo despair Divine Divine Providence doubt earth Elihu Eliphaz evil eyes facts fear Friends give God's guilt Hadean Hades hand hath Hauran heart heaven Hebrew hope human Illustrations iniquity innocent integrity Jehovah Job's Judge justice kesitah light lips look Lord mind misery moral mouth mystery natural noble once passion phrase Poem Poet post 8vo price 35 proverbs punishment rendered reply resentment retributive righteousness Satan Second Edition sense shew simply sinner sins Small crown 8vo soul speak spirit suffer sure Temanite tempest thee Theophany thou thought tion tone touch Translated true truth utter Verse 13 vindicate whole wicked wisdom words wrong Zophar
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