 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 492 pages
...accomplishments, when separated from virtue. SERMON VII. On the DISORDERS of the PASSIONS. ESTHER, v. 13. Zct all this availeth me. nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate. rT\HESE are the words of one, who, though high in station and in power, confessed himself to be miserable.... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...and malice was found at the root of his felicity ; for in the midst of his greatness he exclaimed, " All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate." (Estherv. 13.) Determined to free himself from this source of vexation, he caused a lofty gallows to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 472 pages
...resentment ; and was at that moment stung by disappointment, and torn by rage beyond what he could bear. Ml this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate. — Had this been a soliloquy of Haman's within himself, it would have been a sufficient discovery... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 470 pages
...; and was at that moment stung by disappointment, and torn by rage beyond what he could bear. Jill this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew silting at the King's gate. — Had this been a soliloquy of Hainan's within himself, it would have... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 508 pages
...both with the king and queen ; and, at last, after all his sunshine, sets in this cloudy epilogue,' Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.' It is seldom seen, that God allows, even to the greatest darlings of the world, a perfect contentment.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...to-morrow also am I invited to her with the king." After all this preamble, what is the conclusion ?— " Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." of his mind a-hich they display, the following reflections naturally arise : — 10. Hniv miserable... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824 - 566 pages
...am I invited unto her also with iho VOL. IV. 2 P king:' this aspiring, haughty wretch could add, ' Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Our first parents became discontented with their very nature ; and under the influence of ambition... | |
 | John Fawcett - Anger - 1824 - 218 pages
...torn and distracted by rage, beyond what he was able to bear. He made that humiliating confession : All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's gate. This was not a private soliloquy of Haman's within himself, but a confession which he made to others;... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...full of indignation against Mordecai, &c. And having told his friends of his glory, &c. yet (said he) all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate. — Esth. v. 9 — 13. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1825 - 596 pages
...both with the king and queen ; and, at last, after all his sun-shine, sets in this cloudy epilogue, " Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." It is seldom seen, that God allows, even to the greatest darlings of the world, a perfect contentment... | |
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Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. 
