 | Etiquette - 1826 - 320 pages
...banquet that she had prepared, but myself ; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also rvith the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. It is to no purpose to exempt some, even from real evils — they will... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 620 pages
...banquet, that she had prepared, but myself, and to-morrow am I invited unto her, also, with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's gate." III. Let us observe the evils of which ambition is always productive.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...to-morrow also am I invited to her with the king." After all this .preamble, what is the conclusion] u Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew, sitting at the king's gate." 8 The sequel of Hainan's history, I shall not now pursue. It might afford... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1826 - 488 pages
...the throne of Persia, his happiness depended upon the homage which a despised Israelite withheld ? All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate. Few symptoms of a declining, or rebellious state of heart are more unequivocal,... | |
 | Abigail F. Mott - Child rearing - 1827 - 144 pages
...trifling a circumstance is capable of destroying that enjoyment which is built on pride and ambition. " All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." When he ceased speaking, his wife, who appears to have cherished the same... | |
 | Eli Meeker (Rev) - 1827 - 414 pages
...did he not richly enjoy the favours confered on him ? One reason he assigns in the words of the text: All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see MordeCai, the Je\vf sitting at the king's gate. 2d. We should not be envious towards others ; because, this, spirit... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 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... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 538 pages
...miserable in a palace. Haman, after telling his wife and his friends all his promotion and glory, adds, Yet all this availeth me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. On that night could not the king sleep. " Tired Nature's sweet restorer,... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - Providence and government of God - 1829 - 442 pages
...banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's M gate. Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...banquet that she had prepared, but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. " People often wonder at your uneasiness; but the heart knoweth his own... | |
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Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 
