 | Caroline Fry Wilson - 1867 - 510 pages
...indiscriminate sarcasm. These cases are beyond our reach — the curse of Ishmael is upon them — their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. The mischief is in the depth of a malignant heart, and Heaven alone can mend it. Doubtless, there are... | |
 | John Philip Newman - Sermons - 1876 - 378 pages
...fall in their way ; and they frequently rob each other with as little ceremony as they do a stranger. Their hand is against every man and every man's hand is against them. Their conduct has provoked the wrath of the mightiest nations of the past and present, but they have... | |
 | Agriculture - 1877 - 470 pages
...Bat ve must speak low and with bated breath whilst considering his case. The others are bhmaelites: their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. But hares and rabbits are a peculiar people. Laws are made for their especial protection, and they... | |
 | Jews - 1877 - 628 pages
...the greatest curse of England) — viz., drunkenness. The Bedouins are the descendants of Ishmael ; " their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them." (Gen. xvi. 12.) They are naturally robbers. They sleep in the open air, or under tents (the black tents... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1878 - 558 pages
...individuality add the isolation of low and grasping aims. Thev have no moral purposes, but are for self. Their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. They prowl about, seeking to prey upon their fellow-men, as much alone among men as the tiger prowling... | |
 | George Rawlinson - Assyria - 1879 - 622 pages
...in the main possessed, are a warlike race, accustomed from infancy to arms and inured to combat. " Their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them." Yet they tremble if a lion is but known to be near,7 and can only with the utmost difficulty be persuaded... | |
 | William Lincoln (of Beresford chapel.) - Bible - 1880 - 252 pages
...which has been fulfilling from that day even down to the present. Still is it true of the Ishmaelites, their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. Yet they live, though the word concerning them was pronounced three thousand years ago. And if this... | |
 | George Rawlinson - History, Ancient - 1885 - 782 pages
...in the main possessed, are a warlike race, accustomed from infancy to arms and inured to combat. " Their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. " Yet they tremble if a lion is but known to be near,;!2S and can only with the utmost difficulty be... | |
 | John McDowell Leavitt - Apologetics - 1900 - 248 pages
...traffickers in human flesh. At this moment England is fighting them in the Soudan. Always and every169 where "their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them." Yet, as predicted, they "DWELL in the presence of their brethren." Hated by all, they survive all.... | |
 | Samuel Marinus Zwemer, Amy E. Zwemer - Arabian Peninsula - 1911 - 168 pages
...neglected class in this great neglected country are the Bedouins, or nomads. Like Ishmael of ARABIA old, "their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them." Hated alike by the town dwellers and the Turks, they are the roving gypsies of the Orient, and yet... | |
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They are a wild people ; their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. 
