| 1842 - 530 Seiten
...external conformation, bold courage and wild ferocity mark their character. Like the Ishmaelites of old, whose hand was against every man, and every man's hand against them; the hawk is dreaded and shunned by all the feathered race, and being a common enemy, no opportunity... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 Seiten
...ensued between them. That the Mahratlas, a powerful confederacy, inflamed by conquest, inured to rapine, whose hand was against every man and every man's hand against them, and who could bring two hundred thousand horsemen into the field, should view with apprehension the... | |
| 1850 - 602 Seiten
...Jeru-salem. We plainly see that when their language was crystallizing they must have been a people whose hand was against every man, and every man's hand against them ; and the Bedouins of the present day have precisely the same character, embodied and eternized in... | |
| 1919 - 1188 Seiten
...the patriarchal age is an ideal picture, but it is not idealized from the life of the Semitic nomads, whose hand was against every man and every man's hand against them. If we accept the picture presented in Genesis literally, it displays a miraculous life. And the miracles... | |
| 1867 - 826 Seiten
...as all the nations around them have unquestionably been." And why ? How should it be that a people whose hand was against every man, and every man's hand against them, should yet so completely defy all the attempts which have been made to root them out of their patrimony,... | |
| 1850 - 602 Seiten
...Jeru-salem. We plainly see that when their language was crystallizing they must have been a people whose hand was against every man, and every man's hand against them ; and the Bedouins of the present day have precisely the same character, embodied and eternized in... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 Seiten
...between them. That the Mahrattas — a powerful confederacy, inflamed by conquest, inured to rapine, whose hand was against every man and every man's hand against them, and who could bring two hundred thousand horsemen into the field — should view with apprehension... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 Seiten
...between them. That the Mahrattas — a powerful confederacy, inflamed by conquest, inured to rapine, whose hand was against every man and every man's hand against them, and who could bring two hundred thousand horsemen into the field — should view with apprehension... | |
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