Useful Reflections on Several Subjects: Suited to the Present Times: Each Chapter Beginning with a Diverting Fable; to which is Added a Proper Moral: with Curious Observations from the Best Histories. Done Into English, from a French Manuscript, by P. B. Du-Bois

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Page 186 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 186 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him, half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Page 200 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you. He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 159 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield : but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 17 - If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
Page 262 - WATCHED, and not have fuffercd his Houfe to be broken through. 40. Be ye therefore ready alfo: for the Son of Man cometh at an Hour when ye think not. 41. Then 'Peter faid unto him, Lord, fpcakcfl thou this Parable unto us, or even to all ? 42.
Page 200 - ... run before his .chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thoufands, and captains over fifties ; and will...
Page 200 - Fifties, and will fet of them to ear his Ground, and to reap his Harveft, and to make his Inftruments of War, and Inftruments of his Chariots.
Page 201 - Jhalt fpeak unto htm , [ayine, thus faith the Lord, In the 'Place where *Dogs licked the Blood of Nahoth, /hall Dogs lick thy Blood, even thine.
Page 110 - Nation^ many near in Alliance, fome in Blood, fatally divided by Faction, yet all animated by the...

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