 | Bible - 1799 - 224 pages
...peculiar favour. Amidst all this honour, however, one thing mortified him : " All this," said he, " availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." MORDECAI AT THE KING'S GATE. It has been intimated that Mordecai held some office... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto •aer also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Then said Zeresh his wife, and all his friends unto Mm, Let a gallows be made of... | |
 | Charles Rollin - Education - 1803 - 472 pages
...and every one bowed the knee to him, except Mordecai. [r] Yet, says he to his friends in confidence, all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sittitig at the king's gate. M. Racine did not forget this ch> cumstance, and has made a very happy... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...banquet that she had prepared but myself ; and tomor13 row 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 ; to see him continue his place at court, is as odious ať 14 if I had lost my all.... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 474 pages
...is— gentle*— •?>•,,,- J34 SERMON VII. On the Disorders of the Passions. ESTHER, v. 13. Tet all this availeth me nothing, so long , as I 'see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate. 160 SERMON VIII. On our Ignorance of Good and Evil in this Life. ECCLESIASTES,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 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,... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...platted the scourge under which ha writhes. Let us go back to the best of books for the next example. "All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." All what ? Almost everything that heart could desire. Haman had marvellous riches,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...and he laid him dowo upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. Esth. v. 13, Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 1 Cor. x. 1O. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...the King had promoted him> could yield him tranquillity and happiness. Hearken to his own confession. All this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew. sit ting at the King's gate*. — But from this cause of disquietude Godliness set* its followers free-... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 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,' See it also in Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. 4. * And Ahab came into his house, heavy and... | |
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Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 
