 | John Millar, John Craig - Political Science - 1806 - 470 pages
...I should give her to another man: " abide with me. " And Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and " they seemed unto him but a few days, for the " love he had to herf." In the compositions of Ossian, which describe the manners of a people acquainted with pasturage,... | |
 | John Ovington - Marriage - 1813 - 168 pages
...in the paths of obedience ; and the best services, if not neglected, are indifferently performed.' It is said of Jacob, that he served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed but af ew days, because of the love he had for her. 'I his is a description of the genuine... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 654 pages
...Gen. xxxi. 40. Jacob patiently endured all this labour and distress, and the years of his servitude seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to jiaclul. Gen. xxix. 20. In the same manner, thou wilt joyfully endure all the fatigues of thine office,... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - Great Britain - 1837 - 226 pages
...The blood of the murdered will God require at my hand." CHAPTER VI. " And he served seven years, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had." — GENESIS, xxix. 20. NIGEL'S chief study had been to please every one, and the sweetness of his temper,... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1838 - 234 pages
...faithful performance of his engagement. He persevered till it was complete^, and the time, we are told, " seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to Rachel." At his expiration he claimed a fulfilment of the engagement on the part of Laban. What was... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Industrial arts - 1861 - 490 pages
...together ; although he can seldom, like the patriarch, say, even of the shorter time, that the " years seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to " his art. No wonder, then, that the public is sometimes astonished by seeing our fellowship-initials... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1841 - 608 pages
...prospect of the promised recompense made the tedious service appear as nothing to Jacoh. The seven years " seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had unto her." Of the hundred and thirty years of Jacob's life, concerning which he testified to the king... | |
 | John Tricker Conquest - 1846 - 868 pages
...1 should give her to another man : abide with me. And 20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he bad to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my 21 wife, for my dayi are fulfilled, that I may go... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 698 pages
...assiduity to the laborious duties of a merchant. Time will fly, even with lovers waiting for their union. It is said of Jacob that he served seven years for Rachel, and it seemed but as a few days for the love he had to her ; and while this touching expression conveys... | |
 | John Willison - Christian life - 1851 - 356 pages
...cross, especially when he himself bears the heaviest end of it; nay, bears you and your cross both. It is said of Jacob, that "he served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her." Gen. 29:20. And shall we not endure... | |
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And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had for her. 
