 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...immensity of the wilderness which would lie before him, that he might exclaim in the language of Abram to Lot : ' Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before us ? Separate thyself I... | |
 | Roger O'Connor - Celts - 1822 - 498 pages
...together, and a contendon having arisen between their herdsmen for pasturage, we hear of Abram saying to Lot, " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, for we be brethren, is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me, if... | |
 | Arminianism - 1878 - 1002 pages
...its saddest tone. ' That's bad enough ; isn't it, friends ? But that isn't all. Listen to this here : And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thet, between me and tliee. — Ah ! that's the most dreadful thing about it : ME and thee. The words... | |
 | 1823 - 594 pages
...their children, instead of correcting their quarrelsome temper 1 How much better was Abram's conduct. " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen. To act otherwise, not only teaches your children to set far too great a value on the passing circumstances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 pages
...fury of the factious, exclaiming to those of the other party, in the words of the Patriarch, — " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between thy herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we be brethren." — No pacific overture could possibly obtain audience.... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1824 - 630 pages
...allotted to y i> — ' him to tolerate a neighbour: his condition is precisely that of Abram, when he said unto Lot, " Let there be no strife, I pray thee,...thyself, I pray thee, from me: IF THOU WILT TAKE THE LEFTHAND, THEN I WILL GO TO THE RIGHT; OR, IF THOU DEPART TO THE RIGHT-HAND, THEN i WILL GO TO THE... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Africa - 1824 - 638 pages
...enough allotted to ' him to tolerate a neighbour: his condition is precisely that of Abram, when he said unto Lot, *' Let there be no strife, I pray thee,...Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: IF THOU WILT TAKR THE LEFT"feAND, THJCN" I WILL GO TO THE RIGHT; OR, IF THOU DEPART TO THE RIGHT-HAND, THEN i WILL... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...relation and union that is between you. This consideration had a sweet influence upon Abraham's heart. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen ; for we be brethren^Gen. xiii. 8. That is a sweet word in the psalmist,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - Greece - 1824 - 316 pages
...was a strife between the herdsmen of Abraham's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle; and Abraham said unto Lot; let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between Ťay herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before 'lice? separate thyself,... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...whispering, talc-bearing, and whatsoever tends to provoke, divide, or disturb the Peace among Brethren. ABRAM said unto Lot, let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, &c. for we be brethren, &c. If thou wilt take the left hand, then 1 will go to the right j or if thou... | |
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Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 
