| 1822 - 694 páginas
...truth, repels every attempt at officious decoration; even as Samson " brake the seven green withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire." But who would experience any violent sensation of offended taste, should he meet with playful prettinesses... | |
| 1824 - 486 páginas
...as virtue is in itself more powerful than vice, Spain may break the withs of Kings and Inquisitors as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire ! In vain, therefore, do we search the early history of Europe for a parallel to the case of England,... | |
| William Carr - 1828 - 374 páginas
...term is with. " And she said unto him, the Philistines be upon thee Sampson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken, when it toucheth the fire." Judges xvi. 9. Dr. Johnson has withy, and quotes Evelyn as his authority. WIDE-COAT, Great, or top... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 páginas
...wood, used to catch fire from a flint: touchy is, testy; peevish; easily provoked. He brake the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. Judges xvi. 9. Touch kept is commended, yet credit to keepe Is pay and dispatch him, yer ever ye sleepe.... | |
| 1829 - 1012 páginas
...the chrniber.) And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. 10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold,tbou hast mocked me, and told... | |
| John Thimbleby - 1832 - 92 páginas
...the seven green withes, with which Delilah bound Samson, yet you, like Samson, shall then "break it, as a thread of tow is broken, •when it toucheth the fire." Let your ministers and preachers proclaim this to the world.—Let them shew to all, that, by a simple... | |
| American education society - 1833 - 406 páginas
...disappear before it, as the morning cloud and early dew before the scorching sun. 2 Chronicles, six. Prison doors fly open and chains are burst " as a...degree, and called for the destruction of his people, he could do nothing to them as long аз he (who was the type of Christ) stood between him and them.... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 310 páginas
...remained as entire as ever, and that the secret of it was still in his own breast. " He brake the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire." It was not long, however, before Delilah made another attempt to accomplish her purpose. She saw that... | |
| Faithful friend - 1834 - 138 páginas
...Should we fetter ourselves with these earth-wrought manacles, when we know that we might break them, as a. thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire, if we would apply to Him, who * Matt. xiii 39, t Mai. iii. 0. " giveth power to the faint, and to them... | |
| Joseph Benson (D.D.) - 1835 - 176 páginas
...but as the " green withs" upon the arms of Sampson. With God as thine helper, thou canst break them " as a thread of tow is broken, when it toucheth the fire." Awake, then; put forth thy strength; burst their trammels, and cast them from thee; keep thy vows sacredly;... | |
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