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" Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. "
Calcutta Monthly Journal and General Register ... - Page 114
1838
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Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Volume 1

Samuel Burder - Bible - 1804 - 444 pages
...exactly agreeable to the civil expressions of respect which obtain in the East. No. 164. — xxxi. 35,36. That mine adversary had written a book .' surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me-] From the following extracts it appears what is the...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 5

William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 500 pages
...And again — O that one would hear met Behold my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine Adversary had written a book, Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as: a, CHOW to me$. A phrase apparently taken from* the use of their PHYLACTERIES;...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 504 pages
...And again — <O that one would hear me! Behold my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine Adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as « CKOWK to mc^. A phrase apparently taken fronj the use of their PHYLACTERIES;...
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The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters, Volume 7

Samuel Richardson - English fiction - 1811 - 442 pages
...dare appeal with the same truth and fervour as he did, who says — 0 (hat one mould hear me ! and that mine adversary had written a book ! — Surely, I would take it upon my shoulders, and bind it to me as a crown ! for I covered not my trangressions as Adam, by hiding...
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The works of ... William Huntington ... to the close of the year MDCCCVI.

William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...knees. O that one [God] would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book: surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me: I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as...
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Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by ..., Volume 1

Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 442 pages
...agreeable to the civil expressions of respect which obtain in the East. No. 164. — xxxi. 35, 36. That mine adversary had written a book ! surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a ervwn to me.] From the following extracts it appears what is the...
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Warburton and his quarrels; including an illustration of his literary ...

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1814 - 310 pages
...names of the Writers, with remarks on these Anonymiana. He prefixed to them this motto, from Job : " Behold, my desire is, that mine adversary had written a book : surely I would take' it upon my shoulder, and hind it as a crown to me." c. xxxi. 35. Ruffhead, who wrote Pope's Life under...
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A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos ..., Volume 2

William Ward - Hindu mythology - 1815 - 588 pages
...whom funeral rites have not been performed, wander as ghosts, and find no rest. Job xxxi. 35, 36. " My desire is, that mine adversary had written a book ; surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me." Ifa rich Hindoo present any thing to an inferior,...
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History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos, Volume 2

William Ward - 1817 - 366 pages
...whom funeral rites have not been performed, wander as ghosts, and find no rest. Job xxxi. 35, 36. ' My desire is, that mine adversary had written a book ; surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.' If a rich Hindoo present any thing to an inferior,...
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A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, Volume 2

Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...to which custom holy Job (chap. xxxi. 35, 36.) as they think, seems to allude, when he wishes, " O that mine adversary had written a book! Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me :" For the manner among the Orientals, when they had...
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