| Great Britain. Parliament - 1849 - 762 pagina’s
...government in the colonies, but the acts of the Colonial Office did not square with these professions. " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Insurrection and rebellion were the channels to the favour of the Colonial Office; and two millions... | |
| 1850 - 452 pagina’s
...before me.' ChaL ' Because 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23 And he discerned him not, because his q hands were hairy, as his brother, Esau's hands : so... | |
| David Hunter Riddle - 1851 - 28 pagina’s
...children, what would they say? Like the tremulous and sightless Patriarch, would they not exclaim, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau!" Our sons, indeed, but "ah! they've sadly altered!" Such was the spirit, and such were some of... | |
| 1851 - 774 pagina’s
...my very son Esau, or not. 22 And Jacob went near unto Isanc his father; and he felt him, and said, and BrewshЂ4 Esau. 23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands. So he... | |
| 1852 - 510 pagina’s
...are constrained to ask the indulgence of those who survive, while we confess that we miss the dead. " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." And yet the heart, though relentless Time may substitute another for the first-born of its affections,... | |
| 1852 - 870 pagina’s
...erring scholasticism, and sometime* enveloped in inconsistenc.es and expressed in a nervous style. '• The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." The substance of our theology is Calvinistic; here it is old. Much of its self-consistency is... | |
| 1852 - 510 pagina’s
...are constrained to ask the indulgence of those who survive, while we confess that we miss the dead. " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." And yet the heart, though relentless Time may substitute another for the first-born of its affections,... | |
| 1852 - 454 pagina’s
...disabled is, with Edwards, only Io ''disinclined. in inconsistencies and expressed in a nervous style. " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." The substance of our theology is Calvinistic ; here it is old. Much of its self-consistency... | |
| Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1852 - 926 pagina’s
...light slumber, by finding herself repeating aloud in soliloquy these strangely suggested words : " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau !" CHAPTER VIII. Oh ! she is guileless as the birds That sing beside the summer brooks : With... | |
| J A N. M - 1853 - 262 pagina’s
...whether he was indeed his very son Esau or not. When the good old man had felt his hands, he said, " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Having now nothing but his son's veracity to depend upon, he asked him pointedly, " Art thou... | |
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