 | 1833 - 776 pages
...Israelites how great a blessing was good government, from observing how ill it fared with the land X M ۚF u t! W ¶I ( _9 S> z9 4J]c 7X: + N ֬ as if all modern history was to be a comment upon, and confirmation of, the word of God, we see from... | |
 | 1838 - 668 pages
...exclusively protestant constitution and government of this nation ; until Great Britain be like unto Israel, when every man did that which was right in his own eyes ; and then, this nation, like Israel, may be delivered into the hands of her enemies, or may probably be... | |
 | Alexander Dyce Davidson - 1859 - 336 pages
...their leader, and take possession of the promised land. We surveyed the troublous times of the Judges, when every man did that which was right in his own eyes; and then we saw the whole nation united under the government of a king. The eventful history of David,... | |
 | Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) - 1865 - 522 pages
...administration of Othniel. They happened, we are assured, when there was no king or governor in Israel, and when every man did that which was right in his own eyes ; and perhaps there is no period in the annals of this remarkable people, to which the characteristic description... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1868 - 726 pages
...Norman could look up as every Englishman had looked up to the mighty Primate, and the bowl CHAP. vin. and the dagger soon deprived the young Prince of the...nobles of Normandy was commonly rebellion against their sovereign, ruthless oppression utte of those beneath them, and endless deadly feuds with *° one another.... | |
 | 1870 - 876 pages
...anarchy into society similar to that which existed in the days in which there was no King in Israel, when " every man did that which was right in his own eyes." And as by natural reaction a state of anarchy is generally followed by a reign of despotism — as the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1873 - 510 pages
...Clarissima R. Olaber, iv. J, with a more general olim patria, intestinis dissensionibus exulce- application. guardians perhaps no less well disposed to fulfil...nobles of Normandy was commonly rebellion against their sovereign, ruthless oppression of those beneath them, and endless deadly feuds with one another. We... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...magnificent relic of the men who were the scourge of Poland and Crim-Tartary, in the grim old days when every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and wrong in those of every one else. Among these men I had been domiciled for weeks, and had enjoyed,... | |
 | Samuel Pearson - 1874 - 202 pages
...details of Mosaic commands ; at others it broke away from all restraint, and became a spiritual anarchy, when every man did that which was right in his own eyes ; and then, under some of the prophets, there came times of true revival. While there were a few who all... | |
 | William Lincoln (of Beresford chapel.) - 1874 - 232 pages
...Trumpets sounding will introduce, will more resemble the period at the close of the book of Judges, when every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and when one of the tribes of Israel had almost perished from the land, amid the discord and display of... | |
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They read of the brave times when there was no king in Israel, when every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and sat under his own vine and his own fig-tree, none daring to make him afraid. 
