A Handbook of Irish IdiomsSealy, Bryers & Walker, 1898 - 128 pages |
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Page 123 - And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Page 108 - But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
Page 63 - For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye ? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray ? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Page 103 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Page 126 - The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Page 82 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 112 - And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go ; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Page 100 - And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Page 76 - And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you, cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 2 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.