...one less to the world, and yet more profitable. The elder Cato" preferred a stock of cattle, though but a moderate one, to tillage, which yet he thought...good way off to draw water, and carried it upon her shoulders ;p and Rachel herself kept her father's flock.q Neither their nobility nor beauty made them...

...gave to Laban shews that the patriarchs laboured hard at their work, and did at no time neglect it. I have served thee twenty years, says he : in the day...good way off to draw water, and carried it upon her shoulders ;p and Rachel herself kept her father's flock.' Neither their nobility nor beauty made them...

...it; and of my haml * didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen * by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed * me, and the frost...by night ; and my sleep departed from ' mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; * I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters,...

...gave to Laban shews that the patriarchs laboured hard at their work, and did at no time neglect it. I have served thee twenty years, says he : in the day...good way off to draw water, and carried it upon her shoulders ;p and Rachel herself kept her father's flock.' Neither their nobility nor beauty made them...

...of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. * 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; I served thec fourteen years for thy two daughters,...

...(To be concluded in our next.) ORIENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE LANGUAGE. GENESIS xxxi. 40. — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night." Does a master reprove his servant for being idle? the latter will ask, "What can I do ? the heat eats...

...require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed (he, and" the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and...

...invisible. It was this difference of day and night to which Jacob alluded when he said to Laban," " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night." To this also Jeremiah refers, ch. xxxvi. 30, where he says of Jelioiakiin. king of Judah, that " his...

...the Lord's sheep, than Jacob for those of Laban. Hear what this holy Patriarch professes of himself: In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes, Gen. xxxi. 40. Jacob patiently endured all this labour and distress, and the years of his servitude...

...more sensibly felt. Jacob complained of this hardship, in the ordinary labours of the pastoral life. " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night," Gen. xxxi. 40. What must have been the condition of John the Baptist, had his office consisted in preaching,...