Fondare 168 Risultati per: Cup
Needs must you should hand over cities you have occupied, revenues of Gentile lands you have detained, (1 Maccabees 15, 30)
Here was news to make the king doubt whether the Jews were loyal to him, and back he came from Egypt in a great taking of rage. He occupied the city, and that by force of arms; (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
These, by a very courageous assault, they occupied, and cut down all they met, putting not less than twenty thousand men to the sword; (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
but oh, the dregs of that cup are bitter; a two-edged sword brings no sharper pang. (Proverbs 5, 4)
What am I, the wisdom that speaks to you? To shrewdness I am a near neighbour, and I occupy myself with deep designs; (Proverbs 8, 12)
A good wife found is treasure found; the Lord is filling thy cup with happiness. (A good wife cast away is treasure cast away; leave to fools, and godless fools, the adulterous embrace.✻ ) (Proverbs 18, 22)
Rid silver of dross, and the cup shines bright; (Proverbs 25, 4)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
Gaze not on the beauty of human kind, nor occupy thyself much with women; (Ecclesiasticus 42, 12)
would reach out his hand for the cup, and with the grape’s blood offer libation. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 16)
Ay, gape and gaze as you will; hum and haw you, bemused ere you lifted cup, besotted ere you have been at your wine, besotted with never a taste of drink! (Isaiah 29, 9)
Up, up, Jerusalem, bestir thyself! It was a draught of his vengeance the Lord gave thee to drink; ay, thou hast drunk deep of a cup that numbs the senses, drained it to the dregs. (Isaiah 51, 17)
