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" His hand is against every man; and every man's hand is against him. "
Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 627
1809
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Love Or Lucre: A Novel

Robert Black - 1878 - 298 pages
...all alone by hisself; I'm talkin', recollect, of the strugglin' man that means to succeed. Well, that man's hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him ; that man can look nowhere but to hisself for any encouragement ; that man gets his bare pay for workin'...
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The Aryan Household: Its Structure and Its Development, an Introduction to ...

William Edward Hearn - Civilization, Aryan - 1878 - 512 pages
...He must begin life anew. He belongs* to no brotherhood, is subject to no custom, has no hearth. His hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him. But man is a social animal, and the scattered elements of society, by an unfailing attraction, gravitate...
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The Gospel in All Lands, Volumes 3-4

Methodist Church - 1881 - 616 pages
...that he has been treated by all nations, not BO much like an Israelite, as like an Ishmaelite, whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him. 5. It is a remarkable fact that in the wide-spread dispersion of the Jews, east, west, north, and south,...
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A Monograph, on Privately-illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania

Daniel Melancthon Tredwell - Illustrated books - 1881 - 178 pages
...complaining tone pervades the entire work. It calls an illustrator the " Ishmaelite of Collectors, whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him." And, again, to those who take pleasure in reconnoitering in unlikely places for books, it applies the...
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Wit and Humor of the Age: Comprising Wit, Humor, Pathos, Ridicule, Satires ...

Mark Twain - American wit and humor - 1883 - 816 pages
...desolate, forlorn creature, trembling, yet defiant — a Pariah of society — an Ishmaelite, whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him. The Pharisees of the world gather up the skirts of their selfrighteous propriety, as they sweep superciliously...
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Studies in Literature

Titus Munson Coan - Bible - 1883 - 288 pages
...sound argument. Thus the title of one of their pamphlets describes Papebrock as " the new Ishmael whose hand is against every man and every man's hand is against him." It is evident, however, that they felt the literary battle going against them, inasmuch as in 1696...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 43

Literature - 1883 - 948 pages
...sound argument. Thus the title of one of their pamphlets describes Papebrock as " the new Ishmael whose hand is against every man and every man's hand is against him." It is evident, however, that they felt the literary battle going against them, inasmuch as in 1G9G...
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The Pulpit record and Mutual improvement society, Parliamentary debating ...

1883 - 666 pages
...reminds me of that passage in the Book of Genesis, in which it is said that Ishmael is a man whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him. Ishmael may be said to be emblematical of the Established Eeligion of this country. Ineednotgointo...
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Slander and Defamation of Character: The Great Crimes of the Nineteenth Century

Thomas D. Worrall - Libel and slander - 1884 - 218 pages
...loss of self-respect makes a man misanthropic. Under its influence, he becomes a veritable Esau. " His hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him." What so likely to turn a man into a demon as slander. In another chapter we have contended that human...
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The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie, Volume 10

Alexander Montgomerie - Scotland - 1887 - 504 pages
...his tone to the counsel. In short, he is an Ishmaelite so far as law and lawyers are concerned. His hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him. Eventually the grant was renewed and confirmed by a writ of privy seal, 1 Son. xviii.-xxiv. a Son....
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