"Requital" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lived before Christianity was proclaimed, if Christianity was the only way of salvation; objections to the severity of St. Peter in the death of Ananias; and the inscrutable mystery of an infinite punishment in requital for finite sin. (Aug. Retract. b. ii. c. 31. vol. i. p. ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... us, do they not see us? let me kiss thee, let me kiss thee, butler! let but this be done, and all the benefit, requital and happiness I can promise thee for't, shall be this—I'll be thy rich master, and thou shalt ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various
... series of divine favours and of human ingratitude, of ample preparations for righteous living and of no result, of messengers sent and their contumelious rejection. We wonder at the sad monotony of such requital. ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... suffer requital for his irreverence, so Shem and Japheth received a reward for the filial, deferential way in which they took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walking backward, with averted faces, covered the nakedness of their father. Naked the descendants ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... and bad us eat; which we were not fitted to do, having not long before eaten a hearty Dinner of better fare; yet could not but thankfully accept of their compassion and kindness, and eat as much as we could; and in requital of their courtesie, we gave them some of our Tobacco. Which after much entreating they did receive, and it ...
— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox
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