There does seem to be a justice in giving the first chance to the firstborn, although God chose Jacob instead of the elder Esau, and Joseph instead of his older brethren, and there was little David anointed when his brothers were refused.

Yet when young April's husband showers Shall bless the fruitful Maia's bed, We'll bring the firstborn of her flowers To kiss thy feet, and crown thy head: To thee, dear Lamb!

and I have seen a little Grace and a little John and little Elzevir, our firstborn, play; and now our daughter is grown up, fair to us as the polished corners of the Temple, and our sons are gone out to serve King George on sea and land.

May Serah destroy his firstborn; may he torture his flesh, and load his feet with chains.

'Jesus Christ is in the proper sense [Greek: idios] the only Son begotten of God, being His Word [Greek: logos] and Firstborn Power'

Just as he was beginning to recover, in April, his firstborn died.

It is after this manner that Camillus and his firstborn dwell together.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Upon my bosom you have rested; my breasts once gave you nourishment; my hands once ministered to you; my arms sheltered you, and my heart loved you and mourned you like a mother loves and mourns her firstborn.

I carried my firstborn in my arms round the drawing-room when she was a week old, and I have done other things equally brave, the enumeration of which I spare you.

1. The children of Israel were required to purchase their firstborn from under the obligations of the priesthood, Num. xviii.

Does this prove that their firstborn were or are, held as property?

1. The children of Israel were required to purchase their firstborn from under the obligations of the priesthood, Num. xviii.

Does this prove that their firstborn were or are, held as property?

The sovereignty of thy father Seb hath, been given unto thee, and the goddess Nut, thy mother, who gave birth to the gods, brought thee forth as the firstborn, of five gods, and created thy beauties and fashioned thy members.

2. SHU was the firstborn son of Temu.

(14) BEB or BABA, who was the "firstborn son of Osiris."

Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression; the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

or at last, perhaps, the old question, 'Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

That one man, at least, has been born into the world spotless and free from sin, that He might be the firstborn of many brethren.

I could get you to meet Mickhe mayn't be so personable as our Peter," he reflected, with evident pride in his weedy firstborn, and he got no farther, for I had been as a yeast-bottle bubbling up, and now went off bang!

I think the nurse was a full hour bathing and dressing my firstborn, who protested with a melancholy wail every blessed minute.

They had been so misled by one author, who assured them that the stomach of a child could only hold one tablespoonful, that they nearly starved their firstborn to death.

There is something humorously pathetic in the death of the Revolutionthat firstborn of Miss Anthony.

We read with amazement that one of the plans of the mother, ambitious for her firstborn, was to make of him a Roman Catholic priest.