...the peculiar favour. Amidst all this honour, however, one thing mortified him: "All this," said he, " availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." MORDECAI AT THE KING'S GATE. It has been intimated that Mordecai held some office at the Persian court....

...and every one bowed the knee to him, except Mordecai. [r] Yet, says he to his friends in confidence, all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sittitig at the king's gate. M. Racine did not forget this ch> cumstance, and has made a very happy...

...banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomor13 i-ow am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate ; to tee him continue hin filace at court, is as odious as 14 if I had bat my all. Then said Zeresh...

...both with the king and queen ; and, at last, after all his sunshine, sets in this cloudy epilogue, Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. It is seldom seen, that God allows, even to the greatest darlings of the world, a perfect contentment....

...both with the king and queen ; and, at last, after all his sunshine, sets in this cloudy epilogue, Yet all this availeth me -nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. It is seldom seen, that God allows, even to the greatest darlings of the world, a perfect contentment....

...prepared but myself; and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king. 13 Yet all this avaHeth ldest not hear. 17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am 14 f Then said Teresh his wife and all his friends unto him, I;et a gallows be nittde of fifty cubits...

...prepared but myself; and to. morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availetb me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Then said Zeresh his wife, and all his friends untp him, Let a gallows be inade oftifty cubits high,...

...laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. Esther v. 13. Vet a« this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at U* king's gate. 1 Cor. x. 10. Neither murmur ye, a» some of them alw murmured, and were destroyed...

...banquet that she had prepared, but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate,' See it also in Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. 4. * And Ahab came into his house, heavy and displeased, because...

...enviable distinctions, and prosperity; concluding with this bitter and degrading confession ; " Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew, sitting at the king's gate.*" A mere trifling privilege possessed by an humble unaspiring individual, was sufficient to destroy the...