...language, which speaks of this their "free handling in a becoming spirit," in the very words of Isaac, " The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." There is the semblance of reverence, but the reality is not what it assumes to be. In the following...

...son Esau or no : He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said : The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands, are the hands of Esau. Arid he knew him not, because his hairy hands make him like to the elder. Then blessing him,...

...a prize-fighter, seems as though it were a mere form preliminary to the battle. " The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau." He formally proposes terms of reconciliation, according to his own idea of the relative position...

...punishment for his crime, when his father passed his hands over him. ' The voice,' said the old man, ' is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.' But he was satisfied : the feel of the hands and fresh smell of the raiment prevailed over the...

...touch he might ascertain whether it were really his son Esau. Having felt his hands, he exclaimed, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Once more he inquires, "Art thou indeed my very son Esau ?" With a firmness and persistency...

...countrymen." I perceive the mind and taste of Northcote impressed on many passages in these volumes : — " The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Northcote, amid these literary toils, did not wholly forsake his easel: his chief labours were...

...son Esau or no. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said : The voice, indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing him, he...

...and prove whether you are my son Esau or not.' And when Isaac felt him, he said, ' The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.' Then he blessed him, and said, ' Art thou my son Esau ?' And Jacob deceived him again, and said,...

...say, in reply to whatever clamorous professions of democracy, with the bewildered patriarch of old, " The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Not only, however, is this the American principle, but it is the true principle of the State....

...Esau or not.' He came near to his father; and when ho had felt him, Isaac said, ' The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau ;' and he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to the elder. Then, blessing him,...