And when he came near the city with the message of peace, beholding the hardness of their hearts, he wept over it, and took up a lamentation over it, because he saw they rejected his mercy, which was tidings of peace.
Here also will be a reward for all that hardness and Christian enduring of affliction that thou hast met with for thy Lord, while thou wast in the world.
All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
The meaning is, that God in punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long abuse of his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and so given them up to error and hardness of heart.
And I say to you that Moses, through the children of Israel's hardness of heart, and knowing their proclivity to idolatry, forbade them to make images.
When the Pharisees asked our Lord why Moses had allowed a bill of divorce, He answered: 'On account of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wife, but in the beginning it was not so.
But if we may be allowed to judge through the medium of a translation, there is a certain hardness in the manner of treating the character, which in some degree defeats the effect.
I discern his hand in particular parts, but I cannot recognize his spirit in the conception of the whole: he may have laid on some of the colors, but the original design has a certain hardnessand heaviness, very unlike his usual style.
She felt a need for justifying her increasing hardness of heart and when she regarded herself sadly in the mirror she was reassured.
Its hardness and coldness reassured her of she knew not what.
The Northerner's hardness is on the surface; his core, his inner being, is apt to quaver in a state of fluid irresponsibility.
But what was going to happen when all this mud, baked by the sun into the hardness of brick, covered the island?
They are mostly composed of a red porphyritic stone, somewhat resembling the pipe stone of the «Coteau des Prairies», excepting that it is of greathardness and interspersed with small variously colored granules.
The hardness which they seem to possess, beyond the copper of commerce, is no doubt due to the hammering to which they were subjected in their manufacture.
Carnac liked the new-comer for his healthy bearing, for the iron hardness of his head, and for the intelligence of his dark eyes.
The moment's softness she had felt was gone, and hardness returned.
The one producing a temper of hardness and ferocity, the other of softness and effeminacy, I replied.
Twas as if the flood of her joy had swept away all hardness and disdain.
This kind ofhardness I should attribute to a miscarriage of thought, or a failure, from want of manipulative skill, to produce the desired effect.
It seems strange to make a merit as we do of youth, of inexperience, of hardness of heart.
If, however, one were to urge this solemnly, Mr. Haldane's friends could easily reply that he only gave us such examples on account of the hardness of our hearts.
Hardness and softness are effects on us of atomic interactions, and the atoms themselves are neither hard nor soft, nor solid nor liquid.
It dents them; is impenetrable by them; and we call the hardness then a physical hardness.
Three tubes of the 155-millimeter guns suspended at furnace ready for heating and quenching to give them the necessary combination of hardness and toughness.
This "quench" as it is called, produces the required degree of hardness called for by the ordnance officers' design; but the piece has not yet got the required degree of toughness.
Pecan nuts, and all woods ranging in hardness from ironwood down to ordinary pine and fir, were found to be in the second class of efficiency.
This combination of hardness and toughness produced to the proper degree resists the explosive power of the powder and also causes the wear on the gun in firing to be diminished and made as slight as possible.
Portland cement was used, to givehardness and prevent disintegration and the formation of dust in the canister.
His comrade noticed the curious hardness of his face, and the glint in his eyes.
Then he sat moodily silent awhile, with a curious hardness in his lined face.
Dom Clemente had been uniformly courteous, but now and then a just perceptible hardness had crept into his eyes.
She had made a long and gallant fight against adverse circumstances since her husband died, and there was in her face the hardness of one who has more than once been almost beaten.
Oh, sirs, your case in an especial manner is extremely dangerous; your guilt and hardness of heart is extremely great.
And never was there so great danger of such persons being given up to hardness of heart and blindness of mind.
The amount of any particular sample of water which can be softened before renewal depends on the amount of material in the apparatus and the hardness of the water.
Hardness in water may occur in two forms--as temporary hardnessor as permanent hardness.
Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so"--is true.
But since they had declared themselves thus unfaithful, Yahweh had to deal with them at that level, and granted their request as a concession to their unbelief and hardness of heart.
In other and Scriptural words, the hardness of men's hearts made such harshness unavoidable.
She walked on with a firm step, a step that had something of hardness in it, hardness directed solely against herself and the weakness which she was so resolutely determined to overcome.
Into the suavity of his voice had crept a new hardness and into the pale color of his eyes an ominous glint.
Blossom stood silently looking after her, wondering vaguely why that almost resentful note of hardness had rasped in her voice.
The yellow glow of the sinking sun seemed to light him as he stood by the window into a ruddy kinship with bronze, awakening a glint of metallic hardness on cheekbone, temple and dilated nostril.
The tension of the wind upon the bobbin is thus kept uniform, the desired hardness of the wind being secured by the use of a heavier or lighter traveler according to the compactness of cop required.
The doctor then had a candle-box made of the wood, his cabinet-maker also complaining of the hardness of the timber.
It possesses a pale gold color, a hardness surpassing that of bronze, and is susceptible of taking a fine polish.
Its hardness and tenacity render it peculiarly adapted for journals and bearings.
