Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose
HILDA WADE A WOMAN WITH TENACITY OF PURPOSE By Grant Allen 1899 PUBLISHERS' NOTE In putting before the public the last work by Mr. Grant Allen, the publishers desire to express their deep regret at the author's unexpected and lamented death--a regret in which they are sure to be joined by the many thousand readers whom he did so much to entertain. A man of curiously varied and comprehensive knowledge, and with the most charming personality; a writer who, treating of a wide variety of
hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
13:021:001 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel.
13:021:002 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go,
number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number
of them to me, that I may know it.
13:021:003 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times
so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not
all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this
thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
13:021:004 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to
Jerusalem.
13:021:005 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David.
And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred
thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred
threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
13:021:006 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the
king's word was abominable to Joab.
HILDA WADE A WOMAN WITH TENACITY OF PURPOSE By Grant Allen 1899 PUBLISHERS' NOTE In putting before the public the last work by Mr. Grant Allen, the publishers desire to express their deep regret at the author's unexpected and lamented death--a regret in which they are sure to be joined by the many thousand readers whom he did so much to entertain. A man of curiously varied and comprehensive knowledge, and with the most charming personality; a writer who, treating of a wide variety of