 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.  A Philosophical Dictionary - Pàgina 472per Voltaire - 1843Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1856 - 492 pàgines
...Ver. 18. " There be three things which are too wonderful for me, and four which I know not. Ver. 19. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon the rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. Ver. 20. This... | |
 | John Kitto - 1856 - 750 pàgines
...obey his mother, the ravens of '"the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 18 T b 0 wliich I know not : 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the way of... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 pàgines
...establish, namely, the observant spirit of children, and its legitimate application manifested by the young. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on the rocks, the way of a ship upon the sea — these things, said Solomon, wera difficult to know... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1859 - 808 pàgines
...one would swear a thousand times, are good and honest men. The way of men in their sins, it is like ' n bpw maid, ' saith Solomon, Pr. m. 19. that is, hiddenly, closely, covertly, burying all under fair pretences,... | |
 | 1859 - 980 pàgines
...obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 18 out of all trouble : and mine eye hath seen Ai* desire upon mine enemies. PSALM : 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the way of a ship in the midst... | |
 | Walter Colton - 1860 - 476 pàgines
...The great Hebrew proverbialist says there are three things about which there is no certainty,—the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon...rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and he might have added— the way of a thread of gold in a vein of California quartz; but probably California,... | |
 | George Vicesimus Wigram - 1860 - 830 pàgines
...astray in an evil way, 18. perverse (in his) ways shall fall at 29:27. upright in the way 30: 19. 'Phe way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the tcay of a thip in the midst of the sea; anil the w •!./ ofu man with a maid. 20. Such (is) the way... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pàgines
...to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it 18 aid unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the way of a ship in the midst... | |
 | C N. Bovee - 1862 - 260 pàgines
...the search would not go unrewarded. Witness the following confession of Agur. It is exquisite: — " There be three things which are too wonderful for...the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." Wit and Self-Complacency—Wit is usually allied with a certain self-complacency. Thus, the... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1862 - 378 pàgines
...Ruey, " I remember, when I was a girl, old Aunt Jerushy Hopkins used to dwell on this Scriptur', ' There be three things which are too wonderful for...of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a mat with a maid.' She used to say it as a kind o' caution to me, when she used... | |
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