 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.  The Monthly Magazine - Pàgina 1201800Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 672 pàgines
...the thought, instead of finding an end of it. It is in an inspired book§ that we read the avowal, There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not. Gibbon|| applauds Cicero for " very honestly confessing," that although he had translated... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1864 - 624 pàgines
...book also, were at fault. Indeed it is said, 18th and 19th vers., 30th proverb, by the wise man, that "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... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1866 - 406 pàgines
...barren womb ; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. . . . 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... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1866 - 394 pàgines
...barren womb ; the earth that is not filled with water ; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. . . . 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... | |
 | 1866 - 396 pàgines
...barren womb ; the earth that is not filled with water ; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. . . . 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... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pàgines
...obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 12 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not : 10 The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the way of a ship... | |
 | Aeronautical Society of Great Britain - 1877 - 556 pàgines
...Solomon, did not overlook the subject of flying, but speaks of it in his book of Proverbs, xxx, 18, 19 — "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," &c. I beg also to... | |
 | 1867 - 1216 pàgines
...obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 18 t because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house I know not; 19 The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a serpent upon a rook ; the way of a ship... | |
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