 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 - Pągina 1201800Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Taylor - 1869 - 422 pągines
...designate such as are in fact rapOivoi. The latter passage, which is much disputed, runs as follows : ' 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... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1869 - 424 pągines
...to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 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... | |
 | 1870 - 1006 pągines
...young eagles shall eat it. 7 Let him drmk.and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. 18 1870 Ame 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she uateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, 1 have done... | |
 | John Miller - 1872 - 760 pągines
...obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not : TO The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship... | |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1876 - 348 pągines
...observant child of nature. Alone of creatures it swiftly progresses without feet, fins, or wings. " There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not," said wise King Solomon; and the chief of them were 66 the way of an eagle in the air,... | |
 | 1879 - 434 pągines
...in this line adhered to the customary English poetical phraseology. t Compare Proverbs xxx. 18 — "There be three things which are too wonderful for me ; yea, four which I know not : 19. The way of an eagle in the air ; the way of a serpent upon a rock ; the way of a ship... | |
 | Rushton M. Dorman - 1881 - 422 pągines
...Alone of all creatures it swiftly progresses without feet, fins, or wings. Said wise King Solomon, ' There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not, and the chief of them are the way of an eagle, and the way of a serpent on a rock.' It... | |
 | Frédéric Louis Godet - 1882 - 522 pągines
...fitly spoken P." This enigmatical form re-appears also in proverbs of quite a different sort : — " There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four. . . ." These were, properly speaking, riddles of which the solution was left for a moment to the penetration... | |
 | William McClure Thomson - 1883 - 856 pągines
...There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough ;" and again, " There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not." The things thus associated are not always very remarkable, as in the following group :... | |
 | 1884 - 1068 pągines
...obey his mother, The ravens of 4 the valley shall pick it out, And the 'young eagles shall eat it. 18 t @ h1 I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in the air ; The way of a serpent upon a rock ; The way of a ship... | |
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