 | Richard Green Moulton - 1898 - 234 pągines
...number sonnet : 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...the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maid. It must be remembered, moreover, that proverbs suffer more than any other kind of literature... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1898 - 312 pągines
...the rest conforms. Thtre 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...the midst of the sea ; And the way of a Man with a Maid. The examples quoted in the present volume are different. They may be called Tree Sonnets': the... | |
 | 1898 - 422 pągines
...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...the midst of the sea ; and the way of a man with a maid. Such is the way of an adulterous woman ; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, "I have... | |
 | Orville James Nave - 1900 - 1664 pągines
...transgressors among men. Prov. 29:3. He that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance. Prov. 30:18. earth shall worship him, whose names are not written...slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 17:8. in the wav of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have dune no wickedness.... | |
 | California. State Board of Horticulture - 1900 - 272 pągines
...is written — "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...the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maid."— PROVERBS. To these I would add the way of trade on the sea, for there appears to be no known... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 370 pągines
...sayeth '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...the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. "There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. The ants... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1901 - 392 pągines
...all others : — 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...the midst of the sea; And the way of a Man with a Maid. Of course the wise men heap scorn upon the sluggard : who buries his hand in the dish, too lazy... | |
 | RICHARD G. MOULTON - 1901 - 432 pągines
...all others : — 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...the midst of the sea; And the way of a Man with a Maid. Of course the wise men heap scorn upon the sluggard: who buries his hand in the dish, too lazy... | |
 | Alfred Edward Thomas Watson - 1902 - 766 pągines
...declared that : ' There he 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...the midst of the sea ; and the way of a man with a maid ;' and, surely, of the four ' the way of a ship in the midst of the sea' is the most wonderful.... | |
 | Harry Leon Wilson - 1902 - 550 pągines
...manner of Mr. Kipling, " 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...the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid." Why he neglected to include the way of a maid with a man is not at once apparent. His unusual... | |
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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. 
