 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have...  A Philosophical Dictionary - Pàgina 472per Voltaire - 1843Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 584 pàgines
...ouraelvea in proper speech a locust ; as in the diet of John Baptist, and in our translation, " the locusta have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands."* Again, between the cicada and that we call a grasshopper, the differences are very many, as may be... | |
 | John Wroe - 1852 - 406 pàgines
...a man, as they know the way of a serpent upon a rock. (Isa. ii. 22 ; Prov. xxx. 19.) Question. — "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." Prov. xxx. 28. Answer. — The spider is set as a figure of Satan, it buildeth houses in the entrances... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...meat in the summer ; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them "by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. 29 There be three thinys which... | |
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1854 - 473 pàgines
...they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make their houses in the rocks ; the locusts have no king, yet' go they forth...taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." From the same source we learn that, on the first Sabbath of his ministry in Boston, September 30, 1827,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1854 - 916 pàgines
...prepare their meat in the eiimrmr ; the conies are buta feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider tnkefh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. There be three things which go welt, yea. four... | |
 | 1845 - 392 pàgines
...sting at the end of the tale," for " death is in the power of the tongue," Prov. xviii. 21. III. " The LOCUSTS have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands," Prov. xxx. 27. They come from Ethiopia, which has been called the "cradle of locusts." Their "slaughter... | |
 | William Graeme Rhind - 1855 - 384 pàgines
...prepare their meat in the summer. The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. The locusts have no king, yet go they forth...taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." This is, doubtless, given to us for instruction, as well as the previous passage. The ant in summer... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - 1855 - 736 pàgines
...are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands. The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." If we study the polity of any of these " exceeding wise" people, we can attain to a prophetic vision... | |
 | John Kitto - 1856 - 750 pàgines
...meat in the summer ; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27 8 : : : S 0 21by bands ; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. 29 IT There be three... | |
 | 1857 - 474 pàgines
...conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; the locusts have no kiiig, yet go they forth all of them by bands ; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces.— PEOVEEBS xxx, 24-28. DEAE CHILDREN, — I should like you all to be very wise. Wisdom... | |
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