 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...  Sierra Club Bulletin - Página 361908Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1854 - 473 páginas
...of analogy to set them forth, as, for instance, Prov. 30 : 24-5-6-7-8, preached January 20, 1828 : " 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... | |
 | 1856 - 678 páginas
...the character given of them in holy Scripture, where the wise king places them at the head of the " four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise." * ''O LOUD, how manifold are Thy works .' in wisdom hast Thou made them all : the earth is full of... | |
 | William Graeme Rhind - 1855 - 384 páginas
...the force of the divine injunction. In Prov. xxx. 24-28, there is another most striking passage : " There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they 29* are exceeding wise. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1856 - 790 páginas
...the humbler sort of people by his talk about little things. In his twenty-fourth verse, he says: — "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." You that cannot do very much,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1856 - 750 páginas
...; 23 For an odious \ooman when she is married ; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. 24 H : 25 ""The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; 26 The conies... | |
 | Horace, A. J. Macleane - 1856 - 604 páginas
...unde niger! (.пи - Auster Nascitur, et pluvio contristat frigore caelum." The ant is one of the " four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise," — the ants, the conies, the locusts, and the spiders. (Prov. xxx. 24, sqq.) 39. ignis, mare,ferrum,] This... | |
 | Horace - 1856 - 640 páginas
...279) : "undo nigerrimus Auster Nascitur, et pluvio contristat frigoro caelum." The ant is one of the " four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise," — the ants, the conies, the locusts, and the spiders. (Prov. xxx. 24, sqq.) 39. ignis, mare,femm>,] This... | |
 | 1856 - 280 páginas
...perpetual, because Divine. Meantime, our duty is before us ; and here the text recurs to mind: There bf four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. The resources and policy of comparative weakness are those which we must imitate in fulfilling our proper... | |
 | 1856 - 278 páginas
...perpetual, because Divine. Meantime, our duty is before us j and here the text recurs to mind : There lit four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding uriae. The resources and policy of comparative weakness are those which we must imitate in fulfilling... | |
 | 1857 - 474 páginas
...ways, seeing " her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Amen. LITTLE AND WISE. 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 ; tho conies are but a feeble... | |
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