| William Fleming - 1838 - 646 páginas
...the range of the mountains his pasture," and the horse, whose " neci is clothed with thunder," who " smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shoutmg." We are told of the peacock's " goodly wings" — of the ostrich, " which leaveth her eggs... | |
| David Mushet - 1839 - 358 páginas
...Moloch, who now are leagued against him, wear out his spirit by degrees of pain, and kill by inches.— " He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting."— In the full excitement of his faculties, which makes him dread no noise, nor the most... | |
| David Mushet - 1839 - 350 páginas
...who now are leagued against him, wear out his spirit by degrees of pain, and kill by inches. — " He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." — In the full excitement of his faculties, which makes him dread no noise, nor the most... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1839 - 418 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, ' Ha ! ha !' and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." Of the ass, a kindred animal, Dr. Macculloch justly observes, that, through a precision... | |
| Thomas Bingley - 1839 - 324 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ; neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting" (Job, xxxix. 19—25). One or two other passages in the sacred writings, in which the horse... | |
| John Bunyan - 1839 - 524 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets. Ha, ha ! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thundering of the captains, and the shouting."8 But for such footmen as thee and I are, let us never... | |
| James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 614 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. "He saith among the trumpets Ha, Ha, and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting."* Again Homer, in the 6th book of the Iliad, has the following beautiful simile : The wanton... | |
| Natural history - 1840 - 180 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting," ver. 21—25. The Wild Horse, the origin, as is supposed, of the domesticated race, abounds... | |
| Nathan Covington Brooks - 1840 - 56 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha! ha! and he smelleth...battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." "Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook, or his tongue with a chord which thou lettest... | |
| Ferdinand freiherr von Geramb - 1840 - 790 páginas
...swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage ; neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." In Arabia there are but two breeds of horses : the kadichi, which are the common sort ;... | |
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