| The Bible Christian VOLUME VI.-Third Series - 1844 - 448 pages
...favoured "spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes." A course of instruction on the several topics now indicated, would form a good, wholesome, invigorating... | |
| Theology - 1848 - 620 pages
...thrifty bee is never once set before us as a pattern in the Bible. The wise King, indeed, who " spake of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes," has referred the sluggard and the distrustful to the early hours, and the " working while it is yet... | |
| Protestantism - 1846 - 644 pages
...from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake r a long time; The next distinguished natural historian whose fame has reached us, is Aristotle, who lived above three... | |
| Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1847 - 456 pages
...have made to natural philosophy, — for it is recorded that one of them, Solomon, spake of trees, of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes, (1 Kings iv. 33.) — have not been preserved, as being uninspired. No advance, therefore, in the knowledge... | |
| 1848 - 606 pages
...cover the earth, " speak of trees, from the cedar tree to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes ;" of every nation under the sun, their languages, manners, and forms of government ; — yet, amidst... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 324 pages
...thrifty bee is never once set before us as a pattern in the Bible. The Wise King indeed, " who spake of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes, " has referred the sluggard and the distrustful to the early hours, and the " working while it is yet... | |
| Thomas James - 1852 - 114 pages
...thrifty bee is never once set before us as a pattern in the Bible. The Wise King indeed, who " spake of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes," has referred the sluggard and the distrustful to the early hours, and the " working while it is yet... | |
| Church and the world - 1853 - 656 pages
...from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things and of fishes." Tradition also assigns him power over demons. In Midrash Rabba, Gen. <§> 30, it is said ; " How many... | |
| Joseph Dixon - Bible - 1853 - 538 pages
...from the cedar, that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall ; and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes." (3 Kings iv. 33.) In their hands, the scripture is made to teach philosophy — according to their... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 1034 pages
...oxen in far-gone primeval tunes, and we have scattered passages which prove that zoology, a study ' of beasts and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes,' was not unattended to. The delineations of animals on the monuments of ancient Egypt prove that great... | |
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