 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...and Melampus claimed to possess it. VOL, VI. — 24 Solomon, who had wisdom exceeding much, and spake of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes, is reported to have understood the meaning of every bird's song. Pliny even gives, in his Natural History,... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture, Maine. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1873 - 516 pages
...the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; also of beasts and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes." (1 Kings, 4:33.) The lesson taught in the command to Adam has never been heeded by the laborer. He... | |
 | Robert Morris - History - 1860 - 368 pages
...and he spoke 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." f Nor were these requirements as so much * The word Solomon signifies»peaee or peaceful. 11 Kings... | |
 | Bee culture - 1861 - 350 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 day,"... | |
 | rev. Frederick Calder - 1862 - 342 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." After Solomon had performed his duty in building a house for God, he determined to build himself a... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1865 - 644 pages
...tree of ' Lebanon to the slender caperplant that springs out of the ' crevice of the wall. He spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.' We must look at him as the first great naturalist of the world, in the midst of the strange animals... | |
 | John Sherer (Freemason.) - 1866 - 276 pages
...and he spoke 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/' This is all summed up in this passage: "God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1866 - 698 pages
...cedar-tree of "Lebanon to the slender caper-plant that springs out " of the crevice of the wall. He spake also of beasts, " and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes." We must look at him as the first great naturalist of the world, in the midst of the strange animals... | |
 | S. H. - God - 1866 - 84 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. But notwithstanding all his knowledge it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away... | |
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1868 - 468 pages
...trees from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall, and of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes" (1 Kings, iv., 33), if they were correct treatises then, and stated the true laws in his time in the... | |
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And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, 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,... 
