 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...  Publications - Page 301835Full view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1658 - 404 pages
...felvcs in proper fpeech a Locuft ^ as in the diet of John Haptift, and in our Tranilation, the Locuft s have no King, yet go they forth all of them by bands. Again, Between the Cicada and .that we call a Graihopper, che differences are very many, as may be... | |
 | John Hildrop - 1742 - 198 pages
...the Summer, The Conies are but a feeble Folk, yet they make their Haufes in the Rocks. The Locufts have no King, yet go they forth all of them by Bands. The Spider taketh hold with her Hands, and is in King's Palaces. Holy Job fuppofes the fame thing,... | |
 | John Hildrop - 1754 - 308 pages
...the Summer. The Conies are but a feeble Folk, yet they make their Houfes in the Rocks. The Locufts have no King, yet go they forth all of them by Bands. The Spider taketh hold with her Hands, and is in Kings Palaces. Holy yob fuppofes thefameThing, that... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 526 pages
...her miftrefs :' intimating, that both become imperious and tyrannical. Obferv. XXVI. " The loctifts have no king : yet go they forth all of them by bands. Margin, for by bands, has gathered together, ch. xxx. ,27." Dr. Hunt obferves, that the original may... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...fummer : 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houfes in the rocks ; 27 The locufts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands ; 28 The fpider taketh hold with her handsj and is iit kings' palaces* 29 fl There be three thingt... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 pages
...the fummer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houfes in the rocks ; the locufts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands ; the fpider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings palaces."! May God open our eyes, and difpofe... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...the fummer ; the conies are but a feeble flock, yet make they their houfes in the rocks ; the locufts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands ; the fpider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings palaces." Ye have the wifdom of the ants,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...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 all of them by bands; The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings palaces. There is that speaketh like the piercings... | |
 | Bryce Johnston, John Johnstone - 1807 - 540 pages
...them. In one thing they differ widely from locufls. " The locufts," as Agur obferves, Prov. xxx. 27. " have no king ; yet go they forth all of them * by bands." But thofe, reprefented in thii hieroglyphic by locufts for their number, had a king over them. However... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1810 - 418 pages
...flee away, and their place is not known, &c. The author of the book of Proverbs takes notice, that the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands, ch. xxx. ver. 27. These bands are very formidable, while they survive ; and even in their dissolution... | |
| |
