| 1849 - 1188 pages
...lost to the world — " He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. He spake of trees, from the cedar- tree that is in...spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things and of fishes." A moralist, a poet, a philosopher, a historian, a botanist, a master in the... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1857 - 302 pages
...? Yes : five or six hundred years before Pythagoras, Solomon " spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth...spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." (1 Kings, iv. 33.) Natural History therefore was cultivated in the Holy Land,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...exquisite skill in natural philosophy and medicine; for ' He spake of trees,' or plants, ' from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth...spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.' He was well versed in mathematics; for it is said, ' Solomon's wisdom excelled... | |
| Archibald Alexander - 1831 - 478 pages
...three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon even unto the hyssop, that springeth out...spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." All these productions, it is acknowledged, have perished. Again it is said... | |
| John Leonard Knapp - 1831 - 330 pages
...possessing any virtue, is by that great man Sir Francis Bacon,"who investigated nature from the " cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of fishes, and of creeping things," in his history of " Life and Death," written, probably,... | |
| Mary W. Howland - 1831 - 302 pages
...thousand proverbs, and his so'ngs were a thousand and five. Did he study the works of God ? Solomon spake of trees, from the cedar tree that. is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. Did he speak of the animals too ? He spake of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and... | |
| 1831 - 930 pages
...thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and Sve. 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree , Richardson and Lord, Lincoln and Edmands, Crocker and Brewster, Munroe and Francis, pi beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 34 And there came of all people to hear... | |
| John Leonard Knapp - 1831 - 326 pages
...is by that great man Sir Francis Bacon, who investigated nature from the "cedar that is in liebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of fishes, and of creeping things," in his history of " Life and Death," written, probably,... | |
| 1832 - 670 pages
...knowledge to Solomon, the wise king of Israel ; though it is said concerning that prodigy of wisdom, that " he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in...springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and ot fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." 1 Kings iv, 33. The wise king of Israel attained his... | |
| Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pages
...three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out...spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes." All these productions, it is acknowledged, have perished. Again it is said... | |
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