 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 - 1835 - 526 pages
...and by ourselves in proper speech a locust ; as in the diet of John Baptist, and in our translation, "the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands." * Again, between the cicada and that we call a grasshopper, the differences are very many, as may be... | |
 | 1835 - 802 pages
...animals and insects, as you may learn from his beautiful allusion to the ants. " The locusts," says he, " have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands," (Prov. xxx. 27) : — but the most magnificent description of these invaders, and devastators of countries,... | |
 | 1836 - 646 pages
...and from Tzarphath, and from Sphard, and from England, and Scotland, and Italy, much people, which for multitude could not be numbered, men and women,...no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.' up against them—people of a fierce countenance, that have no respect to the persons of the old, neither... | |
 | 1836 - 636 pages
...and from Tzarphfth, and from Sphard, and from England, and Scotland, and Italy, much people, which for multitude could not be numbered, men and women,...no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.' " That year was a year of sorrow for Jacob ; and they were given over to plunder in the countries of... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1836 - 570 pages
...exertion in .* Rabbi Joseph, describing this tumultuous host, appropriately quotes Prov. xxx. 27- " The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands." t This persecution is very pathetically described in the Chronicles of Rabbi Joseph, from which, as... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 688 pages
...or many, and yet composing a whole — a unit — "the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace." "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands" Prov. 30 : 27. " Men shall worship him (the Lord,) every one from his place." Zeph. 2:11. By an invisible... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...meat in the summer ; 2G The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 , and his countenance fell. And the LOKD said unto 7 Cain, Why art 28 The spider takcth hold with her hands, And is in kings' palaces. 29 There be three tiling which... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, throughout Egypt." We are told that " the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands," Prov. xxx. 27. The voracity with which they eat up every thing green and tender renders a visit from... | |
 | Calvin Ellis Stowe - 1839 - 138 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 ia in kings' palaces. There be three things which go well,... | |
 | 1839 - 1060 pages
...in the summer ; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27. The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them f by bands ; 28 The spider taketh hold her hands, and is in king's palaces. 29 There be three things... | |
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