 | John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...mistress. 60 There be four things upon the earth which are little ; but they are exceedingly 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 iheir houses in the rot^j ; the locusts have no ^?ȣ,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...getteth understanding. 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 no king,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...that when Solomon said ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise,'" and again ' The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer,''' — he -was but doubtfully correct ; while Virgil," Horace/ and Milton.s' who all three speak of the... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...mistress. 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27 The locusts have... | |
 | Cotton Mather - Natural theology - 1815 - 378 pages
...weather. Another of these providers is the ant, whereof the wise man says, they are exceeding wise ; a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. Sir Edward King having been curious in examining their 'generation, wonders to find them lying in multitudes... | |
 | James Plumptre - Animal welfare - 1816 - 98 pages
...tvise? lie replies: There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer, and they teach us to prepare against a time of adversity ; The conies, or Arabian mice, are but a feeble... | |
 | Asia - 1818 - 762 pages
...literary men, was unproductive, if not useless. Agur, in his prayer, Proverbs xxx, v. 25, says : " The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ;" and the laws of nature point out to us, with St. Paul, who himself worked and gained his livelihood... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...mistress. 24 There be four things ivhich are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 ɍ l ɍ v ɍ Ȇځ 8 ܻ ; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27 The locusts have... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1819 - 538 pages
...mistress. 24 There are four thiugs which are little upon the earth ; But they are exceeding wise: 26 The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their meat in the summer. 26 The conies are a people not strong, Yet they make their houses in the rocks. 27 The locusts have... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...blush in the cheeks of many who boast of the dignity of their rank in the scale of creatures. Ver. 25. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. The strength of ants has been admired by wise men, but their wisdom and industry make them strong ;... | |
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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... 
