 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...mistress. 24 There be four thinijs 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
.../—As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. PSALM ciii. ANT. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. ANSWER. By the eternal God! whose name and power Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask ! 2 HENRY... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - English fiction - 1844 - 388 pages
...fertile regions." "True, dear Reginald," she replied, "therefore did the wise man say in days of old, ' 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.' " A little further onward,... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
...as it is, Solomon speaks of it as one of the four things upon earth which are exceeding wise : — ' The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their meat in the summer.' Prov. xxx. 25. For its industry he selects it to impart a fine reproof to the slothful : — ' Go to... | |
 | William Graeme Rhind - Christian life - 1844 - 456 pages
...passage : — " 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,... | |
 | Isaac Williams, Antoine SUCQUET - Emblem Books, English - 1845 - 438 pages
...all life I love ? 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,... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...been obtruded into the text at an early period as it is referred to by Clemens of Alexandria. tints are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." The ceaseless motion which pervades all nature is a visible and ever-present protest against indolence.... | |
 | John Kentish - Bible - 1846 - 444 pages
...948, where, as the connection shows, O'A&JJ adtxo; is, " deceitful, uncertain wealth." VI. G—.9, compared with xxx. 25. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard,...the summer."] On the former of these texts, Poole observes" that " in winter ants stir not out of their holes." Solomon contents himself with saying... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Bible - 1847 - 574 pages
...thing*, which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : (wise, made wise, Marg.) 25. The ants are a people not strong ; yet they prepare their meat in the summer : 26. The conies are bul a feeble folk ; yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27. The locusts... | |
 | Henry Bacon - Hymns - 1849 - 232 pages
...Prov. m. 24—28. * There he 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,... | |
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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... 
