 | Thomas Whittemore - 1848 - 400 pàgines
...king. — This was necessary to be said, because locusts in general have no king. See Prov. xxx. 27 : " The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bauds/' The revelator was obliged, therefore, (o add, that the forces of which he spoke, under the... | |
 | Henry Bacon - 1849 - 232 pàgines
...: 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 spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. From the little ant let us learn forecast and industry ; from the cony, with soft and... | |
 | Martyn Paine - 1849 - 258 pàgines
...revealed,) after the system of ascendble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks: The locustt have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands...: The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces." Proverbi, xxx., 24—28. 146 THE SOUL AND INSTINCT. ing analogies among existences... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - 698 pàgines
...and the God of nature and providence gives food to them all. " The conies," saith Solomon, " are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks."—" The trees of the Lord are full of sap," says the Psalmist, " the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted;... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pàgines
...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...taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces;" so many small things have produced powerful results, and done something to advance the nobler objects... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pàgines
...position and integrity, there may yet bo a common organization for resistance to error which all oppose, " The locusts have no king ; yet go they forth, all of them, by bands." " Nowhere," says Mr. Bridges, " is concord so important as in the Church. Never can she prosper except... | |
 | John Hooper - 1850 - 598 pàgines
...These locusts are said to have a king over them ; prov. *«. but we read in the book of Proverbs that " the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands." This apparent inconsistency, shows that these locust teachers, although they have no visible king or... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1851 - 702 pàgines
...a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble flock, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; the locusts...taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces." Ye have the wisdom of the ants, to provide your meat in summer ; of the conies, to build in the Rock... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - 1851 - 516 pàgines
...are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands. The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces." If we study the polity of any of these "exceeding wise" people, we can attain to a prophetic vision... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1851 - 480 pàgines
...contemporary, both by word and example. "Thus," he proceeds to say, " was fulfilled the saying of Solomon — ' The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.' These locusts had not soared on deeds of goodness so long as they remain stiffened and frozen in their... | |
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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... 
