 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...  Solomon's Little People: A Story about the Ants - Page 3by James Crowther - 1882 - 189 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | William Graeme Rhind - Christian life - 1844 - 456 pages
...force of the divine injunction. In Prov. xxx. 24 — 28, there is another most striking passage : — " There be four things which are little upon the earth,...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,... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1843 - 402 pages
...creature, except man, that has constructed a door turning on hinges. Never give up a good Thing. ' THERE be four things which are little upon the earth,...the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare,' &c. Prov. 30. "There was no feature more remarkable in the character of Timour* than his extraordinary... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
...crossing our path. Diminutive 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...mistress. 24 There be four things ichich arc little upon the earth, but they are ex ceedingwise: 26 the king in the feast which was jn the seventh month. 4 And all ti.:e suiT.mer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; 27 The... | |
 | Isaac Williams, Antoine SUCQUET - Emblem Books, English - 1845 - 438 pages
...the true Light ? Where length of days, but in Thee, Who art my Life, Whom beyond all life I love ? There be four things which are little upon the earth,...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.... | |
 | Robert Hasell Newell - Animals - 1845 - 216 pages
...prorideth her meat in sommer, and gathereth her food in the harrost." — Proeerbs, ri. 6, 7, 8. " The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in sommer." — Ch. xxx. r. 24. as a strong confirmation of the aneient opinion : it can, however, relate... | |
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