 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
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...her meat in the summer, and gathereth. her food in the harvest. — Proverbs vi. 6, 7, 8. Again— The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. — Proverbt xxx. 25. The reading of the Vulgate is similar in meaning to the authorised version, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...winterd. ii. 4. " " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise." — Prov. vi. 6. " The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." — Prov. xxx. 25. 34. A pure appeal seeks to the heart, Which, once corrupted, takes the worser part.... | |
 | Four little wise ones - Ants - 1853 - 456 pages
...book, that I intend to collect them, and give them to you to read all together. Proverbs xxx. 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... | |
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1854 - 473 pages
...of analogy to set them forth, as, for instance, Prov. 30 : 24-5-6-7-8, preached January 20, 1828 : " 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 their houses in the rocks ; the locusts have no king,... | |
 | 1853 - 330 pages
...the inspired writers informs us that the animal creation are endowed with great wisdom. He says, " 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,... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...sinncth against me wrongcth his own soul: All they that hate me love death. EXAMPLES OF WISDOM 3U 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... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...meat; 23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. 24 oned with the priests and the Lévites concerning the heaps. 10 And Azariah 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but... | |
 | Adams - Science - 1992 - 356 pages
...were in their sight. Proverbs 6:6: Go to the ant thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 30:25: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. 30:27: The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 30:28: The spider taketh hold... | |
 | John Goldthwaite - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 397 pages
...to the Ten Commandments, the priestly scribes did leave some of the make-believe in place, however: 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,... | |
 | Gregory McNamee - Animals in literature - 1996 - 196 pages
...laboratory-bred whitewinged sphinx moths and a ban on pesticides everywhere in the Sonoran Desert. Tarantula There be four things which are little upon the earth,...people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in summer; The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks; The locusts have... | |
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