| William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1843 - 314 pages
...error which proceedeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. [Jeremiah ix. 23.] That 1 am the Lord which exercise loving-kmdness, Judgement, and righteousness in... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1844 - 662 pages
...I am caught as fishes in the net." " We are all of us to be caught as fishes in the net." CHAP. x. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. — Verse 7. In all ages and nations, we read or hear of complaints against those who have arisen from... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - Bible - 1845 - 494 pages
...they made a merry ringing noise." — lasr & MANGLES, p. 241. RIDING, A TOKEN OF RANK. ECCLKS. x. 7. " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. To walk about on foot, is an act of very great humility in Persian estimation. Walking is a part of... | |
| Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...princes into places of 6 d Folly is set 4 in great dignity, and AM 3027. the rich sit in low place. ! L 7 I have seen servants • upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. 8 f He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.... | |
| 1846 - 512 pages
...7. " There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which procecdeth from the ruler : Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants open the earth." What great... | |
| Elizabeth Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1849 - 390 pages
...Lamentable times," say our divines! Solomon had adopted the same mode of speaking as Isaiah, when he said, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth," Ecc. x. 7. Now, Solomon did not intend to convey the idea, that those who occupied the place of servants... | |
| Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...done under the sun, because, though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it" (x. 7) — "I have SEEN servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." (He would see it now, if he were alive.) (ix. 11) — "I returned and SAW under the sun, that the race... | |
| Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun. As an error which proceedeth from the ruler. i Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. ' I have seen servants upon horses, And princes walking as servants upon the earth. 8 He that... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...from the ruler. ' I have seen servants upon horses, And princes walking as servants upon the earth. 6 Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; 9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith... | |
| Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun. As an error which proceedeth from the ruler. « Folly is set in great dignity, And the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, And princes walking as servants upon the earth. s He that... | |
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