 | Abraham Belais - Bible - 1850 - 84 pages
...(Medrash Rabbah, Koheleth). Hence the words of our text— " If the spirit of the ruler," &c. 6, 7 "Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low palaces. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." Pride and... | |
 | Samuel Martin - Hours of labor - 1850 - 74 pages
...saith, " 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. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.1'* Then follows... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun. As an error which procecdeth from the ruler. c 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. •* He... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...by whosoever will look about him : ' Folly is tet by great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.' The only way to obviate this state of things is, to follow the counsel of Christ, and to sit first... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...which proceedeth 'from the ruler : 6 Folly is set 4 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. 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.... | |
 | George Bush - 1854 - 694 pages
...with the dignity of the master. These statements impart great force to the remark of the wise man : " I have seen ' servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."—PAXTON. Ver. 16. And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold ; six hundred shekels... | |
 | Religion - 1855 - 424 pages
...this evil ; and under a very lively, graphic picturing, has sent a wise man's observation down to us: "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the "earth."* Which mav be paraphrased thus: I have seen things very much bottom-side up. The progress of ages has... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1856 - 750 pages
...which proceedeth 'from the ruler : 6 Folly is set 4in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 up my hands in 8 "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.... | |
 | England - 1856 - 422 pages
...mounted their horses. You might there have seen the accomplishment of the prophecy of the Preacher, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." [Eccl. x. 7.] When all these rascally fellows came to Edward, well armed, and riding upon the horses... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 420 pages
...mounted their horses. You might there have seen the accomplishment of the prophecy of the Preacher, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." [Eccl. x. 7.] When all these rascally fellows came to Edward, well armed, and riding upon the horses... | |
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 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. 
