| Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 páginas
...know, my people doth not confider."f " Yea, the ftork in the heaven," faith God by another prophet, " knoweth her appointed times : and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwallow obferve the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." J Thus,... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1799 - 200 páginas
...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1800 - 308 páginas
...exactly the time when they ought to return. " The stork in the heavens knoweth her appoint" ed time ; and: the turtle,- and the crane,. and the " swallow, observe the time of their .coming." — Undoubtedly the temperature of the air,. in respect to heat and cold, and the natural inclination... | |
| 1806 - 504 páginas
...aright; if man repents of his wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth,... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 páginas
...by the abufe of it men make themfelves worfe v/orfe than the beafts: Jer. viii. 7. "Yea, the ftork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times : and the turtle, and the crane, and the fwailow, obferve the time of their coming : but my people know not the judgement of the Lord." Men's... | |
| Thomas Smith - 1803 - 420 páginas
...compass, nor reason, they are guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,...and the swallow observe the time of their coming*." AB the migration of birds constitutes a very curious article of natural history, our readers probably... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 584 páginas
...hold fast deceit, they refuse to return;" they are even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and...and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power!... | |
| 1898 - 584 páginas
...although it has attracted the notice of men from the earliest times. The prophet Jeremiah observed that ' the stork in the heaven ' knoweth her appointed times...turtle and the crane ' and the swallow observe the timo of their coaling.' Every spring the London ornithologist looks out for the coming of the migrants,... | |
| Alexander Hunter - 1803 - 590 páginas
...excellent lefson to the rational. In the sacred history we are told, that the Slork in the heavens knmceth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their comings and we are reminded that the leafing of the fig-tree usually determines the approach of summer.... | |
| 1810 - 544 páginas
...(ht/Oreator and the littleness of man. Yea, the stork iu the Heavens knoweih her appointed times>; and (he turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Tell me, ye sages,, who pretend to penetrate mto the... | |
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