 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...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...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs. The voice of nature, and the voice... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...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...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world, we have been told,... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...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 the turtle...the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power! Why, then, should they say... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1803 - 420 pages
...reason, they are guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle,...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... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - Agriculture - 1803 - 590 pages
...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 pages
...(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...coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Tell me, ye sages,, who pretend to penetrate mto the secrets of nature, how the bee can traverse the... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...horse rusheth into the f battle, without conaidcring or fearing his clanger. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle...crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; they return in the summer to their former abodes ; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 562 pages
...creatures, both for their actions and their use ! The stork in the heaven, saith thy prophet Jeremy, knmceth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; Jer. viii. 1. Who have seen the stork *, before the calends of August; or a swallow, in the winter?... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...tomed periods.* They are, indeed, beautifully and wisely directed, — ' Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and...and the swallow, observe the time of their coming.' It is evident, that of all natural ngents climate is the most powerful in changing and modifying the... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...done ? everyone turned to -his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle,...coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. i .- I!'-. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us ? Lo, certainly in vain made... | |
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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. 
