 | William Preston Johnston - Generals - 1878 - 806 pages
...All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. And again : I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.2 And a greater Son of David answered the painful and perplexing question by a reply that reaches... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - Bible - 1881 - 312 pages
...man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Eccles. x. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Eccles. iii. 13. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour,... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - Bible - 1881 - 306 pages
...man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Eccles. x. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Eccles. iii. 13. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour,... | |
 | English literature - 1882 - 614 pages
...anywhere, was to be found in Oxford everywhere. I was reminded forcibly of a verse in Ecclesiastes which says, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth ; " that is to say, in its application to Oxford as I first saw it some thirty years ago, I saw tutors... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Sermons, English - 1882 - 782 pages
...soul. The Ishmael of the flesh mocks at the Isaac of the conscience, and is uureproved. Solomon said, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth," and the same may be seen in the little world within, where appetites rule and grander capacities are... | |
 | 1884 - 1068 pages
...which procecdeth from the ruler: (6) folly is set in great 'dignity, and the rich sit in low place. (7) I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the 2 rulers, and said (8) He that diggcth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh through a fence, serpent shall bite... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott - Bible - 1884 - 612 pages
...ruler: (6) folly is 1 Hcb..»i>/if«rt. set 3 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... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - Bible - 1884 - 604 pages
...30.37. 4 Hob., the matter of the. touffue. set 3 in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. (7> hat I (8> <• He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it ; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite... | |
 | Arthur Noel Malan - Christian life - 1885 - 170 pages
...a besieged city saved by the wisdom of a poor man, yet no man remembered that same poor man. He had seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Solomon's reflections upon the vanity of life are full of bitterness and disappointment. He even found... | |
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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. 
