 | William Sewell - Christian ethics - 1840 - 446 pages
...understanding exceeding much, and largeness •of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the...the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.... And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees,... | |
 | 1842 - 570 pages
...the fine arts, contributed to the prosperity of his people. "His wisdom," saith the Holy Scriptures, "excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east...Ezrahite, and Heman and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahal; and his fame was in all the nations round about; and he spake of trees from the cedar tree that... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - Bee culture - 1842 - 434 pages
...know. He knew more than King Solomon himself. The wisdom of Solomon is thus spoken of in the Bible: — "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...sand that is on the sea shore. And Solomon's wisdom * Gen. i. 27—31. 248 THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. , excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 556 pages
...said of Solomon, that the largeness of his heart was equal to the capacity and strength of his mind. "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore." These were uncommon instances of the progress of the human mind and human heart ; yet they are just... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 pages
...said of Solomon, that the largeness of his heart was equal to the capacity and strength of his mind. "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore." These were uncommon instances of the progress of the human mind and human heart; yet they are, just... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 530 pages
...of his superior talents, and of the extensively useful purposes to which he applied them. He says, " God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And he spake three thousand proverbs ; and his songs were a thousand and five." Though many of his songs... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 514 pages
...of his superior talents, and of the extensively useful purposes to which he applied them. He says, " God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And he spake three thousand proverbs ; and his songs were a thousand and five." Though many of his songs... | |
 | John Campbell - Eromanga (Vanuatu) - 1842 - 562 pages
...literature, a man very much to your lordship's liking. His biographer thus delineates his character: — "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all... | |
 | 1843 - 1068 pages
...principally in having wisdom given to him — the gift of wisdom directly from God, (see 1 Kings iii. 4.) " ' God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding...all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all meu And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which... | |
 | Horace Hooker - Bible - 1843 - 408 pages
...Scriptures seem to multiply and exhaust tha powers of language on this topic. We read again, that " Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children...Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol," the most eminent sages of those times ; "and his fame was in all nations round ahout. And he spake... | |
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And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. 
