 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1800 - 308 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 crane,...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 էջ
...to return;" they are even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane...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 - 1803 - 420 էջ
...guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane,...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 - 1803 - 590 էջ
...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.... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 էջ
...stork in the heavens knoweth her appointU "edtim:; and the turtle, the crant, and the swallew observ^ " the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment; "of the Lord." The moral corruption of mankind Etill further' appears, that throughout all generations, they have... | |
 | 1898 - 584 էջ
...men from the earliest times. The prophet Jeremiah observed that ' the stork in the heaven ' knoweth her appointed times ; and the 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,... | |
 | 1810 - 544 էջ
...(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 - 1805 - 474 էջ
...into the 7 battle, without considering or fearing his danger. 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 ; 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 էջ
...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?... | |
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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. 
