 | Thomas Tyler - 1874 - 176 էջ
...king (viii. 2 — 4), and to be yielding to him when he is angry (x. 4), and read of Koheleth's having seen " servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth " (x. 7), we seem rather to have the words of a private subject than of a monarch. It is perhaps yet... | |
 | Thomas Tyler - 1874 - 176 էջ
...king (viii. 2 — 4), and to be yielding to him when he is angry (x. 4), and read of Koheleth's having seen " servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth " (x. 7), we seem rather to have the words of a private subject than of a monarch. It is perhaps yet... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1875 - 836 էջ
...an error that cometh from the ruler. Folly is set in great dignity, and the wise sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth/ (Eccles. x. 5-7.) So Professor Huxley said recently in his inaugtiral address at the Midland Institute... | |
 | 1875 - 1070 էջ
...as an error that cometh from the ruler. Folly is set ingreat dignity, and the wise sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking; as servants upon the earth/ (Eccles. x. 5-7.) So ProfessorHuxley said recently in his inaugural address at the Midland Institute... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 էջ
...visited Cleopatra, the voluptuous Queen of Egypt, the awning of her galley was covered with gold. 2 "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."- Ecclesiastes X. Why should I fret, and at my lot repine, When slaves around, — and to themselves,... | |
 | John Vickers (author of The new Koran.) - 1878 - 258 էջ
...an error that cometh from the ruler. Folly is set in great dignity, and the wise sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." (Eccles. x. 5 — 7.) So Professor Huxley, noticing the continuance of this evil, said recently, in... | |
 | Henry K. Wood - 1878 - 308 էջ
...a King's daughter, though she has not yet got on her fine clothes." " I have seen," said Solomon, " I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." The masquerade still continues. As one looks around, the wicked are often observed to be prosperous... | |
 | William Preston Johnston - 1878 - 806 էջ
...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... | |
 | John Charles Ryle - 1879 - 392 էջ
...hands. SOLOMON tells us in the book of Ecclesiastes, that one evil he has seen under the sun, is when " folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place." (Eccles. x. 6.) We can imagine no more complete illustration of his words than the state of... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 312 էջ
...iv. 22, 27, v. 18). The unequal distribution of honours seemed to men as a blunder of Providence. 6. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place] For "great dignity," literally great heights. The "rich" here are those who by birth and station... | |
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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. 
